Church of St John Sub Castro
CHURCH OF ST JOHN SUB CASTRO, ABINGER PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1043886
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1970
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN SUB CASTRO, ABINGER PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1043886
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1970
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN SUB CASTRO, ABINGER PLACE
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN SUB CASTRO, ABINGER PLACE
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 41468 10426
Details
TQ 4110 SW LEWES ABINGER PLACE
9/2 (north side)
16.3.70 Church of St John sub Castro
GV II
Parish church. 1839 by George Cheeseman. Flint with red brick dressings.
Plain tiled roofs. West tower, nave with short chancel. Short tower with
castellated turrets. Very large lancet side-windows with unarchaeological
tracery divided by thin buttresses. West front with central tower projecting
slightly with clasping buttresses and recessed sides, the roof hidden by sloping
parapets. Central window with two lights, panelled below with rose above and
hoodmould, above pointed arched doorway with doubled boarded doors, overlight and
hoodmould. Side windows with two lights, over boarded doors. Doorway from
original church, probably C10, attached in wall to east. Unmoulded arch flanked
by three demishafts and demirolls. Slab capitals. Remains of chancel arch
also, on south side of building with restored inscription which commemorates a
certain Magnus of Danish royal stock who chose to become an Anchorite at this
place. Interior: Galleries on simple columns on three sides and short apsed
chancel. Tie-beam wagon roof. Painting: Christ and the Children, Venetian,
circa 1600.
W.H. Godfrey, The Official Guide to Lewes, 1933, revised 1977, 39-40.
B.O.E., Sussex, 1965, 552.
Listing NGR: TQ4146810426
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 292973
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I, The Buildings of England: Sussex, (1965), 552
Godfrey, W H, The Official Guide to Lewes, (1933), 39-40
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