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The Parish of
St Nicolas & St Andrew
Portslade |
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St Andrew
Church Portslade History |
St Andrew Church 1864 |
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In the early 1860's there were many
houses in the southern part of Portslade, sometimes called Copperas Gap,
and that the people who lived there were some distance from their Parish
Church of St Nicolas. At the instigation of the Vicar of Portslade, the
Revd. F. G. Holbrooke, the Church of St Andrew was built in 1864. The new
church would serve the District of Copperas Gap in the Parish of
Portslade, the district included both South Portslade and Fishersgate.
One of the conditions for the funding of the new Church was that all
seats would be "free". Pew rents were still payable in many Churches in
the 1860's. At St. Nicolas Portslade where pew rents were in operation,
there are still some pews marked "free", dating from Victorian times. A
local Brighton architect Edmund Scott designed both St. Andrew's Church
and St Nicolas Church School in Locks Hill, Portslade. Scott went on to
design probably, the most impressive and nationally known church in
Brighton, St Bartholomew's in Ann Street.
St Andrew’s was Consecrated on the 18th October 1864, the Feast of St
Luke, by the Bishop of Chichester
The Surrey Standard reported on the 25th October 1864, " A church at
Copperas Gap, which has been recently erected to meet the spiritual
wants of almost 100 souls in that neighbourhood, was on Tuesday last
Consecrated by the Bishop of the Diocese. The situation of the new
church is just above the Britannia Steam Flour Mill, near the Railway.
The total cost of the undertaking is stated at £1,541, of which sum
about £350 remains to be provided. There is accommodation for about 350
persons: and the seats are all free and un-appropriated. The edifice is
of un-ambitious aspect, and in the Early English style. It will at least
be put to more practical purpose than its neighbour, Aldrington Church,
which is a ruin and a desolation, but nevertheless supplies a "living"
of about £400 a year to somebody."
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The stained glass windows on the south side of the Sanctuary's depict
William Morris's
St George and the Dragon , titled 'Valour' given in memory
of 2nd Lt. Ronald Christian Sundius Smith, who was killed in action at
Neuve Chapelle on 12th March 1915
and
E. Burne Jones', 'St Wilfrid' which was given in memory of the
Revd. C. A. Marona. Vicar of St Andrew's 1889-1903, Chaplin to the
Garrison at Newhaven, died 28th Feb 1915. |
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The Sanctuary's stained glass widows
depict, left-right:-
St John,
The Resurrection of Our Lord
and The Blessed Virgin Mary.
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In 1871 Revd Richard Enraght was
appointed Curate in
Charge of St Andrew Church.
He was heavily influenced by the Oxford Movement and is amongst the
number of priests commonly called “Second Generation” Anglo-Catholics.
Fr Enraght was very
active in his defence of Ritualism in published pamphlets and
letters to the Brighton Gazette where he promoted the Church of England's
Catholic Tradition. While living in Portslade, he published the booklets
nationally, “The
Real Presence and Holy Scripture” and “Catholic Worship”
In 1874 Fr Enraght left Portslade to become Vicar of Holy Trinity,
Birmingham, where he was imprisoned in 1880 under the Disraeli
Government's Public Worship Regulation Act, for his use of ritualism in worship. He become nationally and internationally known as a
"prisoner for conscience sake".
See the Fr Richard Enraght page to learn
more about his life, ministry and publications. |
Fr Enraght entering Warwick
Prison in 1880 |
In 1880, St Andrew Church School was built, the school closed in the
Second World War never to re-open.
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"The Baddeley Window"
The centrepiece window of the Sanctuary is the
“Baddeley window” depicting The Resurrection. The window was, sadly,
given in memory of Lt. Alfred Baddeley who served in the Royal Sussex
Regiment and was killed in action near the Somme three weeks before the
end of the 1st World War aged 19 years. The Commonwealth War Graves
Commission gives as his next of kin, his brother, Walter Baddeley, who
eventually became a Bishop in the Melanesian Islands. A Cross was
presented to him by Islanders, used to stand in front of the Baddeley
window on the north wall in the original layout of St Andrew Church. It
would seem highly probable that the theme of The Resurrection for the
window was the choice of the Walter Baddeley, as a memoriam to his
brother, Alfred. At the time of the windows installation in St Andrew’s,
Walter Baddeley would have been entering Theological College. |
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Right Revd W. H. Baddeley
DSO., MC., DD., MA.
(Photograph from the
Southern Cross Log,
by Harry V. C. Reynolds
London, March 1960.) |
Who was Walter Baddeley? Walter was born in North Street, Portslade in 1894 and
educated at Varndean School, Brighton, Keble College, Oxford and
Cuddesdon College. He enlisted in the army in 1914 and took part in some
of the fiercest engagements on the Western Front with the Royal Sussex
Regiment. He was awarded the DSO and the MC
and bar and was four times mentioned in dispatches. In 1921 he took Holy
Orders and served as a Curate and finally a Vicar in Yorkshire until
1932, when he was chosen to be a Bishop in Melanesia. On his arrival in
Melanesia, Bishop Baddeley found that the Anglican Melanesian Mission’s
medical work was given low priority. He immediately changed this
priority and promoted medical work as integral to the Mission’s work.
This was a consequence of his belief in ‘the redemption of the whole
man’. He had been a Bishop there for about seven years when the 1939-45
War broke out.
In the war years Dr Baddeley was never driven out of his diocese during
the time of the Japanese occupation. He hid in the jungle living off the
land, where he carried on his ministry, caring for the sick and wounded
Islanders who were fighting for the Allied cause. Bishop Baddeley was
awarded the United States Medal of Freedom with palm for his
services in aiding American Servicemen. In 1944 he visited
Australia to seek funds for the restoration of his mission
station, the school in Maravovo and
infant welfare centre in Siota, which were all destroyed in the War.
When Dr Baddeley left Melanesia to become the Suffragan Bishop of Whitby
in 1947, he had the satisfaction of seeing the work of his former
diocese re-established on firm foundations. In 1954 he was appointed
Bishop of Blackburn and served as a Member of the House of Lords. |
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The Right Revd. W. H. Baddeley, DSO., MC., DD., Std. Bishop of Blackburn
and
former parishioner and Sunday School Teacher of St Andrew’s, Portslade
died in 1960.
For more detailed information on
Bishop Baddeley's life and ministry:- Please visit the
Walter
Baddeley pages at the website of Project Canterbury
(the home on the internet to Anglican texts )
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Formerly sited in the original layout of St Andrew Church but
now in the section of the Church building that was converted
into a Community Centre for South Portslade, there is a
First World War Memorial
to commemorate
those from the
Parish of St Andrew’s Portslade and Fishersgate, who fell in the
Great War 1914-1918
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(All the listed names on this Memorial are also commemorated
on the Portslade War Memorial in Easthill Park, Portslade, )
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Erected by Parishioners and Friends to the Glory
of God
and in memory
of those who died for England, Home and Duty.
Remember before God these who fell in the
Great War 1914-1919 |
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The Sanctuary windows were given
in memory of
Lt. Alfred J. Baddeley
who died in action
near the Somme on the
23rd October 1918.
St John
The Resurrection of
Our Lord.
The Blessed Virgin Mary |
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In May 2003 a major internal
building programme was undertaken to convert a section of St Andrew
Church into a much needed
South Portslade Community Centre with an
integral smaller St Andrew Church in the east section of the original
church building.
For more information on the work of
the
South Portslade Community Centre
please visit their web site
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March 2003 |
May
2003 |
July 2004 |
The newly re-ordered St Andrew Church was
officially reopened by the Bishop of Chichester in July 2004.
See
the
Parish Diary for the times of weekday, and
Sunday Services at St Andrews.
St Andrews is located in
Church Road Portslade, directly south of the Southern Cross traffic lights.
For bus routes to
St Andrews, see the Brighton & Hove Bus Company's web site on the Parish’s
Links page. |
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Vicars of St Andrew Church, Portslade by Sea |
1864 St Andrew
Church is built under the direction of the Revd Holbrooke, Vicar of St
Nicolas Church, becomes Priest in
Charge of this District Church.
1866 J. Joseph, Curate of St Andrew with Hangleton
1867 J. J. Ellis, Curate of St Andrew with Hangleton
1869 O. Cookson, Curate of St Andrew with Hangleton
1871 Richard W. Enraght, Curate in
Charge of Portslade by Sea with Hangleton
1874 E. Winterbottom, Curate in Charge of Portslade by Sea
1876 The separate Parish of St Andrew Portslade by Sea is formed and no
longer united with St Nicolas Portslade.
1876 E. Winterbottom. appointed first Vicar of the new Parish of St
Andrew Portslade by Sea
1889 C.A. Marona.
1903 C. E. Cooper.
1911 R. M. Rosseter.
L. Norman Phillips, M. C., C de
G., Curate of St Andrew Church 1913-1914
1915 H. W. Leycester-Ward.
1929 A. J. Longhurst.
1931 Bransby A.H. Jones.
1935 F. Warren-Wilson.
1951 C. F. G. Chisholm.
1959 F. R. Long.
1967 T. L. G. Packer.
1976 R. L. Clarke. & Priest in Charge of St Peter & St Mary Fishersgate,
Southwick
1980 J. R. Lambeth. & Priest in Charge of St Peter & St Mary Fishersgate,
Southwick
1984 R. H. Rushforth. Priest in Charge of St Andrew & Vicar of St
Nicolas, Portslade
1987 St Andrew united with St Nicolas to form, The Parish of St Nicolas
& St Andrew, Portslade
1987 R. H. Rushforth. Vicar of St Nicolas & St Andrew Portslade |
St Andrew Church
Portslade by Sea
St Peter & St Mary
Fishersgate
St Nicolas Church
Portslade |
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Patron of St Andrew Church, Portslade by Sea |
| From 1876 to date the Patron is the Bishop of Chichester. |
The full text from the
The Brighton Herald
reporting the Consecrated of St Andrew
Church on the 18th October 1864,
the Feast of St Luke, by the Bishop of Chichester
"On Tuesday 18th October 1864 the Church was
consecrated. The Bishop was received at the door of the Church by the
Chancellor of the Diocese, the Registrar, and the Clergy. He at once
proceeded to the Communion table, on which the vessels for the Holy
Communion had been previously place.
The Bishop and Clergy, consisting, the Revd. Archdeacon Otter, the Rev.
W. Kelly of Hove, the Revd. Vicar of Portslade, the Revd. Mr Field of
Lancing College, &c., walked in procession down the Nave, and then
returned, repeating alternately the verses of the 24th Psalm,
“The Earth is the Lord’s, &c.,” The Bishop being seated at the Communion
table, the Chancellor presented the deed of conveyance of the site of
the new edifice, and His Lordship proceeded with the very beautiful
service by which the act of consecration is performed.
The usual Morning Service then commenced; the Vicar, who was assisted by
the Archdeacon and others, taking the lead. The Psalms, special for the
occasion, were the 84th, the 122nd, and the 132nd;
the lessons, also special, 1 Kings viii., 22-61, and Hebrews x., 19-25.;
the Epistle and Gospel, likewise special, 2 Cor. vi., 14-18, and John
ii., 13-17. The service was intoned; the Psalms chanted to Gregorian
music. A harmonium was used as an assistant; but it is hoped that the
instrument will be replaced ere long by an organ.
The Revd. Mr Field, of Lancing College, preached from Luke xix. 10: “The
Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost,” Having
described his original work of seeking and saving, the preacher stated
that the same work was still being carried on by the ministers of
Christ. “As My Father has sent Me, even so I send you.” “As the Father
hath sent the Son to have power on earth,” to forgive sin, “even so”
with a like object, with like powers, His ministers go forth, with their
message of peace and good will, with their commission to bind and loose,
to teach, to baptise. It was Christ Himself who worked in His ministers.
He was present among those who represented Him among men. Baptism, the
Holy Communion, Confession, Absolution, were only so many channels
through which it pleased Him to convey His grace to man, the outward and
visible signs of that grace which He alone invisibly bestows upon us.
Through His ministers, He is still seeking to save that which was lost.
A new church was one of the means He employs to that end, and especially
was this the case when the church was in a place containing the class to
which our Lord devoted His life, the poor of His flock. “To the poor the
Gospel was preached,” There was no doubt that this small church was
likely, at no distant time, to be the centre of an enlarged population.
The 1,100 inhabitants at present around it, and who might be expected to
avail themselves of its services had, for the most part, been gathered
together during the last five or six years. The population was most
rapidly increasing. Surely, then it was of great importance that the
Church should occupy such a field of labour. " |
 
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