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St Peter and Attached Walls

St Peter And Attached Walls

Preston

East Sussex

C13, nave heavily restored 1872 by James Woodman with the rebuilding of the north porch and addition of the south vestry

Architectural Features

Flint with stone dressings, roof of tiles.

INTERIOR: the altar is a chest-tomb, said to be of Edward Elrington who died in 1515, the front carved with shields in quatrefoils.

choir stalls in broadly Gothic style carved with foliage and figurative ornament

stained-glass windows in memory of the Stanford family.

Remains of piscina in the south wall of the nave, and of early C14 wall paintings either side of the chancel arch and between the 2 easternmost windows on the north wall of the nave: Nativity on the north wall, the murder of St Thomas a Becket north of the chancel arch, and St Michael weighing souls to the south.