Horatio Nelson Goulty

Horatio Nelson Goulty
Born	1832 or 1833 Brighton, East Sussex, England
Died	7 July 1869 Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, England
Occupation	Architect
Parent(s)	John Nelson Goulty

Horatio Nelson Goulty (1832/33–7 July 1869) was an English architect. He designed several buildings in Brighton and was an important figure in the town's public affairs in the early Victorian era.

Horatio Nelson Goulty was born in 1832 or 1833 in Brighton, East Sussex. His father was Reverend John Nelson Goulty, the pastor of Union Chapel and a cousin of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758–1805). As a result, Lord Nelson was his uncle. Goulty was married and had two children.

In 1850, Goulty and his father were two of the four founders of the Extra Mural Cemetery in Brighton. The others were architect Amon Henry Wilds and doctor and politician John Cordy Burrows. Although Wilds has been credited in some sources with the design of the two cemetery chapels (only one of which survives), Goulty's obituary in the Freemasons' Magazine and Masonic Mirror attributes the buildings to him. Goulty's influence in Brighton's public life increased when he became councillor for Park ward, one of six wards created in 1854 to govern the newly created Municipal Borough of Brighton. Named after Queen's Park, this electoral division covered the east of the town. He supported the town's Children's Hospital, which was founded by local doctor R.P.B. Taaffe at 178 Western Road on 3 August 1868 with the name Brighton Hospital for Sick Children. It now occupies a different site and is known as the Royal Alexandra Hospital. He also served as a secretary of the Local School of Art in Brighton, a Sunday Schools inspector and a deacon at a Nonconformist chapel.

Goulty was responsible for two new Congregational churches in East Sussex during the 1860s. Cliftonville Congregational Church, a congregation based in central Hove, used his Sunday School building (erected in 1861) for worship until his grey stone Early English Gothic Revival-style church building was finished. The church is still in active use under the name Central United Reformed Church. In 1866, he used a different architectural style—plain Neoclassical—for his design of the Newhaven Congregational Chapel at Newhaven, which replaced a building of 1797. The stucco-faced stone building served as a church until 1938, after which it fell into dereliction and later became an antiques market.

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