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==Places of worship== {{main|List of places of worship in Lewes (district)}} [[File:St Leonard's Church, Seaford (IoE Code 292573).jpg|thumb|right|St Leonard's Church, in the town centre, has 11th-century origins.]] Parts of the [[nave]], [[Aisle#Architercture|aisles]] and [[clerestory]] of the [[Church of England parish church]] of [[Leonard of Noblac|St Leonard]] are [[Norman architecture|Norman]] work from the 11th century.<ref name=Nairn603>{{cite book |last1=Nairn |first1=Ian |last2=Pevsner |first2=Nikolaus |author2-link=Nikolaus Pevsner |series=[[The Buildings of England]] |title=Sussex |year=1965 |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] |location=Harmondsworth |isbn=0-14-071028-0 |page=603}}</ref> The north and south [[Arcade (architecture)|arcades]] and most of the clerestory windows are [[Early English Gothic]].<ref name=Nairn603/> The tower is 14th century and its upper part is [[Perpendicular Gothic]].<ref name=Nairn603/> The [[transept]]s and polygonal [[apse]] are [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic Revival]] additions designed by [[John Billing]] and built in 1861β82.<ref name=Nairn603/> There is some modern [[stained glass]] by the [[Cox & Barnard]] firm of [[Hove]].<ref name="SGR-22033">{{cite web|url=http://www.stainedglassrecords.org.uk/Ch.asp?ChId=22033|title=Stained Glass Windows at St. Leonard, Seaford, Sussex|last=Eberhard|first=Robert|date=September 2011|work=Stained Glass Records website|publisher=Robert Eberhard|access-date=16 February 2012|archive-date=2 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402221652/http://www.stainedglassrecords.org.uk/Ch.asp?ChId=22033|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="SPC-3634">{{cite web|url=http://www.sussexparishchurches.org/content/view/36/34/|title=Seaford β (1) St Leonard and (2) St Luke|last=Allen|first=John|date=11 April 2011|work=Sussex Parish Churches website|publisher=Sussex Parish Churches (www.sussexparishchurches.org)|access-date=16 February 2012|archive-date=2 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402013902/http://www.sussexparishchurches.org/content/view/36/34/|url-status=live}}</ref> The church is a Grade I [[listed building]].<ref name="IoE292573">{{NHLE|num=1352955|desc=The Parish Church of St Leonard, Church Street, Seaford, Lewes, East Sussex|year=2007|access-date=16 February 2012}}</ref> St Luke's Church, opened in 1959 and built of flint and brick, serves the Chyngton and Sutton suburbs of the town. It has been attributed to architect [[John Leopold Denman]].<ref name="SPC-3634"/> The [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] [[Church of St Thomas More (Seaford)|Church of St Thomas More]] was built in 1935 to replace a chapel in the grounds of Bishop of Southwark [[Francis Bourne]]'s home nearby. James O'Hanlon Hughes and Geoffrey Welch designed the flint and [[Stucco|render]] building, which was extended in 1969 using [[artificial stone]].<ref name="EH-Seaford">{{cite web|url=http://www.dabnet.org/Resources/DABNet/English%20Heritage%20Reports%20Extracts/Seaford%20EH.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091222064435/http://www.dabnet.org/Resources/DABNet/English%20Heritage%20Reports%20Extracts/Seaford%20EH.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 December 2009 |title=English Heritage Review of Diocesan Churches 2005 (Extract): St Thomas More, Seaford |year=2005 |publisher=[[English Heritage]] |access-date=16 February 2012 }}</ref><ref name="PoW48">{{cite book|last=Elleray|first=D. Robert|title=Sussex Places of Worship|year=2004|publisher=Optimus Books|location=Worthing|isbn=0-9533132-7-1|page=48}}</ref> W.F. Poulton designed a Gothic Revival chapel for [[Congregational church#United Kingdom|Congregationalists]] in 1877. The flint building has a distinctive corner turret.<ref name=Nairn603/><ref name="PoW49">{{cite book|last=Elleray|first=D. Robert|title=Sussex Places of Worship|year=2004|publisher=Optimus Books|location=Worthing|isbn=0-9533132-7-1|page=49}}</ref> It is now a [[United Reformed Church|United Reformed]] church with the name ''Cross Way Clinton Centre'', and has links with the town's [[Methodism|Methodist]] church, now called ''Cross Way Church''. This was built in the Gothic Revival style of red brick in 1894.<ref name="PoW49"/> A town-centre [[Baptists|Baptist]] chapel was demolished in 1973 and replaced by a new brown-brick circular church on the road to [[East Blatchington]].<ref name="PoW48"/> Elsewhere in the town, there is a [[Jehovah's Witnesses]] [[Kingdom Hall]], a [[Spiritualism (movement)|Spiritualist]] church and an [[Evangelicalism|Evangelical]] church (the Seaford Community Church in Vale Road). There is a [[Quakers|Quaker]] meeting in the town every Sunday in The Little Theatre in Steyne Road and the Quakers maintain a Peace Garden nearby.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Seaford Quakers |url=https://seafordquakers.uk/ |access-date=2024-11-16 |website=Seaford Quakers |language=en}}</ref>
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