Christ Church is an Anglican church in the Ore area of Hastings. It is one of three Anglican churches with this dedication in the borough. The church was built in 1858 and is of a Gothic style, the most distinctive structural feature, a corner bell turret, has been described as both "outstanding" and "very naughty" by architectural historians.
Christ Church was listed at Grade II by English Heritage on 14 September 1976; this defines it as a "nationally important" building of "special interest". 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 parish of Christ Church covers the suburb of Ore east of the railway line, 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.
Architect and engineer Alexander Dick Gough was commissioned for the work. Closely associated until 1848 with Robert Lewis Roumieu, who was known for curious and distinctive Gothic designs, Gough's ecclesiastical work often showed unusual touches and was sometimes criticised in the influential journal The Ecclesiologist. Most of his churches were in London; Christ Church was his only commission in Sussex. He submitted his design in 1858, and the church was built over the course of the next year at a cost of £4,268 (equivalent to £374,800 in 2014). The foundation stone was placed by local philanthropist and church benefactor Countess Waldegrave on 23 November 1858. At first, the church was an unparished chapel of ease.
The church roof originally had vents to allow fumes from its gas lighting to escape, but these have been removed. Early in the 20th century, a carved timber reredos was added inside. A World War I memorial was erected next to the entrance porch soon after the war ended, and the original north transept was later converted into a vestry to form a memorial to victims of World War II. The church had been damaged by wartime bombing in February 1943, although it was soon repaired. The distinctive corner turret was comprehensively restored in 2003: work was carried out on its clock, bell, spire and the weathervane.
Its style is Decorated Gothic, and sandstone rubble and Kentish ragstone are the principal building materials. The roof is tiled with slate. The most distinctive feature of the exterior is the thin octagonal turret, bearing a clockface, containing a bell and topped with a spire and weathervane. Nikolaus Pevsner described this Victorian flourish as "very naughty". 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.
2014 Wikipedia; Christ Church, Ore [Online] Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_Church,_Ore
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A = The number of Baker's
B = Using White's first initial in its position in the alphabet (e.g. a-1, b-2, c-3 etc)
C = Number of Foord's
D = Number of Cook's
E = Number of Osgathorpe's
f = J Belsey's position in the list
N50 [AxF+B-D].[C-D][F-D][A+C+D]
E0 [F+B+C].[(F/E)-E][AxE+C][C+E]
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