and arched windows at the upper (gallery) level. There is another porch at the northeast corner. The tower has three levels, with crocketed buttresses to the lower and middle stages. The upper level has a belfry with louvres and trefoil-headed windows. Above this, the spire is of stone and has lucarnes (small dormers popular in Gothic architecture) and a weather-vane. The original interior survives. A wooden gallery, supported on slender iron columns, runs round below the hammerbeam roof. Other fittings dating from the church's opening include pews, a pulpit and an organ case originally fitted with a three-manual pipe organ. The church hall is a two-storey Decorated Gothic building of stone, with gables, cast ironwork and lancet windows with tracery. The adjacent Sunday school, also of two storeys, has a Jacobean appearance, with battlemented turrets in several places. There is a two-window range on the Langney Road side; each has prominent transoms, mullions and pediments. The Susans Road façade has a four-window range, mostly with leadlights. Inside, a staircase with ornate cast ironwork survives. Associated churches Central Methodist Church was the principal church in the Eastbourne Methodist Circuit, which has existed in its present form since 1871. It was linked to or associated with several other Methodist churches in the town and in surrounding villages. Greenfield Methodist Church, an Early English-style red-brick building, has served Eastbourne's Old Town area since 1898, although worshippers had met for ten years prior to that above a shop. Central Methodist Church's predecessor, the Pevensey Road Chapel, helped to found and pay for the new church, whose registration number under the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 is 36771. In Eastbourne's poor East End, chapels were founded at Beamsley Road in 1886 and Ringwood Road in 1904. Another church, St Aidan's, was opened nearby in 1913, and the congregations merged and worshipped in that building after the Methodist Union of 1932 brought together the denomination's different subgroups. St Aidan's Church survived until 2001, but was closed and demolished in that year. The postwar housing estate of Hampden Park gained its first church in 1960, after Central Church played a leading role in establishing a community of worshippers there. St Stephen's Church (now the Broadway United Church, registration number 67820) was opened on 23 July 1960 and was extended 11 years later. A few years later, Central Church was represented on the cross-denominational "Langney Church Sponsoring