Christ Church, Ore

The ancient Cinque Port and fishing town of Hastings evolved into a seaside resort in the 19th century. The arrival of two separate railway routes from London (one via Lewes, the other via Tunbridge Wells) and improved road links helped this; the population doubled from about 11,000 a few years before these developments to 23,000 20 years later. The town, previously focused around the seafront area, grew inland, and Ore—a small linear village on the road to Rye—was gradually absorbed into the urban area. It was first recorded in the early 12th century, although its Anglo-Saxon name (derived from ora, meaning a ridge or slope) suggests earlier settlement, and a parish church was built on…

Christ Church is an "intact and distinctive Gothic Revival church". The roof is tiled with slate. The most distinctive feature of the exterior The plan consists of a chancel, nave of five bays and with an aisle on the north side (on a brick base), organ chamber, two vestries (one originally a transept) and two porches with gables. The exterior has buttresses all the way round, some with steeply gabled upper sections. The church is oriented north–south, at right-angles to liturgical directions. The windows, all lancets, have intricate tracery. The (liturgical) west window is large, with seven lights, and the east window is similar. Stained glass was added to two nave windows by the Heaton,…

(closed 2007) is now in the parish.]] Christ Church was listed at Grade II by English Heritage on 14 September 1976; In February 2001, it was one of 521 Grade II listed buildings, and 535 listed buildings of all grades, in the borough of Hastings. The church is one of three active Anglican churches in the borough of Hastings with the dedication "Christ Church", and the earliest. The others are at Laton Road in the suburb of Blacklands (1878–81) and on London Road in St Leonards-on-Sea (1875). north and east to the borough boundary, and south to Frederick, Mount and Edwin Roads. It has merged with the former parish of All Souls Church at Athelstan Road, Clive Vale, which closed in 2007. On…