PARISH OF ORE

Summary of contents:

INCUMBENT

PAR435/1/1 Early registers; 1558-1812

PAR435/1/2 Baptism registers; 1813-1879

PAR435/1/3 Marriage registers; 1813-2000

PAR435/1/4 Banns registers; 1826-1994

PAR435/1/5 Burial registers; 1813-1930

PAR435/1/6 Confirmation registers; 1930-1992

PAR435/2 Papers relating to registers; 1755-1965

PAR435/3 Service registers; 1953-1995

PAR435/4 Buildings and property; 1951

PAR435/5 Licences; 1869

PAR435/6 Income of the benefice; 1885-1957

PAR435/7 Other records; [1870] - 2005

CHURCHWARDENS

PAR435/10 Property records; 1934-1958

PAR435/11 Other records; 1960-1961

VESTRY

PAR435/12 Minutes; 1824-1908

PAR435/13 Other records; 1857-1907

PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL

PAR435/14 Minutes; 1925-1974

PAR435/15 Accounts; 1948-1979

PAR435/16 Other records; 1896-1987

STATUTORY DEPOSITS

PAR435/21 Tithe records; 1840-1936

CHARITIES

PAR435/24/1 Ore Village School Foundation; 1903-1998

PAR435/24/2 William Twiss Turner's School Foundation; 1880-1907

OVERSEERS OF THE POOR

PAR435/32/1 Settlement certificates; 1722-1779

PAR435/32/4 Settlement examinations; 1834

SURVEYORS OF THE HIGHWAY

PAR435/41 Other records; 1857

RECORDS OF OTHER CHURCH ORGANISATIONS

PAR435/43/1 The Mothers' Union; 1947-1960

Deposited by the incumbent and PCC, 17 November 1958 (ACC 287), 23 September 1959 (ACC 344), 14 October 1959 (ACC 348), 29 October 1973 (ACC 1638), 29 July 1987 (ACC 4886), 6 September 1994 (ACC 6450), 13 May 1998 (ACC 7686), 19 October 2000 (ACC 8229), 25 July 2000 (ACC 8182), 19 October 2000 (ACC 8229), 24 November 2000 (ACC 8246), and 4 February 2005 (ACC 9143)

From before 1967 to 1973 the parish records of Hastings All Saints, Hastings St Clements, Hastings St Mary in the Castle, St Leonards and Westham were held at Hastings Museum, which was not a Diocesan Record Office. While at the museum these records were augmented, under the same references, from other sources, chiefly the administrative records of Hastings Borough Council and of firms of solicitors who acted as vestry clerks, but also documents recovered by the museum from wartime salvage and acquired by purchase. These composite records were transferred to ESRO in 1973 and listed in PAR classes without attention being drawn to their mixed provenance.Former parish records of other parishes in greater Hastings which had passed, with the administrative functions to which they relate, to Hastings Corporation, were also transferred to ESRO in 1973 and included in the lists of the records of those parishes, including Ore.The close involvement of the Corporation and its Town Clerk in the administration of the poor law, partly caused by the survival of the ancient parishes of St Andrew and St Mary in the Castle as administrative units but without parish officers, also resulted in many settlement certificates and removal orders being addressed to or issued by the Town of Hastings rather than by individual parishes. Where that is the case, on transfer to ESRO the documents were allotted to the parish of Hastings All Saints.Since evidence for what was done and for the sources of the additional material is almost entirely lacking, no documents have been removed from these fonds. But it must be remembered that they are in part artificial creations rather than the organic archives of the parishes concerned.

The church is dedicated to St Helen. The former church building was demolished in 1869, apart from the tower and parts of the walls. The new church was built on a different site. It was designed by Edgar P Loftus Brock, and the builder was H Hughes of St Leonards-on-Sea; the consecration took place on 2 September 1870.