A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6 Part 1, Bramber Rape (Southern Part). Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1980.
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A P Baggs, C R J Currie, C R Elrington, S M Keeling, A M Rowland, 'Old and New Shoreham: Roman Catholicism', in A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6 Part 1, Bramber Rape (Southern Part), ed. T P Hudson( London, 1980), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol6/pt1/p171 [accessed 17 November 2024].
A P Baggs, C R J Currie, C R Elrington, S M Keeling, A M Rowland, 'Old and New Shoreham: Roman Catholicism', in A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6 Part 1, Bramber Rape (Southern Part). Edited by T P Hudson( London, 1980), British History Online, accessed November 17, 2024, https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol6/pt1/p171.
A P Baggs, C R J Currie, C R Elrington, S M Keeling, A M Rowland. "Old and New Shoreham: Roman Catholicism". A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6 Part 1, Bramber Rape (Southern Part). Ed. T P Hudson(London, 1980), , British History Online. Web. 17 November 2024. https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol6/pt1/p171.
ROMAN CATHOLICISM.
There was no papist in either Old or New Shoreham in 1676 (fn. 1) but four in the two parishes in 1767. (fn. 2) Before 1870 a priest from Worthing said mass at no. 2 Surry Street but in that year began to use a schoolroom formed out of a stable in John Street, apparently on the site backing on Ship Street given by William Wheeler, formerly vicar of Old and New Shoreham, for a permanent church. (fn. 3) The church of St. Peter in Ship Street, built of flint pebbles with stone dressings in a 14th-century style to a design by C. A. Buckler (fn. 4) and providing 200 sittings, was opened in 1875, having been paid for by Augusta, dowager duchess of Norfolk; a presbytery beside it was completed in 1877. (fn. 5)