It's sandstone all right. The biggest sandstone cliff in the South at Hastings.
I found out about it too late to get down to see it but from the film it looks like a very large section has gone which may include some of the climbs in Southern Sandstone sea cliffs (p344 to 347).
I will try and get down there tomorrow or Monday. Major storm going on here right now and high tide soon, which may breach the A259 on the sea front.
It looks nice in these pictures, and they are good lines, but seriously it's more than just sand than sandstone. Unbelievably soft rock, it's a wonder it ever stayed up in the first place.
I went down to look at it today. A very large section of the cliff face about 100m wide has toppled leaving an almost smooth pristine new face with a most unstable top. The slope under the base is heavily gouged and covered by fresh debris and sand running down into the sea. The section that fell has shattered into small boulders and rocks with a lot of loose sand. It was half tide when I went so I'm not certain if it's still possible to traverse along the base at low tide, but this is likely to be quite risky until things have settled down a bit due to the unstable nature of the top and large cracks into the adjoining faces which might also collapse at any time.
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