As well as the medieval parish church of St
Mary in Old Town, another remarkable church building in Eastbourne is the
redbrick St Saviour's and St Peter's. Originally consecrated under the former
name in 1872, it was designed by George Edmund Street but merged with St
Peter’s in 1971 when the latter was made redundant and demolished. The Catholic
Church of Our Lady of Ransom is a generously proportioned building with a tall
Gothic interior. One of the windows commemorates the exiled Polish-Lithuanian
nobleman, Prince Lev Sapieha, who lived in the town, and there is much other
artwork in the
