Question: What Closed or disused place of worship in Worthing is associated with the architect who lived in London 's Leicester Square from 1825 to 1827 ?

text: List of places of worship in Worthing
Closed or disused places of worship

The borough of Worthing, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex, has 49 extant, operating churches and other places of worship. Sixteen other former places of worship are still in existence but are no longer in religious use. The district, on the south coast of England, is mostly urban: it consists of the seaside resort of Worthing, established in the 19th century, and its residential suburbs, ranging from ancient villages absorbed by the growing town to housing estates built after World War II. Most residents identify themselves as Christian, and there is only one non-Christian place of worship, a mosque. The Church of England, the country's officially established church, is represented by more churches than any other denomination, but Worthing's first church was an Independent chapel. Protestant Nonconformism flourished in the early 19th century during the town's early development, while Roman Catholic worship (after the Catholic Emancipation) took root somewhat later. English Heritage has awarded listed status to 12 of Worthing's extant churches and two former church buildings. A building is defined as listed when it is placed on a statutory register of buildings of special architectural or historic interest in accordance with the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport, a Government department, is responsible for this; English Heritage, a non-departmental public body, acts as an agency of the department to administer the process and advise the department on relevant issues. There are three grades of listing status. Grade I, the highest, is defined as being of exceptional interest; Grade II* is used for particularly important buildings of more than special interest; and Grade II, the lowest, is used for buildings of special interest.
Name Location Denomination/ Affiliation Grade Notes
St Paul 's Church Worthing 50°48′49″N 0°22′17″W / 50.8137°N 0.3714°W / 50.8137 ; -0.3714 ( Former St Paul 's Church , Worthing ) Anglican II An 1809 Act of Parliament allowed St Paul 's to be built as a chapel of ease to St Mary 's Church in Broadwater ; it remained in force until 1893 , when a parish was formed . It thrived as Worthing 's reputation as a fashionable seaside resort grew , and the sale of pews to visitors brought in much money . John Rebecca 's stuccoed brick building with Doric columns and cupola became structurally unsound and was closed in 1995
Anglesea Street Mission Worthing 50°49′01″N 0°22′44″W / 50.8169°N 0.3789°W / 50.8169 ; -0.3789 ( Former Anglesea Street Mission , Worthing ) Anglican - Christ Church 's first mission hall was opened in the 1880s , originally under the name Clifton Road Mission Hall . Under its present name , Verrall Hall , it is a Scout headquarters
Crescent Road Mission Worthing 50°48′37″N 0°22′34″W / 50.8102°N 0.3761°W / 50.8102 ; -0.3761 ( Former Crescent Road Mission , Worthing ) Anglican - Originally a non-denominational mission chapel , this was taken over by Christ Church and used as a mission hall . It is now part of an adjacent shop
Newland Road Mission Worthing 50°49′06″N 0°22′07″W / 50.8184°N 0.3686°W / 50.8184 ; -0.3686 ( Former Newland Road Mission , Worthing ) Anglican - Built in 1883 by St George 's Church to serve new housing near the railway , this red-brick chapel , designed by George Hewer , was used until 1936 . Under the new guise of Forester 's Hall , it has been a school and a photographic studio
Ham Arch Mission East Worthing 50°49′10″N 0°21′14″W / 50.8194°N 0.3538°W / 50.8194 ; -0.3538 ( Former Ham Arch Mission , East Worthing ) Anglican - Named after a nearby railway bridge , and ironically known as The Cathedral locally , this tiny hut - now a workshop - was served from St George 's Church for 29 years from 1885
Brethren Gospel Hall West Tarring 50°49′31″N 0°23′35″W / 50.8253°N 0.3931°W / 50.8253 ; -0.3931 ( Former Brethren Gospel Hall , West Tarring ) Brethren - This tiny chapel , now in residential use , is set back from Tarring 's ancient high street . It is in a simple Classical style with a pediment and oeil de boeuf . Services were held from 1860 until 1992
Christian Brethren Hall Worthing 50°48′37″N 0°22′08″W / 50.8103°N 0.3688°W / 50.8103 ; -0.3688 ( Former Christian Brethren Hall , Worthing ) Brethren - This stuccoed building of around 1850 was in religious use from 1910 , by Brethren , Baptists and ( from 1977 ) Evangelicals . It has fallen out of use and is unoccupied as of 2020
Gospel Hall Durrington 50°49′58″N 0°24′46″W / 50.8327°N 0.4127°W / 50.8327 ; -0.4127 ( Former Gospel Hall , Durrington ) Brethren - Planning permission for this meeting hall on Birkdale Road was granted in 1990 . It had a capacity for about 60 worshippers . In June 2011 the charity Scope stated that they had recently bought it and converted it into a social and activity centre
Bedford Row Methodist Chapel Worthing 50°48′41″N 0°22′08″W / 50.8114°N 0.3690°W / 50.8114 ; -0.3690 ( Former Bedford Row Methodist Chapel , Worthing ) Methodist II Worthing 's first Wesleyan Methodist chapel , the Providence Chapel of 1822 , was replaced by this pedimented , stuccoed , Neoclassical building , with tall , tapering windows , in 1840 . It passed into secular use in 1900 when the church in Steyne Gardens ( now Cornerstone Methodist Church ) replaced it , and is now the function room of the Vintners Parrot pub
Lyndhurst Road Methodist Church East Worthing 50°49′01″N 0°21′20″W / 50.8169°N 0.3556°W / 50.8169 ; -0.3556 ( Former Lyndhurst Road Methodist Church , Worthing ) Methodist - An iron chapel for Primitive Methodists opened in Chapel Road in 1880 , moved to Lyndhurst Road in 1893 and was superseded by H.K . Armitage 's Perpendicular Gothic church in 1929 . The Methodist Church declared it redundant in 2005 , and permission was granted to establish a children 's centre in it
Methodist Providence Chapel Worthing 50°48′39″N 0°22′09″W / 50.8109°N 0.3691°W / 50.8109 ; -0.3691 ( Former Methodist Providence Chapel , Worthing ) Methodist - This chapel was built in 1822 in a Neoclassical style using flint cobblestones on the exterior . After the new chapel in nearby Bedford Row was built in 1840 , it was unused until 1852 , when an independent Christian group took it on . The building now houses a youth club
Montague Street Tabernacle Chapel Worthing 50°48′37″N 0°22′15″W / 50.8104°N 0.3707°W / 50.8104 ; -0.3707 ( Former Montague Street Tabernacle Chapel , Worthing ) Independent - This 1839 building had many uses ( hall , theatre , temporary church ) until 1895 , when the Worthing Tabernacle was founded . It moved to its new premises in 1908 , after which it was renamed St James 's Hall and used as an entertainment venue . It is now a shop
New Street Chapel Worthing 50°48′36″N 0°22′32″W / 50.8101°N 0.3755°W / 50.8101 ; -0.3755 ( Former New Street Chapel , Worthing ) Independent - This was built in the Classical style in 1861 for Independent Evangelicals . It declined after its founder , John Adams , died , and closed in 1906 . The building survives behind a shop façade
Ebenezer Strict Baptist Chapel Worthing 50°48′46″N 0°22′22″W / 50.8129°N 0.3729°W / 50.8129 ; -0.3729 ( Former Ebenezer Strict Baptist Chapel , Worthing ) Baptist - In 2005 , planning permission was granted for the conversion of this Strict Baptist chapel into a house . The congregation formed in 1887 worshipped elsewhere until 1907 , when the chapel was built
St James 's Evangelical Free Church Worthing 50°48′45″N 0°22′03″W / 50.8124°N 0.3674°W / 50.8124 ; -0.3674 ( Former St James 's Evangelical Free Church , Worthing ) Evangelical - T.H . Winney 's Perpendicular-style building was used as an Evangelical church from 1926 until 1988 , when it became a restaurant and bar . The name was derived from St James 's Hall in Montague Street , where the congregation previously met , although when its marriage registration ( granted in February 1927 ) was cancelled in February 1989 it was called Worthing Evangelical Free Church
Kingdom Hall West Tarring 50°49′16″N 0°23′32″W / 50.8211°N 0.3922°W / 50.8211 ; -0.3922 ( Kingdom Hall of Jehovah 's Witnesses , West Tarring ) Jehovah 's Witnesses - This converted house was the fifth Jehovah 's Witnesses place of worship in Worthing . The denomination , which was first established in the town in 1922 , moved to it in 1992 . It was used by three Worthing-based Congregations of Jehovah 's Witnesses : Broadwater , Durrington and Tarring . In 2013 , a planning application was submitted to construct a purpose-built Kingdom Hall on the site of the disused Second Church of Christ , Scientist on nearby Grand Avenue . This was approved , building work was completed in 2015 , and the old building 's marriage registration was cancelled in July 2015
Elim Tabernacle Worthing 50°48′49″N 0°22′25″W / 50.8135°N 0.3737°W / 50.8135 ; -0.3737 ( Former Elim Tabernacle , Worthing ) Pentecostal - George Jeffreys , founder of the Elim Pentecostal Church in the United Kingdom , established this church in 1931 . The small building , opposite Christ Church , was registered for worship in January 1935 and was used until 1982 ; a nursery school now occupies it
Shelley Road United Reformed Church Worthing 50°48′40″N 0°22′29″W / 50.8112°N 0.3746°W / 50.8112 ; -0.3746 ( Former Shelley Road United Reformed Church , Worthing ) United Reformed Church - This brick and terracotta Early English-style building served the Congregational ( later United Reformed Church ) community from 1904 until 2005 , when the congregation moved to the renamed Emmanuel Church - formerly St Columba 's . Its marriage registration was cancelled in January 2006