Talk:List of demolished places of worship in East Sussex

Notes to self

 * SAC vol 118, p389 (1980): "The Church of Sir Richard de Wych and the Thompson Family of Ashdown Park, Hartfield –Historical note" will be relevant!  Hassocks  5489 (tickets please!)  22:46, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Mission chapel at Cowbeech: survived in 1961 according to OS map. Situated on W side of road to Foul Mile, near Church Farm.  Hassocks  5489 (tickets please!)  13:01, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
 * This mentions chapels at Duddleswell, Shortbridge, Ringmer, Ditchling, Pevensey, East Dean, Plumpton, Chailey and Waldron.
 * This mentions Bodiam, Hurst Green, Ewhurst, Guestling, East Guldeford and Icklesham.
 * This mentions Waldron (again), Hellingly, Sluice (Normans Bay), Netherfield, Fairlight, Ashburnham, Caves Road (Hastings), Guestling (again) and Icklesham (again).
 * Check others under here
 * Also remember that one at Mill Corner, Northiam.  Hassocks  5489 (tickets please!)  13:59, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
 * SAC article on St Clement's Church and Croft CC, Hastings
 * Use this search to look for other SAC articles Hassocks  5489 (tickets please!)  13:39, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Boreham Street Congregational Chapel at Boreham Street was here: 50.877756,0.369836 (see here) Hassocks  5489 (Floreat Hova!)  21:34, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Co-ordinate error
The co-ordinates for the Turf Chapel in Little Common can't be correct, since they locate the church not in Little Common but in the same location as Haddocks Hill Primitive Methodist Chapel in Bexhill-on-Sea. --Pfold (talk) 13:37, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Good catch – thanks; I have now fixed.  Hassocks  5489 (Floreat Hova!)  17:41, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the speedy correction - and for all your work on these Sussex church pages! --Pfold (talk) 19:56, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

Motts Mill Chapel
I think I've identified the location of Motts Mill Chapel. The 1899 & later 6" OS maps have a "Mission Room" marked on the Corseley Road at 51.094982°N 0.169639°E (TQ5206535151). Is this consistent with the printed sources? --Pfold (talk) 20:56, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, I think that has to be it. I had a look at Littleton and Chambers; although neither was explicit about the location (other than saying it was the hamlet of Mott's Mill), both said it was about 2 miles from Forest Fold in the Groombridge direction, which matches your coordinates.  Chambers indicates that it was "disposed of" after 1907, which suggests it passed to another denomination rather than being demolished immediately—which is consistent with its appearance on later maps.  After studying the maps on old-maps.co.uk, I think the coordinates are approx. 51.095549°N 0.170255°E, which puts it a little further up the road directly on the junction with the little unnamed lane.  It must have been next to the weatherboarded house directly on the road (see Google maps).   Hassocks  5489 (Floreat Hova!)  09:09, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Given the tiny number of houses in Motts Mill, there can't really have been another chapel somewhere else in the hamlet. --Pfold (talk) 13:21, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

St Aidan's, Eastbourne.
According to Wilcox (2004, p. 136) St Aiden's Methodist Church was in Longstone Road before Whitley Road, and he dates it to 1897 (he dates Whitley Road to 1911). The 1898 25" OS map shows a "Meth. Chap." on Longstone Road at 50.7715 0.2892. The houses now on the site are self-evidently more recent than the rest of the terrace. --Pfold (talk) 18:57, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

A lost Newhaven Baptist Church.
The description of the current Newhaven Baptist Church at List_of_places_of_worship_in_Lewes_District mentions a previous church founded in 1835. The OS maps show that it clearly wasn't on the same site, but Wilcox (p.30) lists a Baptist church at "South Street" founded in 1835, later a Boys' Club. The 1890 OS maps show a chapel on the east side of South Road at the position now occupied by No. 14 South Road). The 1955 OS map labels this building "Shakespeare Hall (Boys' Club)". This is clearly the building referred to by Wilcox, and it does seem very likely that this is the earlier chapel of the current Newhaven Baptist Church. --Pfold (talk) 14:00, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I've just realised that the building at 14 South Road is listed at List_of_places_of_worship_in_Lewes_District with the closed churches for Newhaven as former Primitive Methodist Chapel from 1885. However there's no sign of another chapel on South Road in the OS maps. Things aren't helped by the fact that Newhaven Historic Character Assessment cites: "a Baptist chapel (Chapel Street, 1875), a Primitive Methodist chapel (South Road, 1885), a Wesleyan Methodist chapel (Chapel Street, 1893)," and there is, again, only one chapel on Chapel Street. Somehow we're a Baptist chapel short on one of these streets and one of the sources is mistaken about where it was. --Pfold (talk) 17:28, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Another Congregational Church in Jarvis Brook?
The 1908 OS map shows a "Cong. Church" on Windsor Rd. in Jarvis Brook at exactly the co-ordinates of the current Kingdom Hall (51.0484°N 0.1864°E). It's not there on the 1897 map, but a church is still marked on the 1954-57 1" map (though it's not labelled, so might not still be Congregational). Still, this is 30 years before the foundation of the Kingdom Hall. Wilcox only lists one Cong. Church in Jarvis Brook - clearly the one already listed in this article at Tubwell Lane. The Windsor Road one (clearly identified as being next to the Memorial Hall) is mentioned here: . --Pfold (talk) 23:22, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

St Martin, South Heighton
This church was located at 50.8064N 0.0578W. The 1898 OS map already says "remains of", the 1956 map simply says "site of". Wilcox says it "burnt down in 18th cent, replaced by an iron building in 1894". --Pfold (talk) 12:22, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

A Methodist mission hall in Bexhill
The 1909 25" OS map has a Mission Hall on Hamilton Road (now Chandler Road), Bexhill, at 50.8453°N, 0.4606°E. Wilcox (NIPR Sussex) gives this as Wesleyan Methodist with dates of 1898-1921. A newspaper snippet in Genes Reunited, preseumably from the newspaper archive, seems to confirm this: it cites an article from the Bexhill-on Sea Observer (30 Nov 1901): "HAMILTON ROAD WESLEYANS. TEMPERANCE MEETING The series of monthly meetings organised at Hamilton Road Wesleyan Mission Hall by Mr. C. A. Goble..." --Pfold (talk) 18:55, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

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