Buildings
The main building was designed by Charles Barry, who was later architect for the Houses of Parliament, and is still called the Barry Building. The foundation stone was laid on 16 March 1826 by the Earl of Egremont, and the hospital was opened on 11 June 1828 as the Sussex County Hospital. The Victoria Wing was added in 1839, and the Adelaide Wing in 1841. The Sussex County Hospital became the Royal Sussex County Hospital in about 1911.
On New Year's Day 1872, a fire broke out on the top floor of the Adelaide Wing of the hospital, in Ward 6. Initially this fire threatened to destroy the building, but the efforts of volunteer firefighters and a detachment of the 19th Hussars saved the building.
The Jubilee Building was added to the hospital in 1887, the Sussex Eye Hospital (one of local architect John Leopold Denman's many Neo-Georgian buildings) in 1935, and the Millennium Building in 2000. In 2005 the Audrey Emerton Building was opened by Baroness Emerton to accommodate clinical medical students of Brighton and Sussex Medical School. As of 2009 there is a proposal to demolish the Barry and Jubilee buildings as part of a £300m redevelopment scheme.
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