Editing Hove (section)

== Landmarks and attractions ==
===Places of worship===
{{See also|List of places of worship in Brighton and Hove|List of demolished places of worship in Brighton and Hove}} 
[[File:All Saints Church, The Drive, Hove (April 2014).JPG|thumb|right|[[All Saints Hove|All Saints]] is the [[Church of England parish church]] of Hove.]]
Ecclesiastically, Hove was part of a joint parish with [[Preston Village, Brighton|Preston]] between 1531 and 1879. The newly separate parish of Hove was then split several times in the late 19th and 20th centuries as the population grew and more [[Anglicanism|Anglican]] churches were built.<ref name="VCH-Hove"/>  [[St Andrew's Church, Church Road, Hove|St Andrew's Church]] near the top end of Hove Street was the ancient [[parish church]] but was in ruins by the 1830s, when it was rebuilt<ref name="VCH-Hove"/> in a [[Neo-Gothic]] style.<ref name="Dale73">{{Harvnb|Dale|1989|p=73.}}</ref>  [[St Helen's Church, Hangleton|St Helen's Church]] at Hangleton, lightly [[Victorian restoration|restored]] in the 1870s, retains the style of a simple Sussex downland church.<ref name="VCH-Hangleton">{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol7/pp277-281|title=A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 7, the Rape of Lewes. Parishes: Hangleton|editor-last=Salzman|editor-first=L.F.|editor-link=Louis Francis Salzman|year=1940|work=[[Victoria County History]] of Sussex|publisher=[[British History Online]]|pages=277–281|access-date=9 September 2016|archive-date=9 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309190809/https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol7/pp277-281|url-status=live}}</ref>  [[St Peter's Church, West Blatchington|St Peter's Church]] was abandoned and fell to ruins in the 17th century when West Blatchington became depopulated, but it was rebuilt in the 1890s.<ref name="VCH-WestBlatchington">{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol7/pp242-244|title=A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 7, the Rape of Lewes. Parishes: West Blatchington|editor-last=Salzman|editor-first=L.F.|editor-link=Louis Francis Salzman|year=1940|work=[[Victoria County History]] of Sussex|publisher=[[British History Online]]|pages=242–244|access-date=9 September 2016|archive-date=6 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806115009/https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol7/pp242-244|url-status=live}}</ref> [[St Leonard's Church, Aldrington|St Leonard's]], the parish church of Aldrington, was also ruinous until 1878 when local population growth necessitated its restoration.<ref name="VCH-Aldrington">{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol7/pp275-276|title=A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 7, the Rape of Lewes. Parishes: Aldrington|editor-last=Salzman|editor-first=L.F.|editor-link=Louis Francis Salzman|year=1940|work=[[Victoria County History]] of Sussex|publisher=[[British History Online]]|pages=275–276|access-date=9 September 2016|archive-date=6 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306213646/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol7/pp275-276|url-status=live}}</ref>{{#tag:ref|The dedication is incorrectly recorded as ''St Nicholas'' in the ''Victoria County History of Sussex''.|group=note}}

[[St Andrew's Church, Waterloo Street, Hove|A second church dedicated to St Andrew]] opened on the Brunswick estate in 1828.  [[St John the Baptist's Church, Hove|St John the Baptist's]] was built on [[Palmeira Square]] in 1852, followed by [[St Patrick's Church, Hove|St Patrick's]] nearby in 1858 and [[Holy Trinity Church, Hove|Holy Trinity]] in central Hove in 1864.  [[St Barnabas Church, Hove|St Barnabas]] served the poorer areas around Sackville Road from 1883; [[All Saints Hove|All Saints]] on Eaton Road dates from 1889 to 1891;<ref name="VCH-Hove"/> [[St Philip's Church, Hove|St Philip's]] was built in 1895 as a second church for Aldrington,<ref name="VCH-Aldrington"/> and opened a mission hall (now Holy Cross Church) in the Poets' Corner area in 1903;<ref name="EncH&Pv12p151–152">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 12, pp. 151–152.}}</ref> St Thomas the Apostle opened on Davigdor Road in 1909;<ref name="EncH&Pv12p103">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 12, p. 103.}}</ref> St Agnes was built north of Hove station in 1913;<ref name="VCH-Hove"/> [[Bishop Hannington Memorial Church]] opened in West Blatchington in 1939;<ref name="NHLE-1298638">{{NHLE|num=1298638|desc=Bishop Hannington Memorial Church, Holmes Avenue (east side), Hove|grade=II|access-date=6 December 2019}}</ref> and The Knoll estate has been served by St Richard's Church since 1961, replacing a 1930s church hall.<ref name="EncH&Pv12p153">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 12, p. 153.}}</ref>  Four of these churches have closed: St Agnes in 1977,<ref name="EncH&Pv12p21">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 12, p. 21.}}</ref> St Andrew's in Brunswick Town in 1990,<ref name="EncH&Pv12p36">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 12, p. 36.}}</ref> St Thomas in 1993<ref name="EncH&Pv12p103"/> and Holy Trinity in 2007.<ref name="Argus-11730073">{{cite web |title=Plans to convert derelict church into surgery back on |url=http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/11730073.Plans_to_convert_derelict_church_into_surgery_back_on/ |last=Yeomans |first=Emma |publisher=[[Newsquest|Newsquest Media Group]] |date=16 January 2015 |work=[[The Argus (Brighton)|The Argus]] |access-date=16 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150628180348/http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/11730073.Plans_to_convert_derelict_church_into_surgery_back_on/ |archive-date=28 June 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref>  All Saints Church, a Grade I-listed building by [[John Loughborough Pearson]], became the parish church of Hove in 1892.<ref name="VCH-Hove"/>

The [[Church of the Sacred Heart, Hove|Church of the Sacred Heart]] was Hove's first Roman Catholic church. It was founded in 1876 by [[St Mary Magdalen's Church, Brighton|St Mary Magdalen's Church]] in Brighton, whose first priest left money in his will for a church in Hove. Work was delayed by disputes over the site, but after land on Norton Road was secured construction started in 1880 and the west end was finished in 1887.<ref name="TS-Hove">{{cite web|url=http://taking-stock.org.uk/Home/Dioceses/Diocese-of-Arundel-and-Brighton/Hove-The-Sacred-Heart|title=Hove – The Sacred Heart|publisher=Catholic Trust for England and Wales and [[English Heritage]]|year=2011|access-date=9 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180224113546/http://taking-stock.org.uk/Home/Dioceses/Diocese-of-Arundel-and-Brighton/Hove-The-Sacred-Heart|archive-date=24 February 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>  The Sacred Heart in turn founded a mission church in 1902 to serve the Aldrington and Portland Road areas of Hove. St Peter's Hall was used until the "startling" [[basilica]]-style red-brick [[St Peter's Church, Aldrington|St Peter's Church]] was opened in 1915.<ref name="TS-Aldrington">{{cite web|url=http://taking-stock.org.uk/Home/Dioceses/Diocese-of-Arundel-and-Brighton/Hove-St-Peter|title=Hove – St Peter|publisher=Catholic Trust for England and Wales and [[English Heritage]]|year=2011|access-date=9 September 2016|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240527231826/https://www.webcitation.org/6kOlySlpS?url=http://taking-stock.org.uk/Home/Dioceses/Diocese-of-Arundel-and-Brighton/Hove-St-Peter|archive-date=27 May 2024|url-status=live}}</ref>  [[Mass (liturgy)|Mass]] was said in Hangleton from the 1940s in a hall and at the Grenadier pub, but in the 1950s land on Court Farm Road was bought for a church and St George's Church opened in 1968. It serves West Blatchington and Hangleton,<ref name="EncH&Pv12pp77–78">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 12, pp. 77–78.}}</ref> and is now part of a joint parish with [[Southwick, West Sussex|Southwick]] and [[Portslade]].<ref name="Directory92">{{Harvnb|The Diocese of Arundel & Brighton|2016|p=92.}}</ref>

Hove was included in the Lewes and Brighton [[Governance of the Methodist Church of Great Britain|Methodist Circuit]] from 1808, although at times during the 19th century no Methodists ([[Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain)|Wesleyan]], [[Primitive Methodist Church|Primitive]] or [[Bible Christian Church|Bible Christian]]) lived in the area. A secondhand [[tin tabernacle]] was erected on Portland Road for Wesleyans in 1883, and the present [[Hove Methodist Church]] was built on the site in 1896.<ref name="EncH&Pv9p37">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 9, p. 37.}}</ref>  A Bible Christian chapel was built in 1905 on Old Shoreham Road but never thrived; it closed in 1947 and was sold to a charity.<ref name="EncH&Pv9p36">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 9, p. 36.}}</ref>  Primitive Methodists worshipped at a large chapel on Goldstone Villas from 1878 until 1933. It was converted into offices in 1968.<ref name="EncH&Pv9pp35–36">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 9, pp. 35–36.}}</ref>

Hove's [[General Baptists|General Baptist]] congregation developed in the 1870s and met in a gymnasium and a [[tin tabernacle]] until [[Holland Road Baptist Church]] opened in 1887.<ref name="EncH&Pv2p9">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 2, p. 9.}}</ref>  A deacon from the church started holding Baptist meetings in a new church building on the Hangleton estate in 1957. It now has the name Oasis Church.<ref name="EncH&Pv2p9"/>  A former [[Congregational church#United Kingdom|Congregational]] mission hall in Aldrington, built in 1900, is home to the Baptist-aligned New Life Christian Church.<!--Add ref for this-->  Stoneham Road Baptist Church was founded in 1904 by the Holland Road church to serve the Poets' Corner area.<!--Add ref for this-->  It closed and was demolished in 2008.<!--Add ref for this-->  Baptists also met in Connaught Terrace from 1879, and Strict Baptists worshipped at Providence Chapel on Haddington Street from 1880 until 1908.<ref name="EncH&Pv2p9"/>

[[File:Central United Reformed Church, Ventnor Villas, Hove (December 2016).JPG|thumb|right|Central United Reformed Church was built 1870 for [[Congregational church#United Kingdom|Congregationalists]].]]
A [[Congregational church#United Kingdom|Congregational]] chapel was built on Ventnor Villas in 1870, and 41 years later St Cuthbert's Presbyterian Church opened on Holland Road. After the two denominations merged in 1972 to form the [[United Reformed Church]], the congregations came together in 1980 at the Ventnor Villas premises. These were renamed Central United Reformed Church and continue to serve as the main centre for that denomination in Hove. St Cuthbert's was demolished in 1984.<ref name="EncH&Pv3p72–73">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 3, pp. 72–73.}}</ref><ref name="EncH&Pv12p76–77">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 12, pp. 76–77.}}</ref>  In 1938 trustees of the Congregational chapel founded another on the Hangleton estate.  [[Hounsom Memorial Church]] is also now part of the United Reformed Church.<ref name="EncH&Pv7p72–73">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 7, pp. 72–73.}}</ref>

[[The Salvation Army]] have worshipped in Hove since 1882 and occupy a citadel built in 1890 on Sackville Road.<ref name="EncH&Pv12p161">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 12, p. 161.}}</ref>  [[Jehovah's Witnesses]] meet in Aldrington at a [[Kingdom Hall]] which was built in 1999 to replace a hall of 1950.<ref name="EncH&Pv8p35"/>  A [[Nondenominational Christianity|non-denominational]] [[Gospel Hall Assemblies|gospel hall]] stands on Edward Avenue in the Goldstone Valley area. The Christian Arabic Evangelical Church meets in a converted bungalow on Old Shoreham Road in Aldrington.<ref name="EncH&Pv1pp40–41">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 1, pp. 40–41.}}</ref>  A former Anglican church of 1909 on Davigdor Road has served [[Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria|Coptic Orthodox Christians]] from a wide area since 1994, when it was rededicated as [[St Mary and St Abraam Coptic Orthodox Church, Hove|St Mary and St Abraam Church]] by [[Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria]].<ref name="EncH&Pv12p103"/>  [[Buddhism|Buddhists]] have a cultural centre and place of worship at a former convent near Furze Hill.<ref name="EncH&Pv15p193">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 15, p. 193.}}</ref>  Other former churches in Hove include an [[Elim Pentecostal Church|Elim Pentecostal]] chapel (in use 1929–1994) on Portland Road,<ref name="Elleray35">{{Harvnb|Elleray|2004|p=35.}}</ref> the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church|Seventh-day Adventist]] chapel on Hove Place, whose congregation now meet at Hove Methodist Church,<!-- add ref for this --> and a former mission hall in the Poets' Corner area which was used until {{circa}} 1981 as a chapel for the local [[Society of Dependants]] sect.<ref name="EncH&Pv3p83">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 3, p. 83.}}</ref>

=== Hove Museum of Creativity ===
[[Hove Museum and Art Gallery|Hove Museum of Creativity]] is a municipally-owned museum which houses a permanent collection of toys, contemporary crafts, fine art and local history artefacts, as well as holding temporary exhibitions of contemporary crafts.