Church of St Anne
CHURCH OF ST ANNE, WESTERN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1043687
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Anne
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANNE, WESTERN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1043687
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Anne
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ANNE, WESTERN ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANNE, WESTERN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- East Sussex
- District:
- Lewes (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lewes
- National Park:
- South Downs
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 40935 10005
Details
TQ 4010 SE & TQ 4009 NE LEWES WESTERN ROAD 8/489 & 13/489 (south side)
25.2.52 Church of St Anne
GV I
Church. Early C12, late C12, C15, restored in 1889. Flint with stone quoins and dressings, some of the flint coursed. Horsham slab roofs with some replacement plain tiles. West tower, nave with south aisle and south chapel, chancel. West tower of three stages separated by string-courses. Short spire on pyramidal roof. Five-bay nave north wall with north porch, on which has been reset the former C12 doorway. Triple-ordered arch with pair of columns with cushion capitals and some chevron-moulding of arch. Simple staff-moulded lancets to north wall, all 1889, as throughout the church. Three-bay south wall, that to the east of the vestry. Cross-gabled chapel to the west with paired C15-type windows in square surround. Chancel of three windows to north and two to south. Separated triple lancet at east end. Interior: Two-bay aisle to south with vestry to west and chapel to east. Arcade of late C12 on drum piers with square abaci. Stiff-leaf capitals with stiff-leaf corbels at the corners. Pointed arches with chamfers except round-arched easternmost bay, showing existence of earlier C12 transetal chapel. Chapel with quadripartite rib-vault and boss of similar carving to capitals of south arcade and possibly of similar date. Nave roof of queen posts and curved queen struts, dated 1538. Font: C12, drum-shaped with basket-weave decoration, band of plait below and pellet above. Glass: south transept by Capronnier of Brussels, 1889. Pulpit: 1620, on angle columns with panels of lions' heads.
W.H. Godfrey, Lewes Guide, Lewes, 1933, (revised ed. 1977), 37-38. B.O.E., Sussex, Harmondsworth, 1965, 551-552.
Listing NGR: TQ4093710006
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 293480
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I, The Buildings of England: Sussex, (1965), 551-552
Godfrey, W H, The Official Guide to Lewes, (1933)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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