Hurstmonceaux

Hurstmonceaux, a village of Sussex, 5 miles N. of Pevensey, with the extensive ivy-covered ruins of a fine castle, built of brick under Henry VI. by Sir Roger de Fienes, one of the heroes of Agincourt. It passed in 1727 into the hands of the Hares or Hare-Naylors. The then head of the house, Bishop Hare, took good care of the estate, but its resources were shamefully squandered by the two succeeding heirs, and about the close of the century the castle was unroofed and its valuable contents sold off at a six weeks' sale. A modern mansion was built near its ruins. The famous Broad Church leader, Archdeacon Hare (q.v.), was rector of the parish from 1832 till 1855, and lies buried in the churchyard. The church is Early English, with Perpendicular windows, and contains, among other ancient monuments, the fine canopied altar-tomb of the second Lord Dacre.