Gateway and Walls to Priory of St Pancras
GATEWAY AND WALLS TO PRIORY OF ST PANCRAS, PRIORY CRESCENT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1043745
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Gateway and Walls to Priory of St Pancras
- Statutory Address:
- GATEWAY AND WALLS TO PRIORY OF ST PANCRAS, PRIORY CRESCENT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1043745
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Gateway and Walls to Priory of St Pancras
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEWAY AND WALLS TO PRIORY OF ST PANCRAS, PRIORY CRESCENT
- Statutory Address 2:
- GATEWAY AND WALLS TO PRIORY OF ST PANCRAS, SOUTHOVER HIGH STREET
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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:
- GATEWAY AND WALLS TO PRIORY OF ST PANCRAS, PRIORY CRESCENT
- Statutory Address:
- GATEWAY AND WALLS TO PRIORY OF ST PANCRAS, SOUTHOVER HIGH STREET
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 41288 09663
Details
TQ 4109 NW LEWES PRIORY CRESCENT 14/352 (south side)
25-2-52 Gateway and walls to Priory of St Pancras (formerly listed as Archway adjoining No 12)
GV II
Gateway and walls. C13, now built into wall. Stone with flint and stone walling and some red brick repairs. Z-plan piece of walling, extending from point adjacent to north-east of Church of St. John Southover in three stretches to the north-west corner of Priory Crescent. North-west stretch: circa 10 feet high and 7 yards long with the remains of a dressed stone arch on the north side at the eastern and western ends. A mask of grotesque character has been inserted in the wall to the right fo the remains of the arch. Central stretch: 5 yards long with buttressing wall to east. Main gate: formerly the pedestrian entrance to the Priory. Pointed arched gateway in short stretch of dressed stone wall to south-east. Double-chamfered arch on double-ordered piers. Much eroded at time of resurvey. Later C20 gateway of wrought-iron with dograils and decorative cross-pieces. The gateway was moved and re-erected from its original place to the west of the Church.
Listing NGR: TQ4128809663
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 293337
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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