Ore Place
Ore Place is located in East Sussex
Ore Place
Location of Ore Place in East Sussex
LocationHastings, East Sussex
Coordinates50°52′45″N 0°35′05″E / 50.879223°N 0.5847064°E / 50.879223; 0.5847064
Builtlate 16c/early 17c
Official nameManor house (remains of), Ore Place
Designated4 December 2014
Reference no.1002271

Ore Place are the ruins of a significant late medieval manor house in the northern outskirts of Hastings, East Sussex, England.[1] The remaining parts of the building consist of walls up to 3m high and 0.7m thick and below ground archaeological remains. It is a Scheduled monument.[2]

History

Historian Thomas Walker Horsfield claimed in his History of Sussex that Ore Place was built by John of Gaunt.[3][4] Based on a 1991 partial excavation, the building is thought to date from the late 16c or early 17c.[2]

Horsfield also states the building had been used as a religious home,[3][4] the home of Sir Richard Steele, and subsequently the residence of the Crispe family.[3]

The house was rebuilt in 1874[5] and became the home of the Dowager Lady Elphinstone.[3][4] Ore Place subsequently came under the ownership of the eccentric Farmer Atkinson who allowed it to fall into disrepair.[6]

French Jesuits extended and converted the building to become a theologate, which opened in 1906. Amongst the students there was Pierre Teilhard de Chardin from 1908-1912. The learning centre had 20,000 books and could accommodate 100 students[6][7] and continued to be used until 1926.[6]

During World War II the building was requisitioned for the Royal Army Service Corps for use as a records office.[8] Military use continued after the war, with the Army Catering Corps records department joining the RASC in April 1947.[9]

The Victorian house was demolished in 1987.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Remains of Manor House, Ore Place, Ore - Hastings". historicengland.org.uk. Historic England. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Manor house (remains of), Ore Place, Non Civil Parish - 1002271". historicengland.org.uk. Historic England. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Osborne, Mrs Charlotte (1864). Osborne's Stranger's Guide to Hastings and St. Leonards. With map. C. Osborne. pp. 75–76.
  4. 1 2 3 Ross, Thomas (1845). Ross's Hastings and St. Leonards guide. pp. 51–52.
  5. 1 2 3 Hastings & St. Leonards Observer 24 July 1926 p.9 via British Newspaper Archive
  6. ↑ Grumett, David (2009). "Teilhard at Ore Place, Hastings, 1908-1912". New Blackfriars. 90 (1030): 687–700. doi:10.1111/j.1741-2005.2009.01296.x. hdl:20.500.11820/e152127f-ad5f-4c75-b682-bd2ec290904b. ISSN 0028-4289. JSTOR 43251348. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  7. ↑ "BBC - WW2 People's War - Jean Haslam 1940". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  8. ↑ Hastings and St Leonards Observer - Saturday 26 April 1947
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