page_title: Ditchling
section_title: Religious buildings
hierarchical_section_title: Ditchling / Religious buildings
caption_attribution_description: The Old Meeting House, The Twitten, Ditchling, District of Lewes, East Sussex. Built in the 1730s as an extension to an adjacent house of 1672. They have been listed as a group at Grade II by English Heritage (IoE Code 292815)
context_page_description: Ditchling is a village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England. The village is contained within the boundaries of the South Downs National Park; the order confirming the establishment of the park was signed in Ditchling.
  An artistic community founded by the artist Eric Gill during the early 20th century, and known as The Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic survived until 1989.
context_section_description: Ditchling has a long history of Protestant Nonconformism. The village has four extant places of Christian worship and one former chapel.
  St Margaret's Church, founded in the 11th century, is the village's Anglican church.  The fabric of the flint and sandstone building is mostly 13th-century, although the nave is original. In 1740, a chapel (now called The Old Meeting House) was built on the side of a late 17th-century house off East End Lane.  It is now used by the Unitarian community. Emmanuel Chapel, used by an Evangelical congregation, was built in the early 20th century but may have had a predecessor elsewhere in the village. The Quaker community have a modern meeting house near the centre of the village. The Beulah Strict Baptist Chapel (now a house) on East End Lane was in religious use between 1867 and the 1930s.
caption: The Old Meeting House of 1740 is used by Unitarians.
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