List of places of worship in Rother
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 96 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5131-3606-4
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The district of Rother, one of six local government districts in the English county of East Sussex, has more than 120 current and former places of worship. As of 2012, 87 active churches and chapels serve the mostly rural area, and a further 38 former places of worship still stand but are no longer in religious use. The district's main urban centres—the Victorian seaside resort of Bexhill-on-Sea and the ancient inland towns of Battle and Rye—have many churches, some of considerable age. Others serve villages and hamlets scattered across the Wealden hills and marshes of the district. Even small settlements have parish churches serving the Church of England, the country's state religion. Roman Catholicism is less well established than in neighbouring West Sussex, but Protestant Nonconformist denominations have been prominent for centuries. Methodism was especially popular in the area: many chapels were built in the 18th and 19th centuries,...