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St Helen

St Helen

Portslade by Sea

East Sussex

C12 nave, C13 tower, chancel C1300, C14

Architectural Features

C15 wall paintings, minor restorations 1870 and 1929, porch and vestry added 1949, tower embattled and reroofed, wallpaintings restored 1969.

Coursed flint pebble facing, laid in herringbone pattern to nave, Caen stone quoins, clay tile roofs, pyramid roof to tower.

Said to contain remains of wall paintings discovered on the north wall during the restoration works in 1949

these include early C13 scrollwork in the splays of one of the windows,

other C14

C15 work though barely visible.

C14 Gothic-style wooden screen, panelling and reredos erected 1925 in memory of William Nevett.

Pulpit from St Leonards, Aldrington (qv).