As its popular name implies, the church was built to evangelise the fisherfolk who were based on the eastern shore.  As such, it may be compared with A D Wagner's similar efforts in Brighton, though the building is architecturally less ambitious than most of Wagner's.  It was closed in 1939 and re-opened as a museum in 1956, it is a good example of the modest mission church of a type few of which survive in Sussex.  Opened in 1854, its simple rectangular plan with big lancets would by then have seemed old-fashioned.  There was no chancel and the material is stone; one sign of the 1850s is the open and unplastered roof.  The surveyor (architect is too pretentious) was W J Gant and the cost was £529 (B 11 p560).

Fittings

Font: The simple font, dating probably 1854, remains in the museum shop.
Glass: Glass panel commemorating the Millenium, 2000, by A Wright (Artist's website).

My thanks to Nick Wiseman for the photographs