Former Holy Trinity Church

The building is a former Holy Trinity Church, dating from 1863-4, with a tower added in 1866 and a north aisle in 1868. An external pulpit was added in 1912, followed by choir robing rooms inserted under the gallery in 1949, one later becoming a vicar’s office in 1975. The church was made redundant in 2007 and subsequently converted into a medical centre in 2017.

Designed by the local architect James Woodman (builder Mr Cane), the church's architectural style has been described as Lombardo-Gothic, Early English, or a less precise “ecclesiastical-eclectic” style. It is constructed of red brick with coloured brick detailing the window openings, and features Bath stone dressings including string courses and cornices. The roof is covered with asbestos slate, with coped verges.

The layout includes a four-bay aisled nave extended west with a gallery over vestry rooms, a polygonal apse, a north-east organ bay, and a south-east vestry with an attached external pulpit. A crenellated three-stage tower is prominent, with two-light bell openings, an arcade of interlocking arches on the south front, and a stair turret on the west front. Rose windows provide light to the east end of the aisles and the west end of the nave. The external pulpit is red brick with Bath stone dressings, featuring Ionic pilasters supporting a cavetto moulded cornice and is accessed via a short flight of steps with an ashlar wall. It has a studded plank door.

The interior is rendered. The chancel has an arch-braced roof carried on foliate corbels, while the nave has scissor-bracing. The aisles exhibit an unusual roof construction featuring two tiers of curved struts. The arcade has foliate capitals, and there is a wooden gallery with pierced panels. The organ, originally built by Harper of Bath in 1883, was rebuilt in 1926 and electrically converted in 1964. A Caen stone font, supported by Sicilian marble columns, was presented in 1878, with a carved canopy added in 1924. Sanctuary panelling, choir stalls, and an altar table date from 1924. The chancel is carpeted. An original pulpit, described in the church guidebook as projecting over the north edge of the chancel opening, was replaced in 1934 by a freestanding wooden one. Stained glass windows are by Ward and Hughes, with one in the north aisle by Hardman. A planned spire was never constructed.

The church is noted as the only one in the Brighton and Hove area with an external pulpit, reflecting its early evangelical traditions. Situated on a prominent position within an important street, it is considered an interesting example of its type.