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TV 6199
623/8/10051

EASTBOURNE
PEVESNEY ROAD (north west side)
The Deliverance Centre
Church of God Worldwide Mission Pentecostal International Church
Former Central Methodist Church, former hall and school and attached walls

(formerly listed as Central Methodist Church, former hall and school and attached walls, PEVESNEY ROAD)

13.08.96

II
Formerly included: Central Methodist Church, former hall and school and attached walls, SUSANS ROAD. Formerly included: Central Methodist Church, former hall and school and attached walls, LANGNEY ROAD

Former Methodist Church, hall, sunday schools and attached walls. Dated 1907, architect Carlos Crisford. Church facing south-east with main entrance in Pevensey Road, Hall facing north-west with main entrance in Langney Road and both have elevations along Susans Road.

CHURCH; church built of coursed stone rubble with ashlar dressings and renewed pantiled roof. Decorated style.

PLAN: south east porch, south east tower with spire and five bay nave with aisles and galleries.

EXTERIOR: south east front has large seven bay arched traceried window with trefoil heads. Canted porch with large arch to centre and four trefoil-headed lancets, the outer ones divided by splayed buttresses. Behind the porch are two cambered doorways inscribed 'ENTER HIS GATES WITH THANKSGIVING AND INTO HIS COURTS WITH PRAISE.' Tower of three stages with buttresses surmounted by crockets. Top stage is bell stage with double trefoil louvred opening. Band of carved trefoils above first floor and to gables. First floor lancets and ogee arched doorcase. Angle buttresses. Stone spire with triangular lucarnes, surmounted by metal weathervane. Elevation to Susans Road has five gables with triple traceried arched windows to gallery, flat-headed windows to aisles and square porch to north east.

INTERIOR: complete interior of the period with wooden gallery supported on clustered cast- iron columns and similar columns to galleries. Central elaborate wooden organ case and choir seating, incorporating pulpit. Original pews. Hammerbeam roof. Stained glass to north west window.

HALL AND SUNDAY SCHOOL: identical building materials to church. Hall is of Decorated style. Langney Road elevation has hall to north west of two storeys with gable with seven-light traceried window with large stone urn surmounted by a cross inscribed 'THE WORLD IS MY PARISH'. Three cambered windows to ground floor. End buttresses Decorative cast-iron rainwater heads. School adjoins hall but of Jacobean style. Two storeys. Two windows to Langney Road elevation, triple mullioned and transomed windows with pedimented centre and similar gablets to parapet. Ground floor has in addition to a window a right side cambered doorcase with carved panel with date 1907 and 'CENTRAL WESLEYAN HALL AND SCHOOLS'. Susans Road elevation of two storeys, four windows with full-height octagonal crenellated towers at ends and two chimneys disguised as crenellated turrets. Windows are mullioned and transomed casements with leaded lights with side cames of red glass. Some windows have been replaced with glass and false lead cames. Central two windows set back and are four-light mullioned and transomed casements with pediment to central two lights. Projecting ends have three-light mullioned and transomed casements with pediments to central light. End towers have single lights and diaper patterns above first floor.

INTERIOR: features include staircase with fine decorative cast-iron balustrading.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached low wall to Langney Road and Pevensey Road elevations of flint with stone coping, cast-iron gates and railings and flint and stone gate piers or buttresses with gabled caps. Most railings missing since Second World War.

Listing NGR: TV6148399094

External Links

• Central Methodist Church, Eastbourne at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5061419

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]