Cousins 1291 Map
This Map of 1291 was used by the historian Mr. T. H. Cole to illustrate his theory and contention that a Roman Settlement existed on or near the site of our town, and that the submerged town was some distance south of White Rock, and west of the Castle and Priory. The map in its original form was drawn for an Ecclesiastical Register ordered by Pope Nicholas IV, for taxation purposes, and was augmented for Cole's book “Antiquities of Hastings”, and is useful to students and readers. By following the key, the reader will be able to locate the churches and other places known to have existed, but long since disappeared, through inundation of the sea and other causes.
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No. 1. All Saints' Church.
No. 2. Court House (mentioned as the prison erected by the Abbot of Fecamp) giving the name to Courthouse Street, stood on the present site of the Police and Fire Station at the bottom of Courthouse Street, and facing Bourne Street.
No. 3. Hospital Chapel. St. Mary Magdalen Hospital Chapel, a view of the ruins of which is shown elsewhere [in [[Henry Cousins (1843-1928)|Cousins]] book], and formerly stood near De Cham Avenue.
No. 4. Hundred. Or the Hundred Place. The site of this is shown in the Corporation Map of 1746. And was an open place with an entrance in High Street, near Mr. Stanger's Shop (No. 57) and Winding Street or Lane, where the election of M.P's, Mayors, and Jurats, was carried out for centuries. (See Moss's guide, 1824.)
No. 5. Lady's Parlour. Part of the Castle Ward outside the walls and the inner ditch or trench.
No. 6. Warrior's Gate. Norman Road, near the site of the present Warrior's Gate Hotel, so called as having some connection with the assembly of warriors before the Battle of Hastings.
No. 7. Priory. On the banks of the old Haven. The Priory of the Holy Trinity which existed in the 12th Century, 1191 (Richard I) and destroyed by the sea about 1430.
No. 8. The Watergate. This stood at the north end of Bourne Street, and is more fully described [elsewhere Cousins’ book] in connection with the Bourne Stream and Bourne Street and the remains are there shewn.
No. 9. The College. This refers to the College and Chapel of St. Mary-in-the-Castle within the Castle Walls.
No. 10. Roman Iron Works. On the Banks of the old Haven.
No. 11. Embankments. Off White Rock spoken of in connection with the submerged town.
No. 12. Town Wall and Towers.
No. 13. Watershed between the Bourne and Priory Valleys. The Market Cross, Gensing Manor, Ore Manor, Old Roar, Hole Farm. The Old Pier (Elizabeth's Reign), Roman Camp, and Pharos (or lighthouse) are also shown. The Haven, which Mr. T. H. Cole claims to be the Partus Novus (or new Port) of the Romans.
