PARISH OF PRESTON ST SAVIOUR

The church was built on a site donated by Mr Vere Fane Bennett-Stanford of Preston Manor, to the designs of Edmund Scott and F T Cawthorn of 46a Regency Square, Brighton. A building committee raised £1,500 and constructed a crypt on the lower part of the site, where the first service was held on 17 July 1881. Further work was delayed but the foundation stone was laid on 19 August 1885, the nave and aisles were constructed in 1886 and the chancel in 1889. The church became part of the parish of Preston St Augustine, in January 1978; it was declared redundant in 1981 and demolished in 1983.

The earliest surviving service register, 1914-1920, was discovered in a street market in Upper Gardener Street, Brighton, around 1985 and was subsequently restored to the parish archive in June 2001 as PAR459/3/1/3.

Summary of contents:

INCUMBENT

PAR459/1/2 Baptism registers; 1882-1979

PAR459/1/3 Marriage registers; 1888-1980

PAR459/1/4 Banns registers; 1912-1979

PAR459/1/6 Confirmation records; 1961-1977

PAR459/2 Records relating to registers; 1914-1920

PAR459/3 Service registers; 1914-1980

PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL

PAR459/14 Minutes; 1924-1949

PAR459/15 Accounts; 1946-1956

PAR459/16 Other records; 1967-1968

<p>For plans and elevation of the crypt, 1880, see DB/D7/1887; for plans and elevation of the nave, aisles and chancel, 1885, see DB/D7/4556; for records relating to the church after it became a chapel of ease of Preston St Augustine, see PAR455; for a history of St Saviour&amp; apos;s, see PAR455/7/3/1; for transparencies of the stained glass windows, see PAR455/7/2/11</p>

Deposited by the incumbent and PCC of Preston St Augustine, 15 April 1982 (ACC 2818), 24 October 1986 (ACC 4736), via Brighton Reference Library, 26 July 1984 (ACC 4303), 27 June 2003 (ACC 8823) and given by Brian Cheeseman, 22 June 2001 (ACC 8375)