The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Brighton and Hove (now)
Parish church
West Blatchington church fell into disrepair in the 18thc. and was rebuilt in 1890 with a nave, chancel and vestry. The foundations of the W end of the nave, which extended beyond the present building, have been uncovered. A N aisle was added in 1961-62 to a design by J L Dedman. In 1973 the VCH mentioned the presence of fragments in the N wall. These are no longer visible and were probably removed in 1961-2.
Parish church
East Blatchington is a village in East Sussex that has now merged into Seaford, a town on the Sussex coast midway between Brighton and Eastbourne. The church consists of a chancel, rebuilt c.1200, a nave that was originally Norman, and a 13thc W tower with a later broach spire. A S aisle was added to the nave in the 13thc, but later removed - the blocked arcade is still visible. The chancel was restored by Ewan Christian in 1860. There is no Romanesque sculpture here now, but according to Arthur Mee, 'the Norman font was found buried in the churchyard' (Mee 1964, 65). The church now has a modern marble font. No photographs of the Norman font are known.