page_title: Sussex
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Sussex / Culture / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: English: Royal Pavilion in Brighton, UK. I took this photo this morning, in between rain showers! It was a tiny bit wonky, but I tried to solve that with Gimp's rotate function, and trimmed the edges off. I also resized it, and magically it now fits onto my screen perfectly with wikipedia's layout.
context_page_description: Sussex, from the Old English Sūþsēaxe, is a historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English Channel, and divided for many purposes into the ceremonial counties of West Sussex and East Sussex. Brighton and Hove, though part of East Sussex, was made a unitary authority in 1997, and as such, is administered independently of the rest of East Sussex. Brighton and Hove was granted City status in 2000. Until then, Chichester was Sussex's only city.
  Sussex has three main geographic sub-regions, each oriented approximately east to west. In the southwest is the fertile and densely populated coastal plain. North of this are the rolling chalk hills of the South Downs, beyond which is the well-wooded Sussex Weald.
  The name derives from the Kingdom of Sussex, which was founded, according to legend, by Ælle of Sussex in AD 477. Around 827, it was absorbed into the kingdom of Wessex and subsequently into the kingdom of England. It was the home of some of Europe's earliest known humans, whose remains have been found at Boxgrove.
context_section_description: Sussex's building materials reflect its geology, being made of flint on and near the South Downs and sandstone in the Weald.  Brick is used across the county.
  Typically conservative and moderate, the architecture of Sussex also has elaborate and eccentric buildings rarely matched elsewhere in England including the Saxon Church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin, Sompting, Castle Goring, which has a front and rear of entirely different styles and Brighton's Indo-Saracenic Royal Pavilion.
caption: The Royal Pavilion, Brighton
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