Ore nr. Hastings
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Scene Description: the old church tower [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: B&W photograph reproduced in Sussex Parish Churches [www.sussexparishchurches.org/content/view/226/34/] [accessed 30 January 2013]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 18297ORE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Helen
Church Patron Saints: St. Helena
Church Location: Ore Place, Hastings, East Sussex TN34 2UG
Country Name: England
Location: East Sussex, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the A259; it is now a northern suburb of Hastings
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Church Notes: the old church is now in ruins, except for its restored tower, which stands by the 19th-century building, also dedicated to St. Helen
Font Notes:
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The old church, now in ruins by the later one, was still standing ca. 1870 and is described in Wilson's 1870 Imperial Gazetter: "The old parochial church is a plain edifice of nave, S aisle, and chancel, with porch, vestry, and low tower". Harrison (1920) reports: "The E[arly] E[nglish] church (13th c.) is in ruins ; but the old font has been placed in the partially restored tower." The Sussex Parish Churches site [www.sussexparishchurches.org/content/view/226/34/] [accessed 30 January 2013] informs: "A broken font, probably C12, is kept in the tower."
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 331738 5638327
REFERENCES
Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920
Wilson, John Marius, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales: embracing recent changes in counties, dioceses, parishes, and boroughs [...], Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., 1870-1872