It closed in the early 21st century and was converted for residential use. The congregation moved to Central Methodist Church temporarily while they sought a new place of worship. The community, now known as New Hope Baptist Church, relocated to a building in Longstone Road before buying a former social club on Beach Road and converting it into a church. In 2015, the Methodist and United Reformed Churches announced plans for a merger between four of their congregations in central Eastbourne and the consolidation of worship on the site of Upperton United Reformed Church, which would be demolished and replaced with a new building named Emmanuel Church. The other three churches, including Central Methodist Church, would close. As an interim step, Greenfield Methodist Church's name was changed to Emmanuel Church and it now holds services for both denominations. Central Methodist Church's Methodist congregation vacated the building in 2018, and it is now occupied exclusively by the Church of God Worldwide Mission. This Pentecostal group had met locally since 1998 but had no building of their own; they had shared Central Methodist Church since 2009 or earlier. Regular services and prayer meetings are held. The church is now known as Deliverance Centre Eastbourne. Central Methodist Church's registrations for worship and marriages were cancelled in January 2019. Architecture Central Methodist Church is an elaborate Decorated Gothic Revival building of grey stone rubble laid in courses with some ashlar. The roof is laid with pantiles, which are not original. Nikolaus Pevsner wrote that its appearance was "entirely churchy"—resembling an Anglican place of worship much more than typical Nonconformist chapels of the era (of which Eastbourne has several examples). The church and its associated buildings stand on a corner site. The church itself is entered from Pevensey Road and faces southeastwards; its side façade faces southwest on Susans Road. Next to it on this road is the Sunday school and church hall, which also has a northwest elevation along Langney Road. The church entrance is in a canted buttressed porch next to the tower, which stands at the southeast corner. There are two pairs of lancet windows in the porch, each with trefoils above. A wide seven-light lancet window with tracery and trefoils is above this. The double doorway in the porch has a carving of a verse from Psalm 100: . The Susans Road façade is of five bays, each with a gable