Talk:St Peter's Church, Preston Village

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A fact from St Peter's Church, Preston Village appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 April 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that in 1908, the newly built St John the Evangelist's Church (pictured) became the parish church of Preston Village in Brighton, England, after the 13th-century St Peter's Church was seriously damaged by fire?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/April.

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Current status/use

What is the church's current usage, if any? Can it be rented as a multifunction hall, or as a chapel? Is it a museum? Is it planned to be transformed in such a hall or museum? Circeus (talk) 22:31, 4 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It is opened to the public a few times a year; other than that it is just maintained by the Churches Conservation Trust. I haven't come across any plans to use it for anything else, either religious or secular, and as far as I can tell it can't be hired etc. It would be nice if some sort of permanent use could be made of it, as the structural integrity and fabric of the building appear to be sound. I've added a line in the History section. Hassocks5489 (tickets please!) 22:46, 4 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I was there today and there's a sign which says it is available for hire through the Churches Conservation Trust --Dairysound (talk) 15:37, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Bells

Assuming that this is one and the same as St Peter's, Preston Park, Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers says that all three bells are from 1906.http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/detail.php?searchString=brighton&Submit=++Go++&DoveID=BRIGHTONPK However, the Church of England's list of historically significant bells does list one for Preston St Peter cast c1440, so possibly this bell is now hung elsewhere in the church? (search page http://www.churchcare.co.uk/bells.php enter Preston St Peter in location to find the listing) looking at the dtabase further, bell number would be given as eg 1 of 3 if it were hung as part of a ring, but is listed as I/B for this bell (with no indicaiton I can find of what that means), which would tend to add weight to the idea it's separate from the ring of three David Underdown (talk) 09:54, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]