The above entry is a facsimile of the opening page of the Parish Registers of St Nicolas Church Portslade, now held in the East Sussex Record Office, which states that the pre 1666 Portslade Parish Registers were destroyed in a fire. The Vicars of Portslade also served as Rectors of the neighbouring village church of St Helen's Hangleton (Hove) from 1523-1955.
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Please Note:- The East Sussex Record Office is responsible for the preservation and storage of all old Church Registers at St Nicolas (circa 1140), St Andrews (1864) and The Good Shepherd Mile Oak (1936).
The East Sussex Record Office also holds old School Log Books, Street Directories and many personal historical documents relating to Portslade. For details of viewing these records, make all enquiries to ;
The Keep
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Brighton
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Telephone: (01273) 482349
For information of Churchyard burials at St Nicolas Church, South Street, Portslade contact:- The East Sussex Record Office who now hold all burial records for this churchyard. St Nicolas Church Portslade is the only Church in Portslade with a churchyard for burials, which was closed in 1872.
For information of burials after 1872 in Portslade Cemetery, which is located off Victoria Road, contact the:- Brighton & Hove City Council.
All
inscriptions of grave stones and monuments that are still visible in St Nicolas Portslade's Churchyard and within the Church can be found on two pages of this "Portslade in the Past" website.