Hove Methodist Church

Hove was added to the Methodist circuit covering the neighbouring town of Brighton and the county town of Lewes in 1808, and by the next year 13 members were recorded as living in Hove. After several decades of meeting in houses and other buildings, the growing community decided to found their own church in the 1880s. After one proposed site had to be abandoned because of a lack of money, in 1883 they bought a plot of land on the north side of Portland Road—a main east–west route running from Hove through Aldrington to Portslade. The site cost £400 (equivalent to £}} in ). A second-hand temporary building made of iron was erected, but it had to be taken down in 1892; the congregation, who…

John Wills designed the church in the Romanesque Revival style with Gothic elements. He used local bricks, made at the Keymer Brick and Tile Works in Burgess Hill, for the exterior; the expanses of red brick are combined with pale stone quarried in Wiltshire. Above the new glass entrance tower, arranged over two storeys, is a large rose window with twelve spokes, above a group of six lancet windows surrounded by stonework. The roof is laid with concrete tiles. Internally, the church is a simple rectangle with wooden galleries on three sides, reached by gable-headed staircases with pairs of windows alongside. Below the hammerbeam roof, the gallery is held up by cast iron columns. A…

Hove Methodist Church was listed at Grade II by English Heritage on 2 November 1992. The church is part of the Brighton and Hove Circuit of Methodist churches, which includes the city's five other churches: one in Patcham, one in Stanford Avenue near Preston Park, one in Hollingbury, one in Woodingdean and the Dorset Gardens Methodist Church in Kemptown. It is the only remaining place of worship for Methodists in Hove: former churches at Old Shoreham Road, Goldstone Villas and Portslade Other social activities, Bible study groups and services take place during the week.