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From Historical Hastings
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Font, although a curious piece of antiquity, has been so much disfigured by imprudent repairs and whitewash , that it is scarcely possible to trace the workmanship on it: it is said to bear representations of our Saviour's passion .

ALL SAINTS,

( Ususally styled the Upper Church ,) stands near the entrance of the town, and is supposed to be about 700 years old . It contains not any sepulcharal memorials deserving of particular notice ; the pulpit cloth was part of the canopy held over Queen Anne at her coronation, and on the roof of the belfrey are still the twelve signs of the zodiac, in tolerable preservation .

ST . MARY'S.

The parish of Saint Mary's, which contains the principal houses for the accommodation of visitors, and a population of 1900 persons, was without any place of public worship, until the late Rt. Hon . the Earl of Chichester procured an Act of Parliament, and by his munificence, erected at his sole cost, an elegant edifice called -