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Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex lived in North Street, St Leonards-on-Sea. [citation needed] The 2018 PDC World Darts Championship Winner and 2019 PDC World Matchplay Champion Rob Cross hails from St Leonards-on-Sea. [citation needed] Baston Lodge, Upper Maze Hill, was the childhood home of Alan Turing.
After founding his new town of St Leonards-on-Sea, James Burton gained permission by an Act of Parliament of 1837 to build a turnpike road northwards from Maze Hill to avoid the congestion in Hastings. [5] However, when this was authorized, the Hastings Council also obtained the necessary Turnpike Act to build a new road towards London.
Notable among these is the town of St Leonards-on-Sea in East Sussex, England. Sussex is also home to St Leonard's Forest. This part of England has a significant number of dedications to St Leonard. Some of the best-known are the parish church of St Leonard in Hythe, Kent, with its famous ossuary and St. Leonard's, Shoreditch in London.
It is one of several listed churches in St Leonards-on-Sea: the Anglican churches of Christ Church, St Peter's and St John the Evangelist are classed at the higher Grade II*, while St Leonard's Anglican parish church, St Leonard's Baptist Church and the Greek Orthodox St Mary Magdalene's Church, along with the former St Leonards-on-Sea ...
Burton bought it on 27 February 1828, having already drawn up plans to found and construct a new, high-class town and resort to rival neighbouring Hastings. [5] The town was called St Leonards-on-Sea in reference to the ancient Hastings parish of St Leonard's, whose church of that dedication stood in the area covered by the new town from the ...
[20] [21] His early works included founding a daughter church in the newly developed Upper St Leonards in 1865—St John the Evangelist's Church [22] is still in use as a separate parish church—and opening church schools in 1873. [18] [23] In the same year, he founded a new, much larger church next to the original building.
Summerfields was a boys' preparatory school in the St Leonards-on-Sea area of Hastings, East SussexIt occupied the buildings previously known as Bohemia House. Bohemia House was built in 1818, by the architect John (Yorky) Smith, and occupied the site of the former demolished Bohemia Farm, [1] which has given its name to Bohemia Road, and the whole area known as Bohemia.
[1] [15] As a "large and imposing" building on a prominent, high corner site (a feature typical of the churches of St Leonards-on-Sea and Hastings), [17] it makes a "handsome composition" within the townscape. [1] [16] Another characteristic feature, similar to other local churches, is the extensive use of locally quarried stone. [17]