St Michael And All Angels
Mount Pleasant
East Sussex
Norman tower and apse, broached spire added subsequently, N aisle added C1795, aisle and nave lengthened 1810, vestry added 1825, S aisle and S-E porch erected 1854 when church refitted and W gallery built, west porch added 1961 and church restored. (The latter was then linked by a covered walkway to the coeval flat-roofed church rooms - not of special interest.) Mid C19 work by William Gilbert Habershon.
Architectural Features
2-storey tower with broached spire, gargoyles on corbel table below eaves, moulded string course upon which rests 2-lightbell-openings, the E window just above roof ridge of apse, N window has original shaft with shaft ring.
Timberposts to 5-bay Tudor-arch head arcades with pierced quatrefoilspandrels.
Mid C19 fittings including fontwith cover, pulpit, brass lecturn, elegant brass gas-mantel brackets(converted to electricity), late C19 stained glass in apse and tower.Turned oak altar rails presented 1961.
the river subsequently altered its courseafter a great storm in 1570
Meeching became Newhaven with the growthof the port in the C17.