John Nelson Goulty was an English Nonconformist Christian pastor. He is best known for his sermons against mandatory tithing to the Church of England and against colonial slavery. After early work at Nonconformist chapels in Godalming and Henley-on-Thames, he moved to Brighton where he became "one of the most important persons" in the 300-year history of the town's Union Chapel. He also helped to found schools and a cemetery in Brighton.
Engraving published May 1826
Goulty was pastor of Union Chapel, Brighton between 1823 and 1861.
Union Chapel, Brighton, post-1823 arrangement as it would have appeared at Goulty's tenure, with the design attributed to "H. Wilds, Architect"
Goulty was one of the founders of the Extra Mural Cemetery, described as "one of the most delightful spots in the whole of Brighton".
The Union Chapel, also known as the Union Street Chapel, Elim Free Church, Four Square Gospel Tabernacle or Elim Tabernacle of the Four Square Gospel, is a former chapel in the centre of Brighton, a constituent part of the city of Brighton and Hove, England. After three centuries of religious use by various congregations, the chapel—which had been Brighton's first Nonconformist place of worship—passed into secular use in 1988 when it was converted into a pub. It was redesigned in 1825, at the height of Brighton's Georgian building boom, by at least one of the members of the Wilds–Busby architectural partnership, Brighton's pre-eminent designers and builders of the era, but may retain some 17th-century parts. It has been listed at Grade II in view of its architectural importance.
The façade viewed from the southwest
The east wall, in a traditional Sussex style with cobbled stones, flints and red brick dressings
Memorial tablet to Henry Varley, a preacher during the Glynn Vivian Miners' Mission era
Engraving by William Alexander showing post-1823 arrangement, attributed to "H. Wilds, Architect"
