All Saints

EXTERIOR The exterior is almost wholly early C15 in appearance, and mainly of a single building campaign.

The aisles and chancel have C15 windows with vertical tracery

The S porch, rebuilt in the C19, has a chequerboard gable with a small, possibly Anglo-Saxon cross reset within it.

The outer opening has multiple narrow mouldings and a hood mould, and is very similar to the C15 S door.

INTERIOR Like the outside, the interior is consistently of the C15, and also like the outside, the tower is the architectural showpiece.

The central opening for the bell ropes carved with animals and foliage, and there are small, carved fleur-de-lys scattered across the surface of the vault webs.

Four bay N and S nave arcades of the C15 on polygonal piers with moulded capitals, the arches with multiple mouldings and stops above the capitals.

Tall, wide C15 chancel arch with continuous mouldings.

Over it is a C15 doom painting.

A C15 window in the chancel N wall now opens into the organ chamber, and another has had its sill raised to allow for the door to the N vestry.

PRINCIPAL FIXTURES Excellent C15 doom painting above the chancel arch, with Christ seated on rainbows, flanked by the Punishment of the Damned and the Heavenly Jerusalem.

Piscina and three-seat C15 sedilia in the chancel with cusped arches and openwork tracery spandrels.

Polygonal C15 font with alternating quatrefoils and blind arches on the bowl and blind arcading on the stem.

Large C19 reredos, extending up on either side of the E window, with figures, inscriptions and other motifs in tracery panels.

C19 timber and stone pulpit, the upper part with open tracery sides.

Good C19 choir stalls with open arcaded fronts, foliage carving and kneeling angels on the arms, said to have been brought from St Paul's, Bohemia Road, St Leonard's after its closure.

Some good C19 and C20 glass, including the fine pictorial E window of 1861 by Gibbs, two S aisle windows in an entirely Baroque mode commemorating the Rev Webster Whistler, d.1832, and another of the mid C20 to members of the Eaton family.

Monuments include a brass to Thomas Goodenough and his wife Margaret, c.1520

also a large incised slab to a civilian and wife, c.1458, possibly not English.

Pre-Victorian style brass with an urn and drapery to John Edmonds, d.1847, and another to Rev Webster Whistler.

Six hatchments in the nave, and an unusually late C20 hatchment of 1963 in the S aisle.

Royal Arms of George II, painted in 1755 by Roger Mortimer

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES Some good monuments in the churchyard.

HISTORY The church of All Saints was given to Fecamp abbey in Normandy in the early C11, but the church may then have been on a different site.

The church was rebuilt on its present site in the early C15 and was called `new' in a will of 1436.

SOURCES Buildings of England: Sussex , 519-20 A Guide to the Ancient Church of All Saints, Hastings REASONS FOR DESIGNATION The church of All Saints, Hastings, is designated at Grade II* for the following principal reasons: * Parish church of a single, early C15 build, restored by Butterfield in 1870. * Good W tower with tierceron vault. * Excellent C15 wall painting of a Doom over the chancel arch. * Brass of 1520 to Thomas Goodenough and wife, incised slab of 1458, some C19 brasses. * Some good C19 and C20 glass including pictorial E window by Gibbs of 1861.