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Offline AmandaJ

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Hankham History
« on: Saturday 30 April 11 20:58 BST (UK) »
Hi I am wondering if anyone knows anything about the' Tin Tabernacle' at hankham near Eastbourne. When it was built/ demolished. I think it was called st michaels and All angels.

Also any history regarding hankham cross which as far as I am aware is roughly where Foords Lane meets hankham road.

Odd request i know, but I have looked online and there is not much more information than I have already typed.

Offline stanmapstone

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Re: Hankham History
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 30 April 11 22:55 BST (UK) »
It was not a really a "tabernacle". Tabernacle was a term generally  applied disparagingly to  Nonconformist churches made partly of corrugated iron. Could this be the church?
St, Michael's and All Angels, a chapel of ease to the parish church of St. Mary's, was consecrated 5th March 1902. A temporary iron nave has been attached, with accommodation for 425 worshippers. The site, including that of the old Ocklynge Mission room, was the gift of the Duke of Devonshire K.G. Kelly's Directory of Sussex, 1905
 In the Kelly's Directory of Sussex, 1915 it just says of Hankham there is an iron church seating 120 persons.

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Re: Hankham History
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 01 May 11 08:29 BST (UK) »
Tin tabernacles are quite common in Sussex.     All those local to me were an offshoot of the C of E parish church, as the Hankham one was.  There was a big article about them in one of the broadsheet newspapers a few years ago which you might find on a google search.
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