[1] Architect Ralph Covell based the design on the six-pointed Star of David creating an hexagonal space for worship to bring congregation and clergy closer together, as encouraged by the Second Vatican Council.

The six sections of the star-shaped roof comprise alternate hyperbolic paraboloid (hypar) shells and pyramidal structures.

Henry Haig, then teaching at Kingston School of Art, was commissioned to create the fourteen stained glass windows.

The non-figurative designs of the windows and paintings are inspired by aspects of the life and work of St Richard.

[4] The tracker organ with electric blower, single manual keyboard, small pedal keyboard and nine stops, originally made in about 1900 by Bevington and Sons of London, was rebuilt in the church in 1965 by N. P. Mander Ltd.[4] On 20 May 1966 the church was consecrated to St Richard of Chichester by the Right Reverend Mervyn Stockwood, then Bishop of Southwark.