Historic churches · South East England
Christ Church
Christ Church — church in Hastings, Sussex, England, UK.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 30 min–1 h
- Nearest railway station
- St Leonards Warrior Square · 0.2 km
- Free entry
About
Christ Church is a historic church in the United Kingdom. Records date its origin to 1860. Designed by Arthur Blomfield. Heritage designation: Grade II* listed building. Affiliated with Anglicanism. Wikidata describes it as: "church in Hastings, Sussex, England, UK". Coordinates: 50.8538°, 0.5593°.
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Christ Church is an Anglican church in the town and seaside resort of St Leonards-on-Sea, part of the Borough of Hastings in East Sussex, England. Opened as the town's third Anglican church in 1860 to serve a rapidly developing residential area and to accommodate poor worshippers who could not afford pew rents at the fashionable St Leonard's and St Mary Magdalene's Churches, the original building was superseded by a much larger church built next to it between 1873 and 1875. Prolific ecclesiastical architect Sir Arthur Blomfield's simple Gothic Revival design forms a landmark on one of St Leonards-on-Sea's main roads, continues to serve a large area of the town (including the former parish of the now closed St Mary Magdalene's Church) and maintains a strong Anglo-Catholic tradition.
From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
Christ Church is an Anglican church in the town and seaside resort of St Leonards-on-Sea, part of the Borough of Hastings in East Sussex, England. Opened as the town's third Anglican church in 1860 to serve a rapidly developing residential area and to accommodate poor worshippers who could not afford pew rents at the fashionable St Leonard's and St Mary Magdalene's Churches, the original building was superseded by a much larger church built next to it between 1873 and 1875. Prolific ecclesiastical architect Sir Arthur Blomfield's simple Gothic Revival design forms a landmark on one of St Leonards-on-Sea's main roads, continues to serve a large area of the town (including the former parish of the now closed St Mary Magdalene's Church) and maintains a strong Anglo-Catholic tradition. It has been described as Blomfield's "finest achievement in Sussex" and "one of the main centres of Anglo-Catholic worship in Southern England". The interior fittings are the best of any church in the borough, and the design has been called one of Blomfield's most successful. St John the Evangelist's Church, founded as a daughter church nearby in 1865, also continues to thrive as a separate parish church. Historic England has listed Christ Church at Grade II* for its architectural and historical importance.
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Background
History
The seaside town of Hastings, founded in the 8th century, developed as an important trading hub, ecclesiastical centre and the chief Cinque Port by the Middle Ages. There were seven churches by the end of the 13th century. All but two vanished by the 18th century, but after a period of decline the town grew in importance again from that time and was a fashionable resort by the 1820s. In that decade, builder and speculator James Burton bought land immediately to the west from the Eversfield baronets and founded a high-class new town, designed to his specifications. St Leonards-on-Sea, which took its name from one of the ancient churches of Hastings, The new community had two Anglican…
Architecture
The original church of 1860 was a sandstone-built Early English Gothic Revival building, and Arthur Blomfield's new church was a much larger and more ambitious, although still simple, version of the same style. It is a very long and tall church, especially inside. The "impressive" buttressed east end faces the main London Road and has a five-light lancet window and paired lancets below the gable. To the northeast, the partly ashlar-faced tower rises in four stages with an octagonal upper stage containing bells. There are also lancets, lucarnes and stone gargoyle carvings. The tower is of Bath Stone with a Portland stone roof and rises to 119+3/4 ft; the spire adds a further 64+1/2 ft, and…
Description
(background), closed in 2008.]] Christ Church was listed at Grade II* by Historic England on 14 September 1976. As of February 2001, it was one of 13 Grade II* listed buildings, and 535 listed buildings of all grades, in the borough of Hastings. Its former daughter church, St John the Evangelist's, is also listed at Grade II*, as is the nearby St Peter's Church; other churches with listed status in St Leonards-on-Sea are St Leonard's Anglican church, St Leonard's Baptist Church, St Mary Magdalene's Church (now Greek Orthodox), the Roman Catholic Church of St Thomas of Canterbury and English Martyrs and the former St Leonards-on-Sea Congregational Church further up London Road. Each of these…
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- Coordinates
- 50.8538, 0.5593
- County
- East Sussex
- District
- Hastings
- Parish
- Hastings, unparished area
- Postcode
- TN37 6AS
- Parliamentary constituency
- Hastings and Rye
- Established
- 1860
- Nearest railway station
- St Leonards Warrior Square — 0.2 km
- Official site
- www.christchurchstleonards.co.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q5108715 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Christ Church, St Leonards-on-Sea (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Christ Church, St Leonards-on-Sea (from Northeast).JPG (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Christ Church?
- Christ Church is in East Sussex, South-East England, United Kingdom (postcode TN37 6AS), in the parish of Hastings, unparished area.
- When was Christ Church built?
- Built or established in 1860. Designed by Arthur Blomfield.
- Is Christ Church a listed building?
- Christ Church is officially recognised as Grade II* listed building listed.
- Is Christ Church free to visit?
- Yes, Christ Church is free to enter.
- How do I get to Christ Church?
- The nearest railway station is St Leonards Warrior Square, about 0.2 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode TN37 6AS.