East Beckham / Becchcha / Becham / Becsa

The Domesday entry for "Becchcha", transcribed and translated in Blomefield (1805-1810) reports "a church endowed with 2 acres and an half of land" in it; this author (ibid.) adds: "The church was a rectory [...] Here was the guild of St. Helen, to whom it is likely the church was dedicated." White's Directory of 1845 reports: "The Church (St. Helen,) has long been in ruins, finely mantled with ivy." Pevsner & Wilson (1997) note that West Beckham All Saints' was "demolished 1890 to make way for the new church, as was St. Helen, East Beckham". The new church of St. Helen and All Saints, West Beckham, did not inherit either of the earlier fonts; instead it got its own late 19th-century horrid plastic-looking font by Harbeston & Faulkner.