Campaign group the Twentieth Century Society has submitted a listing application for Brighton and Hove Reform Synagogue in a bid to save the modernist building and its windows from demolition.

The synagogue was designed by Derek Sharp Associates and completed in 1968. It features stained glass by John Petts, who was chosen because of his international standing as creator of the Wales Window for the 16th St Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.

The C20 Society said historians had drawn comparisons between Petts’ artwork, which presents scenes from the Revelation, and Picasso’s seminal painting Guernica because of the way both articulate the personal, emotional and historical dimensions of war.

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