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St Leonard

St Leonard

Portslade by Sea

East Sussex

1878 nave (now south aisle) and tower on site of former Medieval church, 1936 nave, chancel and spire.

Architectural Features

Dressed knapped flint, squared and coursed, stone dressings and quoins, north wall of brick, clay tile roof, coped verges, broached spire with wooden shingles.

Stained glass: East window dated 1948.

Chancel with fine display of Minton floor tiles

Replica medieval font.

The C13 parish church was described as ruinous in 1638 and between the mid C18 and early C19 the parish of Aldrington was deserted.

If anything of the medieval church remained in the 1870s, it did not survive the rebuilding.