Brighton Forum

Brighton Forum
The building from the southeast
Location	95 Ditchling Road, Round Hill, Brighton, Brighton and Hove BN1 4ST, United Kingdom
Coordinates	50°50′00″N 0°08′04″W / 50.8332°N 0.1345°W / 50.8332; -0.1345Coordinates: 50°50′00″N 0°08′04″W / 50.8332°N 0.1345°W / 50.8332; -0.1345
Built	1854
Built for	Diocese of Chichester
Restored	1987
Architect	William and Edward Habershon
Architectural style(s)	Gothic Revival
Listed Building – Grade II
Official name: Brighton Business Centre
Designated	22 March 1988
Reference no.	1380440
Location within central Brighton

Citibase Brighton (previously known as The Brighton Forum by Topcentre) is a complex of serviced offices on a prominent elevated position in the Round Hill area of Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. The large Gothic Revival building, by two architect brothers from London, has had three greatly different uses since its construction at the edge of Brighton parish in 1854: for its first 85 years, it trained Anglican schoolmistresses; then it became a military base and records office; and in 1988 it opened as a multipurpose business centre and office complex. The elaborate flint exterior is finely detailed in the Gothic style, especially around the windows. English Heritage has listed it at Grade II for its architectural and historical importance.

The ancient Sussex fishing village of Brighthelmston, which in the 18th and 19th centuries developed into the fashionable seaside resort of Brighton, lay within the Anglican Diocese of Chichester. In the 19th century, before the Elementary Education Act 1870 centralised the provision of primary-level education and established school boards, most 5- to 12-year-olds were taught (if at all) at schools founded and sponsored by charities, private benefactors or churches. There were many such church schools in Brighton: Anglican churches with their own schools included Christ Church, St Bartholomew's, St John the Evangelist's, St Mark's, St Martin's, St Paul's and St Stephen's.