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Park Crescent, Brighton, the Glossary

Park Crescent is a mid-19th-century residential development in the Round Hill area of Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove.^[1]

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Crescents (architecture)
Grade II* listed buildings in Brighton and Hove

A23 road

The A23 road is a major road in the United Kingdom between London and Brighton, East Sussex, England.

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Amon Henry Wilds

Amon Henry Wilds (1784 or 1790 – 13 July 1857) was an English architect.

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An anta (pl. antæ, antae, or antas; Latin, possibly from ante, "before" or "in front of"), or sometimes parastas (pl. parastades), is a term in classical architecture describing the posts or pillars on either side of a doorway or entrance of a Greek temple – the slightly projecting piers which terminate the side walls (of the naos).

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Architrave

In classical architecture, an architrave (also called an epistyle) is the lintel or beam, typically made of wood or stone, that rests on the capitals of columns.

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Arnold Ruge

Arnold Ruge (13 September 1802 – 31 December 1880) was a German philosopher and political writer.

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Aviary

An aviary is a large enclosure for confining birds, although bats may also be considered for display.

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Bay (architecture)

In architecture, a bay is the space between architectural elements, or a recess or compartment.

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Brighton

Brighton is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the city of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England.

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Brighton and Hove

Brighton and Hove is a unitary authority with city status in East Sussex, England.

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Brighton Cricket Club

Brighton Cricket Club was based at Brighton, Sussex and was briefly a top-class team, playing seven matches between 1791 and 1814 which have been given first-class cricket status.

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Brighton Main Line

The Brighton Main Line is a railway line in southern England linking London to Brighton.

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Brighton railway station

Brighton railway station is the southern terminus of the Brighton Main Line, the western terminus of the East Coastway Line and the eastern terminus of the West Coastway Line in England, and the principal station serving the city of Brighton, East Sussex. Park Crescent, Brighton and Brighton railway station are Grade II* listed buildings in Brighton and Hove.

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Brighton trunk murders

The Brighton trunk murders were two murders linked to Brighton, England, in 1934.

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Chambranle

In architecture and joinery, the chambranle is the border, frame, or ornament, made of stone or wood, that is a component of the three sides round chamber doors, large windows, and chimneys.

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Chamfer

A chamfer is a transitional edge between two faces of an object.

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Cornice

In architecture, a cornice (from the Italian cornice meaning "ledge") is generally any horizontal decorative moulding that crowns a building or furniture element—for example, the cornice over a door or window, around the top edge of a pedestal, or along the top of an interior wall.

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Dormer

A dormer is a roofed structure, often containing a window, that projects vertically beyond the plane of a pitched roof.

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Eaves

The eaves are the edges of the roof which overhang the face of a wall and, normally, project beyond the side of a building.

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English Channel

The English Channel, also known as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Southern England from northern France.

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English Heritage

English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that manages over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places.

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Fanlight

A fanlight is a form of lunette window, often semicircular or semi-elliptical in shape, with glazing bars or tracery sets radiating out like an open fan.

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First-class cricket

First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket.

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Gable

A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches.

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George IV

George IV (George Augustus Frederick; 12 August 1762 – 26 June 1830) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 29 January 1820 until his death in 1830.

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Grade II* listed buildings in Brighton and Hove

There are 72 Grade II* listed buildings in the city of Brighton and Hove, England.

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Great storm of 1987

The great storm of 1987 was a violent extratropical cyclone that occurred on the night of 15–16 October, with hurricane-force winds causing casualties in the United Kingdom, France, and the Channel Islands as a severe depression in the Bay of Biscay moved northeast.

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Grotto

A grotto is a natural or artificial cave used by humans in both modern times and antiquity, and historically or prehistorically.

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Gutta

A gutta (Latin pl. guttae, "drops") is a small water-repelling, cone-shaped projection used near the top of the architrave of the Doric order in classical architecture.

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Hip roof

A hip roof, hip-roof or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope, with variants including tented roofs and others.

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Images of England

Images of England is an online photographic record of all the listed buildings in England at the date of February 2002.

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Italianate architecture

The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture.

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Lewes

Lewes is the county town of East Sussex, England.

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Lewes Road, Brighton

Lewes Road is a major road in the English seaside city of Brighton and Hove.

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Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and Anglican priest.

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Listed building

In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection.

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Lord of the manor

Lord of the manor is a title that, in Anglo-Saxon England and Norman England, referred to the landholder of a rural estate.

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Music hall

Music hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment that was most popular from the early Victorian era, beginning around 1850, through the Great War.

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Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett

William Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett, (6 September 1883 – 10 February 1962), was a British barrister, judge, politician and preacher who served as the deputy British judge during the Nuremberg Trials.

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North Laine

North Laine is a shopping and residential district of Brighton, on the English south coast.

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Pedestal

A pedestal or plinth is a support at the bottom of a statue, vase, column, or certain altars.

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Pediment

Pediments are a form of gable in classical architecture, usually of a triangular shape.

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Pier (architecture)

A pier, in architecture, is an upright support for a structure or superstructure such as an arch or bridge.

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Prince of Wales Ground

The Prince of Wales Ground, also known as Prince's Ground, in Brighton, Sussex was the venue for top-class cricket matches in the closing years of the 18th century.

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Regency architecture

Regency architecture encompasses classical buildings built in the United Kingdom during the Regency era in the early 19th century when George IV was Prince Regent, and also to earlier and later buildings following the same style.

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Round Hill, Brighton

Round Hill (sometimes spelt Roundhill) is an inner suburban area of Brighton, part of the coastal city of Brighton and Hove in England.

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Royal New Ground

The Royal New Ground, also known as "Box's Ground", in Brighton, Sussex was a venue for first-class cricket matches from 1814 to 1847.

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Rustication (architecture)

Two different styles of rustication in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi in Florence; smooth-faced above and rough-faced below Rustication is a range of masonry techniques used in classical architecture giving visible surfaces a finish texture that contrasts with smooth, squared-block masonry called ashlar.

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Sash window

A sash window or hung sash window is made of one or more movable panels, or "sashes".

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South Downs

The South Downs are a range of chalk hills in the south-eastern coastal counties of England that extends for about across the south-eastern coastal counties of England from the Itchen valley of Hampshire in the west to Beachy Head, in the Eastbourne Downland Estate, East Sussex, in the east.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Crescent,_Brighton

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Crescents (architecture)

Grade II* listed buildings in Brighton and Hove

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