Bexhill Buildings

The Manor House is thought to have been built in about 1250. It was the easternmost residence of the bishops of Chichester and they would have stayed here while travelling around their territory. After Viscount Cantelupe married Muriel Brassey, in 1891, the Manor House was refurbished and they moved in in the following year –

As the population of the new town of Bexhill grew, in 1891 a new parish of St Barnabas was created from the original, old parish of St Peter. In 1898, the St. Barnabas Boys’ School opened in Reginald Road. It closed during the Second World War, but, unlike the Infant’s and the Girls’ school in

As the population of the new town of Bexhill grew, in 1891 a new parish of St Barnabas was created from the original, old parish of St Peter. In 1893, a mixed Infants’ School was opened on the corner of Sackville Road and Western Road (the building that is now occupied by Bexhill Library). In

  “York Hall” was built in 1895 and the “Bexhill Observer’s” first publication, on 9th May 1896, reports on a meeting of the Baptists being held there and this became a regular meeting place for them until their chapel was built. Other assemblies took place in the Hall as did Council meetings. On 17th March,

The church was built on the corner of the new Parkhurst Road and Sackville Road, and opened in 1896 – the photograph above appears to have been taken at the opening. The buildings on either side of the church show houses or, more probably, shops still in the stage of construction. Vestries were added to

The Sackville Hotel was, originally, a row of four dwellings incorporated into one large building. It was opened by Lord Delaware in July 1890 and marked the beginning of the fashionable resort which flourished until the First World War. It is on the corner of Middlesex Road and De La Warr Parade. The Earl’s son

The town’s only surviving railway station was opened in 1902 and served the London Brighton and South Coast Railway’s line that was built in 1846. A halt had been built when the line was opened in 1846 and this was replaced by a full station fake watches at Devonshire Square in 1891 after the resort

The police station and magistrate’s court at Cantelupe Road were opened in January, 1903.and the “Bexhill Observer”, dated 10th, gives a report on the description of the building. The report states that the new police-station and the courthouse were built as a single unit in a aristocratic, private residential part of the town, which, as

The Victoria Hall was built by Mr. Stewart and opened in 1887. It was called the Victoria Hall because 1887 was Queen Victoria’s golden jubilee. The Hall was a Congregationalist church but was also used as a private school and for public events. St. John’s Church was designed by Mr. Henry Ward who also designed