Chapel on the Hill, Sedlescombe
Chapel on the Hill, Sedlescombe
The Chapel on the Hill is a United Reformed church on Chapel Hill, Sedlescombe, East Sussex, built in 1879 for a village nonconformist congregation.
- Location
- Sedlescombe, Sussex
- Country
- England
- County
- Sussex
- City / town
- Sedlescombe
- Address
- Chapel Hill, Sedlescombe, Sussex, TN33 0QX
- Postcode
- TN33 0QX
- Built
- 1879; manse 1907
- Architect
- Thomas Elsworthy; built by William Bourns of St Leonards
- Denomination
- United Reformed Church
- Style
- Victorian chapel
- Materials
- Brick with terracotta dressings
- Opening hours
- Open by appointment.
- Access
- Accessible toilets in church. Level access throughout. Level access to the main areas. Ramp or level access available on request
Overview
The National Churches Trust records that local men who had met on the village green raised a chapel in five months. It opened on Wednesday 26 November 1879, designed by Thomas Elsworthy and built by William Bourns of St Leonards at a cost of £500, to seat 200, in brick with terracotta dressings. Reform magazine notes that the congregation had previously used an unheated outhouse; a group later built a Congregational church next door that closed after about twenty years and became a police station.
A manse for an evangelist was built in 1907 and remains in use. In November 2016 Storm Angus brought down a large ash tree onto the roof; the structure held, and the chapel reopened after about four months. The building is not on the National Heritage List for England. The United Reformed Church has no diocese.