Pelham

‘Visitors seem to have come [to Hastings] from about 1775 onwards, but architecturally the first event is PELHAM CRESCENT of 1824-8, by Joseph Kay, an enterprise of the first Earl of Chichester.  The crescent rises as it curves, and its apex and climax is St Mary.  A pity that houses of the crescent are not a storey lower.  As it is the church are not helped by the houses.’  Typical Pevsner, never satisfied.

Photo: Pelham Crescent, Hastings, February 2012

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