Category:Places of Worship

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The final service was on 4 November 2007, and the Diocese of Chichester declared it redundant on 15 February 2008. \nSource: Wikipedia\nStill Existing: Yes","Source":"Wikipedia"},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.6069,50.8673,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"Bethel Full Gospel Church","description":"\n\nDenomination: Pentacostalist\ndescription: The Pentecostalist group used this late 19th-century building, in the middle of a terrace of houses on St George's Road, before moving to Priory Road in Halton. It was registered for marriages between November 1970 and October 2001.Now a private residence.\n\nSource: Wikipedia\nStill Existing: Yes","Source":"Wikipedia"},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.5909,50.8649,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"Bohemia Primitive Methodist Chapel","description":"\n\nDenomination: Methodist\n\ndescription: This small Italianate chapel was built in the late 19th century for the Primitive Methodist community. A schoolroom was built during improvement work in 1895. It closed in 1939 and became Newgate Hall.\nSource: Wikipedia\nStill Existing: Yes","Source":"Wikipedia"},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.5611,50.863,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"Bourne Street Wesleyan Methodist Church","description":"\n\nDenomination: Methodist\ndescription: The popular Hastings Theatre, in the heart of the Old Town, was sold to the Methodist community in 1834 after nine years of use. They demolished the Neoclassical structure in 1939 in favour of a plain red-brick building, which opened the following year. As Bourne Hall, it now houses a caf\u00e9 and arts centre. \nSource: Wikipedia\nStill Existing: Yes","Source":"Wikipedia"},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.5927,50.857,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"Bulverhythe Congregational Church","description":"\n\nDenomination: Congregational\ndescription: Probably also by Elworthy and Son, Bulverhythe Congregational Chapel (built 1895,vacated circa. \n1975,now used by the Hastleons Musical Theatre Society\nSource: \nStill Existing: Yes","Source":""},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.529338,50.851782,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"Central Wesleyan Church","description":"\n\nDenomination: Methodist\ndescription: W.W. Pocock's large and \"visually important\" Wesleyan Methodist church stood on an imposing hilly corner site in the town centre. It was a stone and ashlar Early English Gothic Revival building with a tower at the southwest corner, and cost \u00a38,000.This church opened in 1876.\n\n It was deregistered as a place of worship in June 1974 and fell into dilapidation after its closure that year and was demolished in 1980.\nSource: \nStill Existing: No\n","Source":""},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.575401,50.855735,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"Christ Church (original building)","description":"\n\nDenomination: Anglican\ndescription: Built in 1860 as a working-class church, this Early English-style building used sandstone from an adjacent quarry, which then became the site of the new Christ Church in 1875. The original church then became the parish hall, hosted some activities for the nearby Christ Church School and was later turned into a theological centre and offices. \nSource: Wikipedia\nStill Existing: Yes","Source":"Wikipedia"},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.5596,50.8535,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"Church of the Holy Apostles","description":"\n\nDenomination: Roman Catholic\n\ndescription: This short-lived church was last listed in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arundel and Brighton's annual directories in 1994, and in April of that year a planning application to convert the building into a doctor's surgery was approved. Its registration for worship was formally cancelled in January 1998. \nSource: Wikipedia\nStill Existing: Yes","Source":"Wikipedia"},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.6103,50.8732,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"Church of the Holy Ghost","description":"\n\nDenomination: Roman Catholic\n\ndescription: Designed by B. Stevens and Partners, architects from Eastbourne, this church cost \u00a340,000 and opened in 1964. It was registered for marriages in 1965 and was last used in 1994; it was later sold and is now a car parts centre, sign-writing business and dance school. Early photographs show a deep porch along the whole fa\u00e7ade. \nSource: Wikipedia\nStill Existing: Yes","Source":"Wikipedia"},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.526,50.8514,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"Collegiate Church of St Mary in the Castle","description":"\n\nDenomination: Pre-reformation\n\ndescription: In 1070, William the Conqueror issued orders for the Castle at Hastings to be rebuilt in stone, along with the St Mary's Chapel.\nSource: \nStill Existing: Ruins","Source":""},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.584524,50.856032,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"Croft Congregational Church","description":"\n\nDenomination: Congregational\ndescription: The first Congregational (originally Independent) chapel in Hastings, a timber structure with weatherboarding and pointed-arched windows, dated from 1807. Thomas Elworthy built a new Free Renaissance Revival-style building on its site. The first stone was laid on 6 October 1876, and services commenced on 1 May 1877. \n\nAfter ceasing to be used as a place of worship, it was used by the local Cinematographer G.Ivan Barnett.\n\nThe red- and yellow-brick building stood until February 1972. \nSource: \nStill Existing: No","Source":""},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.5907,50.8583,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"Ebenezer Particular Baptist Chapel","description":"\n\nDenomination: Baptist\ndescription: Around 1809, Protestant Nonconformism\u2014prevalent throughout Sussex since the 17th century\u2014 made its first appearance in the form of a small chapel on Tackleway, behind the beach at Rock-a-Nore. \n\nCow Lodge Chapel was built for Strict Baptists and was attended by a David Fenner. A disagreement among the congregation led to the secession of some members in 1817. Fenner was one of the secessionists, and in that year he built a new chapel on a steeply sloping site behind Tackleway.\n\nLater, the road on which the chapel stood took the name Ebenezer from the chapel. The congregation grew throughout the 19th century as Hastings developed into a popular seaside resort. The religious census of Sussex in 1851 recorded that the chapel had 280 sittings, 135 of which were free; and attendances at the morning and afternoon services were given as 200 and 210 respectively. The minister David Fermer stated on the census return that \"the number of persons who attend Ebenezer Church amount to about 300, but seldom all meet at one service\".\n\nExtensions and alterations including a pedimented facade were made in 1872, 1882 and 1886,. Attendances declined in the late 20th century, and in common with many other former Baptist chapels in this area has been converted to housing.\n\nSource: \nStill Existing: Yes\n\n","Source":""},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.5961,50.8585,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"Gospel Mission Hall","description":"\n\nDenomination: Non-denominational\ndescription: This building on Kenilworth Road was registered for marriages between March 1920 and June 1982.Now believed to be a house.\n\nSource: Wikipedia\nStill Existing: Yes","Source":"Wikipedia"},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.5576,50.8527,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"Halton Kingdom Hall","description":"Denomination: Jehovah'sWitnesses\ndescription: This Kingdom Hall had to be demolished in 1998 as it was on the route of Southern Water's new stormwater sewage pipeline. It had been registered in March 1974 and succeeded a Kingdom Hall registered in 1956 in part of a building on Warrior Square, St Leonards-on-Sea. The congregation joined another Kingdom Hall which had been built subsequently in St Leonards-on-Sea. \nSource: \nStill Existing: No","Source":""},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.5897,50.8647,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"Holy Trinity Priory","description":"\n\nDenomination: Augustinian\n\ndescription: Holy Trinity Priory.\nThe Priory of the Holy Trinity was founded in around 1189- 1199, by Sir Walter de Scotney. De Scotney was a knight who accompanied Richard I on the third crusades and was later executed for poisoning his employer the Earl of Gloucester in 1259.\n\nThe order was run by Augustinian monks (also known as Black friars to differentiate them from the White friars who wore lighter coloured robes) The endowments of the house were small, amounting only to \u00a38 13s. 4d. in 1291. Licence was obtained in 1334 to acquire lands to the value of 100s., but the encroaching sea devoured their profits more rapidly than benefactors replaced them, and in a petition for leave to acquire lands to the amount of \u00a315 about this period\u2014possibly preceding the licence given\u2014the prior states that owing to the inundations three churches in Hastings, formerly worth \u00a3100, are now not worth 20s. \n\nThe three churches were no doubt St. Michael, St. Peter, and St. Margaret, but their original value was probably much exaggerated. The sea continued to encroach until at last the priory itself was in danger of being swept away, and Sir John Pelham in 1413 gave them a site at Warbleton to which Henry IV licensed them to remove;the king further gave them a grant for twenty years of the manor of Monkencourt in Withyham, late belonging to the alien priory of Mortain. After their settlement at Warbleton the canons were called by the title of 'the New Priory of Hastings.'. \n\nDespite this , the old priory at Hastings continued in use though much dilapidated and parts of it ruinous until the last Prior 'Richard Harmer' in 1527. Parts of the priory continued in use as farm buildings and the priory well and cistern were rediscovered whilst excavating foundations for housing on the site on the 1870s. The foundations of the priory still exist underneath the present building on the site - the old Sainsbury's supermarket (now ESK).\n\nSource: Leigh Kennedy/Hastings Archaeological Society.\n\nStill Existing: Ruins (under building).\n","Source":"Leigh Kennedy/Hastings Archaeological Society."},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.577493,50.855788,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"Mission Chapel","description":"\n\nDenomination: Non-Denominational\ndescription: A mission hall on Grove Road in the Redlake area of Ore was recorded on maps of various ages and by The London Gazette as a registered place of worship between May 1893 and April 1971, when its certification was cancelled.Was used for a period after this as the base of local music merchandising company 'Masons Music' and more recently an electrical contractor.\n\nSource: Wikipedia\nStill Existing: Yes","Source":"Wikipedia"},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.6077,50.875,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"Mount Pleasant Congregational Church","description":"\n\nDenomination: Congregational\ndescription: Demolished for a residential building in 1972, this large church has been called architect Thomas Elworthy's chef d'\u0153uvre. He built it in 1878\u201379 in the Early English Gothic Revival style with a corner tower topped with a spire. The building was of red brick dressed with terracotta. It was latterly known as St Mark's United Reformed Church, and the smaller replacement chapel on a nearby site took this name. Its marriage registration (granted in January 1881) was not formally cancelled until 1975. \nSource: http://www.stmarksurchastings.org.uk/history/\nStill Existing: No\n\n\n\n\n\n","Source":"http://www.stmarksurchastings.org.uk/history/"},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.582911,50.865369,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"Our Lady of Missions Convent Chapel","description":"\n\nDenomination: Roman Catholic\n\ndescription: This convent chapel was used for public Roman Catholic worship for a time (under the name St Joseph's Chapel). John Hicks designed the stuccoed building in the Baroque style in 1924; the convent was founded in 1903 on the site of Frederick North MP's house. It is now the centrepiece of a sheltered housing complex. \nSource: Wikipedia\nStill Existing: Yes","Source":"Wikipedia"},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.598,50.8639,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"Railway Mission Hall","description":"\n\nDenomination: Non-Denominational\ndescription: Tucked into one of the steep, staircase-flanked twittens that characterise inner Hastings, this chapel was built by the Railway Mission in 1891 to serve the religious needs of the town's railway workers. It later became the parish hall of St Mary-in-the-Castle Church, but is now disused. The red brick and stone building is in the Perpendicular Gothic style. \nSource: Wikipedia\nStill Existing: Yes","Source":"Wikipedia"},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.5836,50.857,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"Red Lake United Reformed Church","description":"Denomination: Congregational\ndescription: A Congregational chapel to serve Ore village and the northeastern suburbs of Hastings was opened in 1890. A new building on the same site on Grove Road was completed by Henry Ward in 1903. Built of red brick and stone, it was a Free-style interpretation of the Perpendicular Gothic Revival style. Worship continued in the church until 1974 (when its marriage registration, granted in July 1905, was cancelled) or 1976. The name Red Lake United Reformed Church was adopted after the union between the Congregational and Presbyterian Churches in 1972; prior to that its registered name was Redlake [sic] Congregational Church. \nSource: \nStill Existing: No\n","Source":""},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.6097,50.8757,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"St Andrew sub Castro","description":"\n\nDenomination: \ndescription: Not much is known about this ancient church.\n\n Castle cross cottages were built on the site of the ancient church of St Andrews sub castro and had an ancient cross built into the fabric of the building.\nSource: \nStill Existing: No\n\n\n\n","Source":""},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.583982,50.856714,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"St Andrews Church","description":"\n\nDenomination: Anglican\ndescription: The Church of the Parish of St.Andrew was erected in 1869, mostly at the expense of Miss Maria Jane Sayer, one of the locally powerful Sayer-Milward family who also provided an endowment fund to help meet the expenses of future repairs etc. \n\nThe building was consecrated on St. Andrews Day, 30th November 1870, and consisted of Nave, South Aisle, and Apse Chancel. It cost \u00a33,600 and had room for 450 people, 225 seats to be free for ever, for the use of the poorest parishioners.\n\nThe church also served as home to an artwork by the author Robert Tressell.\nSource: https://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/news/church-was-once-centre-of-now-vanished-parish-1-7865377\nStill Existing: No\n\n\n\n","Source":"https://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/news/church-was-once-centre-of-now-vanished-parish-1-7865377"},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.583334,50.859806,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"St Clements Church, Halton","description":"\n\nDenomination: Anglican\ndescription: The small aisleless church with tall lancets, a total of five at the west end was typical of its date. It was built in 1839 largely at the cost of the Countess Waldegrave, a leading early Victorian philanthropist in the town. There was a plain, single stone bellcote and originally it lacked a chancel.\nA chancel was added in 1888 (ESRO Par 368/4/6), almost as wide as the nave and with a vestry to the south. In that year there was an unsuccessful application to the ICBS for repairs and reseating, which named A W Jeffery and W Skiller as architects, so it is likely that they designed the new chancel. It cost only \u0152\u00a3150 and the name of the architect is otherwise not recorded. The church was closed in 1970\nSource: http://sussexparishchurches.org/product/hastings-st-clement-halton/\nStill Existing: Graveyard only\n","Source":"http://sussexparishchurches.org/product/hastings-st-clement-halton/"},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.594771,50.865616,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"St Columba's Church","description":"Denomination: Presbyterian\ndescription: J.T. Barker designed this church for the Presbyterian community in St Leonards-on-Sea in 1883. It was in the French Gothic Revival style and was mostly of brick: stone and red brickwork on the outside contrasted with a polychrome brick interior. The church, on the northwest corner of Warrior Square, was wrecked by a bomb during World War II. \nSource: \nStill Existing: No","Source":""},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.5614,50.8546,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"St Ethelburga's Mission Hall","description":"\n\nDenomination: Anglican\ndescription: St Ethelburga's Church established a mission chapel and church hall at nearby Glyne Gap in 1932. A loan from the Board of Charity Commissioners in 1938 helped to fund it. The building, on the Bexhill Road, was acquired for use as a nursery school in 1997. \nSource: Wikipedia\nStill Existing: Yes","Source":"Wikipedia"},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.5133,50.8477,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"St Helen's Church","description":"\n\nDenomination: Anglican\ndescription: The Old St Helen\u2019s Church is believed to be one of the oldest surviving buildings in Hastings. This and Hastings Castle are the only structures in the town from the 1066 period.\n\nThe ruins have features dating from the 11th to the 14th centuries. The dedication to St. Helen\u2019s and a nearby holy well are typically Saxon. The Church is a Grade II listed building and a scheduled monument. It lies in an Archaeologically Sensitive Area and a designated Conservation Area\n\nAlthough the original church was constructed in the 11th century there have been many alterations since that time. The earliest remaining structure from the 11th century church is the west front of the nave with its circular blocked in windows, and parts of the north wall. The tower dates from the 12th century.\n\n \n\nThe nave and chancel are roofless though much of the north wall survives. The east wall of the chancel contains the remains of a fine 14th century window. The remains of a canopied tomb dating to the 13th century can be seen on the inside north wall.\n\nThe churchyard is of interest as it contains memorials from the 17th century to the mid 19th century, and has lain untouched since the church was partly dismantled in 1870 to provide building materials for the new St Helen\u2019s Church on the Ridge. A number of the sandstone memorials are carved with symbols like the hour glass, angel\u2019s head and palm leaves. \nSource: http://www.oldsthelenschurch.org.uk/\nStill Existing: Ruins","Source":"http://www.oldsthelenschurch.org.uk/"},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.589557,50.880274,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"","description":"Denomination: Anglican\n\nThis church opened in 1877 in the parish of St Mary-in-the-Castle Church in central Hastings. In 1902, after St John the Evangelist's Church was built in the Hollington suburb, St James's Church became a chapel of ease to it. \nSource: \nStill Existing: No","Source":""},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.5528,50.8735,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"Name":"St Leonards Congregational Mission Church","description":"Denomination: Congregational\ndescription: Associated with St Leonards-on-Sea Congregational Church, this stood on Sedlescombe Road South until its demolition in the 1960s. \nSource: \nStill Existing: No","Source":""},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.5549,50.8673,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"St Leonards Methodist Church","description":"Denomination: Methodist\ndescription: J. Weir's Gothic Revival-style stone church of 1901, with a large tower topped by a spire, replaced an 1836 building on the same site. This was extended in 1862 but burnt down in 1900. The South East District of the Methodist Church authorised the closure of the church in April 2008, although its marriage registration had already been cancelled in October 2005. \nSource: Wikipedia\nStill Existing: Yes","Source":"Wikipedia"},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.5589,50.8522,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"St Leonards-on-Sea Congregational Church","description":"\n\nDenomination: Congregatonal\ndescription: Considered \"one of the most ambitious Nonconformist buildings in Sussex\", the sandstone building of 1863 forms a significant landmark on one of the Victorian resort's main roads\u2014despite the loss of its copper spire in the Great Storm of 1987. Unlike most churches of its denomination, it did not join the United Reformed Church when that denomination was formed in 1972. It fell out of religious use in 2008 and had stood empty and was at risk of demolition. English Heritage has listed the building at Grade II for its architectural and historical importance. Bought by a new owner in 2012, renovations were commenced with a view to converting it to an art gallery, but these unfortunately seem to have ground to a halt.\n\nSource: \nStill Existing: Yes","Source":""},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.5591,50.8548,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"St Mary's Chapel","description":"\n\nDenomination: Pre-reformation\ndescription: Norman-era stones were incorporated into the rebuilt 13th-century parish church of Bulverhythe, which was a prebend of the original St Mary-in-the-Castle Church. The last record of worship taking place in the building was in 1372, after which it became derelict and collapsed. Parts of the flint and stone walls and foundations of the chancel survive. The parish existed in name only until the 19th century. \nSource: Wikipedia\nStill Existing: Ruins","Source":"Wikipedia"},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.5102,50.8469,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"St Mary-in-the-Castle Church","description":"\n\nDenomination: Anglican\ndescription: The successor to an 11th-century collegiate church inside Hastings Castle, this Classical stuccoed church with Ionic columns formed the centrepiece of Joseph Kay's Pelham Crescent residential development on the seafront. Springs flowed from the cliff behind into a total immersion baptismal pool which can be seen to this day. It closed in 1970 and is now an arts centre. \nSource: Wikipedia\nStill Existing: Yes","Source":"Wikipedia"},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.5846,50.8556,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"St Michael's Chapel (Holy Child Jesus Convent)","description":"\n\nDenomination: Roman Catholic\n\ndescription: The convent was founded in about 1846, and Augustus Pugin started building this chapel in its grounds in 1848. His son Edward completed it. It was used (under the dedication St Michael and All Angels Church) for public Roman Catholic worship until 1868, when arguments over its ownership led to a new church being founded. The Gothic Revival building reverted to convent chapel status, and closed with the rest of the convent in 1974. \nSource: Wikipedia\nStill Existing: Yes","Source":"Wikipedia"},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.5667,50.8545,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"St Nicholas' Church","description":"\n\nDenomination: Anglican\ndescription: Known locally as \"The Fisherman's Church\", in the 1840s, the Rectors of All Saint's and St Clement's churches wished to provide the fishermen of the town with a church in their midst.\n\n Rev. J.G. Foyster, the rector of St Clement's Church,[6] arranged for a missionary, Tom Tanner, to base himself at Rock-a-Nore, and he commissioned architect William Gant to build a church. Gant, who had worked with architect Sir William Tite in London, had moved to Hastings in 1852 and was primarily a house and estate designer.The simple stone building cost \u00a3529 and was built in early 1854; the first service being on 26 March of that year.\n\nThe church was not parished: it was instead designated as a chapel of ease to All Saints Church. The fishing community was initially hostile to the church, and it closed during the 1870s; the selection of a popular new chaplain, Rev. Charles Dawes, re-energised it, and by the 1880s the 290-capacity building was full at every service.\n\nWhen World War II started, the church's strategic location on The Stade made it attractive to the military, who requisitioned it and turned it into an ordnance store. It suffered damage, and its future as a church was endangered when Hastings Council (into whose ownership it had passed) only offered a short-term lease. The Diocese of Chichester therefore closed it, and in the early 1950s it was used for general storage by fishermen and traders on the beach.\n\nSince 1956, the church has served as \"The Fisherman's Museum\"\n\nSource: wikipedia\nStill Existing: Yes","Source":"wikipedia"},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.5952,50.8561,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"St Paul's Church","description":"Denomination: Anglican\ndescription: The demolition in 1964 of this small but expensively built church was described by one historian as \"the most grievous loss among the Victorian churches of Hastings\". John Newton, who worked under Sir George Gilbert Scott before entering private practice, was its architect. There was a nave, chancel with apsidal end and a tower with decorative shafts. The interior was opulent, as were fixtures such as the pulpit and font. \n\nThe west window, depicting the Communion of saints, was designed in 1888 by Nathaniel Westlake.It was preserved and reused at St John's Church in Belmont, south London, in architect David Evelyn Nye's extension to that church (built in 1967). \nSource: \nStill Existing: No","Source":""},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.563008,50.8563,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"St Peter's Church","description":"Denomination: Anglican\ndescription: 'The Tin Tabernacle' perhaps more elaborate than typical iron churches, because an architect's name (one of the Habershon brothers) is given\u2014was erected in this outlying area of Hastings in 1863. It had a bellcote at the west end. It closed in 1979, and demolition was said to be pending in 1981. \nSource: \nStill Existing: No","Source":""},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.560786,50.888594,0]}},{"type":"Feature","properties":{"title":"St Wilfrid's Church","description":"\n\nDenomination: Anglican\ndescription: This was always an unparished mission church, and is no longer in religious use. For many years after its closure it housed the Chichester Diocesan Association for the Deaf. The Classical-style building is gabled, stuccoed and has a porch and pediment, and dates from the mid-1860s.Now a house.\n\nSource: Wikipedia\nStill Existing: Yes","Source":"Wikipedia"},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[0.5584,50.8542,0]}}]},"clicktarget":"","GeoJsonSource":"Churches","GeoJsonRevisionId":107996,"imageLayers":[],"locations":[],"imageoverlays":null}