This church is part of the Old Town Parish of Hastings and dates back to 1080 AD. It was damaged by the French in 1339 and 1377, and rebuilt in 1380. The church has a 15th century font and two chandeliers. Dante Gabriel Rossetti married Elizabeth Siddall in this church in 1860.
St Clement’s has two beautiful stained-glass windows at its east end. These are the work of Philip Cole and replaced the original windows destroyed by bomb blast in the Second World War when a German bomb demolished the nearby Old Swann Inn which dated back to 1309. (This incident is part inspiration for an episode of the television detective series Foyle’s War and the fictional Inspector Foyle’s house is in Croft Road at the West end of St.
The cache is magnetic and at hip height. Please be stealthy when finding this cache as there are lots of muggles that pass it.
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