Lewes St Thomas at Cliffe Sussex Family History Guide
Lewes St Thomas at Cliffe, also known as St Thomas at Cliffe or Lewes St Thomas à Becket Cliffe, is an Ancient Parish in the county of Sussex.
Parish church: St. Thomas-à-Becket-in-the-Cliffe
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1606
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1667
Nonconformists include: Calvinist, Countess of Huntingdon Methodist, and Independent/Congregational.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
Kelly’s Directory of Sussex 1915
The church of St. Thomas a-Becket-in-the-Cliffe, built during the 15th century on an older foundation, is of
flint and stone, in the Perpendicular style, and has a tower containing a clock and 4 bells: in the church is a Dutch painting of “The Ascension,” c.1770: there are five memorial windows, one, erected at a cost of £140, being a memorial of the Diamond Jubilee of H.M. the late Queen Victoria,: in 1879 and 1888 the interior was repaired and remodelled, at a cost of £2,051, and affords 310 sittings. The register dates from the year 1606. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £335, including 17 acres of glebe and residence. in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held since 1914 by the Rev. Charles Clark Snell M.A. of Jesus College, Cambridge.
Historical Maps
Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps
Administration
- County: Sussex
- Civil Registration District: Lewes
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Archbishop of Canterbury for the Exempt Deanery of South Malling
- Diocese: Chichester
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1846 – None, 1846-1858 – South Malling
- Poor Law Union: Lewes
- Hundred: Lewes Borough
- Province: Canterbury