HURST-PIERREPOINT, a parish in the hundred of BUTTINGHILL, rape of LEWES, county of SUSSEX, 11 miles (W.N.W.) from Lewes, containing 1321 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Lewes, and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at £ 15. 9. 4., and in the patronage of Sir E. Winnington, Bart. The church, erected in the reign of Edward III., and dedicated to St. Lawrence, comprises two. chancels, one being a continuation of the south aisle; and there is a very ancient font, besides several interesting monuments. Henry Campion, in 1750, bequeathed a rent-charge of £5, and William and Ann Lindfield, in 1806, left certain stock producing annually about £50, for which sums one hundred children are instructed at different schools in the parish. A fair formerly held in August was changed, about sixty years ago, to the 1st of May.