This church was opened on Thursday 14th September 1905, with the address being given by the Rev. Dr. Guiness Rogers, a distinguished Congregationalist minister. The church’s own minister Rev. Samuel B. Lane was also of note, being President of the Bible Christian Connexion in that year.
The church was designed by the local architect Edwin J. Hamilton and could seat 450. There was also a school hall and four other rooms. It closed as a Methodist church in 1947, but in 1950 was acquired by a charity, the Guardianship Society, who provide community based services for adults with special needs. the charity has been known since 1988 as the Grace Eyre Foundation, and they still make good use of the building.
Any information regarding the Methodist use of this building would be gratefully received.
Sources:
Ordnance Survey. 25 inch to one mile. Sussex LXVI.9 (1911)
Statistical returns … as at July 1st 1940. Manchester: Methodist Church, Department of Chapel Affairs, 1947
The Building News and Engineering Journal 86, 1904 p464
Brighton Gazette 16 September 1905
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Andrew Tett has been in touch to kindly supply us with a series of photographs. As can be seen from the first, the entrance was on Montefiore Road.
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