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Brighton Pavilion.

"The Pavilion occupies with its gardens about eleven acres and a half, and is a curious combination of domes, minarets, and cupolas, looking, according to Sidney Smith," as if the dome of St. Paul's had come to Brighton and pupped." Cobbett suggests that " a good idea of the building may be formed by placing the pointed half of a large turnip upon the middle of a board, with four smaller ones at the comer." Nor is this description exaggerated in its ridicule, and he who gazes upon the monstrous pile can well understand " the intensity," of Sir Walter Scott's feelings when he wrote to his friend Morritt, then residing at Brighton (1826) : " Set fire to the Chinese stables, and if it embrace the whole of the Pavilion, it will rid me of a great eyesore."" Extract from "Black's guide to the county of Sussex" (Open Library)

Address:
Brighton Pavilion,
4/5 Pavilion Buildings,
Brighton,
East Sussex BN1 1EE
Website: www.brighton-hove-rpml.org.uk

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