CHURCH OF ST JOHN SUB CASTRO

CHURCH OF ST JOHN SUB CASTRO, ABINGER PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1043886
Date first listed:: 16-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN SUB CASTRO
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN SUB CASTRO, ABINGER PLACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1043886
Date first listed:: 16-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN SUB CASTRO
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN SUB CASTRO, ABINGER PLACE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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Legacy System number:: 292973
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Godfrey, W H , The Official Guide to Lewes, (1933), 39-40
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I, The Buildings of England: Sussex, (1965), 552

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.