Westgate Chapel
WESTGATE CHAPEL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1043839
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Westgate Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- WESTGATE CHAPEL, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1043839
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Westgate Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- WESTGATE CHAPEL, HIGH STREET
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:
- WESTGATE CHAPEL, 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 41293 09954
Details
In the entry for
TQ 4109 NW LEWES HIGH STREET 14/182 (south side)
25.2.52 Westgate Chapel
"Wooden door to right is round headed stone arch surround" shall be added to the description, after the last sentence in the ninth row, before "Interior".
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TQ 4109 NW LEWES HIGH STREET 14/182 (south side)
25.2.52 Westgate Chapel
GV II*
Chapel. 1583, converted 1698, altered and restored in C19. Timber- framed. Knapped flint cladding on high plinth with chamfered stone plinth band. Tilehung above to righthand side of east end. Part tilehung and part plastered entrance front to north. North front: Doorway in red brick porch with paired half-glazed doors and flat hood on console brackets over. Plaque over porch recording origin of chapel. East front: Two 6-light chamfered transom and mullion windows on east end that to right surrounded by tilehanging and wood, that to left stone with three-light chamfered mullion window above. Plain tiled roofs. Interior: Main chapel: High dado panelling with four recessed arches on tall round (probably wooden) columns to north. That at right open below impost level, centre pair with tall three-light cavetto-mullioned diamond-lattice windows lighting room beyond. Tall six-light cavetto-mullioned diamond-latticed windows at east and west ends and two on south side. Late C19 organ in recess next to sanctuary. C19 carved panelled pulpit on right of sanctuary. Arched recess above dado panelling on south side wall, original position of pulpit prior to 1913. Moulded stone octagonal font on octagonal stem. Church hall: Dado panelling, C19. Two heavy beams on wooden brackets, supported at the south by the columns. The hall and vestibule were divided from the chapel in 1915. Small panelled and be-bookshelved minister's room adjoining on south side.
Listing NGR: TQ4128509955
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 293164
- 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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