The present building, which has been registered as a place of worship since 1965, is architecturally significant for its curved, windowless Brutalist form.

Brighton's first Spiritualist church was formally founded on 17 May 1902, when a committee of worshippers agreed to hold weekly services in "the room [in] which the meeting had been formerly held".

With the name Brighton National Spiritualist Church, it was formally registered as a place of worship and for the solemnisation of marriages in January 1949.

"The face of the street was completely altered" by the clearance of unsuitable buildings in the 1950s and a programme of road widening between 1961 and 1964 on what was the main entry point to the town from the east.

[6] Many properties were compulsorily purchased, including the church on Mighell Street[1] (whose site was occupied from 1977 by forecourt of Amex House, a corporate headquarters).

[6] In March 1961, shortly after the compulsory purchase order, the church was able to acquire a new site further along Edward Street.

The Brighton and Hove Central Spiritualist Church was first documented in April 1925, when it met at the Athenaeum Hall in North Street.

[7] The northern side of Edward Street dates entirely from the 1960s and 1970s and is lined with "prominent buildings" such as the church, which has an "unusual figure-of-eight design".

[7] The left-hand worship space is also top-lit with square shafts; the exterior is entirely windowless, consisting of vertically laid concrete blocks in a pattern emulating stretcher bond brickwork.