PRESTON, a parish in the hundred of PRESTON,
rape of LEWES, county of SUSSEX, 1 mile (N. N. W.)
from Brighton, containing 319 inhabitants. The living
is a discharged vicarage, with that of Hove, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of Chichester, rated in the
king's books at £20. 2.11., and in the patronage of
the Prebendary of Hova Villa in the Cathedral Church
of Chichester. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is
in the early style of English architecture. Anne of
Cleves, the divorced queen of Henry VIII., resided at
Preston House, which contains her portrait, a good
original painting; from this place she retired to a convent
at Falmer, about three miles distant, where she
died and was buried.