The red-brick building has been listed at Grade II by English Heritage in view of its architectural importance.

After one proposed site had to be abandoned because of a lack of money, in 1883 they bought a plot of land[2] on the north side of Portland Road—a main east–west route running from Hove through Aldrington to Portslade.

[4] His plans were approved in 1896, and the church was founded on 3 June of that year by a group of 20 members, each of whom laid a stone in the floor or below the windows.

[5] The church itself was altered externally in 1992, when the distinctive former double staircase leading to the entrance[2] was demolished and a two-storey tower of multicoloured glass was added on the Portland Road façade.

[2] Ernest Kirtlan, known for his distinctive preaching style during his four-year incumbency from 1908—his loud voice sometimes sent Communion cruets falling from the altar to the floor—was also an expert on medieval English literature.

Internally, the church is a simple rectangle with wooden galleries on three sides, reached by gable-headed staircases with pairs of windows alongside.

[9][10] It is the only remaining place of worship for Methodists in Hove: former churches at Old Shoreham Road,[11] Goldstone Villas[12] and Portslade[12] have closed.