being enlarged in 1841, the same year Ore Place was purchased by General Sir Howard Elphinstone. I also remember the last service performed in the old Church in 1870, previous to its being disused, when a large number of children were baptised. The late Rev. Dr. Fearon laboured there for many years, and lived at the Rectory, in Ore Lane." His name is perpetuated in Fearon Road, called after him. The ruins of the Church are almost hidden by the trees that surround it.
The Borough Cemetery is close by. It was opened in 1856, and the first body buried in it was that of a man named Smith, who was contractor for the Earl of Chichester, for cutting down and clearing the Castle Cliffs for building purposes.
"In 1269, John of Gaunt received the Honour of Hastings and built a house adjoining Ore Church," Cole's Antiquities, p. 95. This will be found on the Map of 1291. It is recorded in Horsfield's " Sussex " that " it was built by John O'Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, and afterwards converted into a religious house." After General Sir Howard Elphinstone's widow's death, the house was purchased by a Mr. T. Pannell, who resold it in 1863 to Mr. T. B. Spalding, by whom the old house was practically re-built ; but in one of the windows were the Arms of John of Gaunt. It is now a very extensive house and grounds used as a College for Jesuits and Students. Its position is on an eminence and commands most -
