Barbican to Lewes Castle and Walls to South
BARBICAN TO LEWES CASTLE AND WALLS TO SOUTH, CASTLE GATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1043895
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Barbican to Lewes Castle and Walls to South
- Statutory Address:
- BARBICAN TO LEWES CASTLE AND WALLS TO SOUTH, CASTLE GATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1043895
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Barbican to Lewes Castle and Walls to South
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARBICAN TO LEWES CASTLE AND WALLS TO SOUTH, CASTLE GATE
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:
- BARBICAN TO LEWES CASTLE AND WALLS TO SOUTH, CASTLE GATE
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 41402 10071
Details
In the entry for
TQ 4110 SW LEWES CASTLE GATE
9/23 Barbican to Lewes Castle and wall tn South
The previous listing date "25.2.52" shall be added.
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TQ 4110 SW LEWES CASTLE GATE
9/23 Barbican to Lewes Castle and walls to south
GV I
Barbican and walls. Early C14 for John de Warenne, 8th Earl of Surrey. Flint with stone dressings and quoins, with chequer stone and flint work in lower parts of turrets. Central arch with corner turrets corbelled out on moulded stone squinches roughly at impost level of the southern arch. The single turret to the east is mostly missing, the stonework jagged on this face. Embattled parapets with machicolations to the south on triple-stepped rounded corbels. Almost central window with cusped ogee- arched head and leaded glazing hard up under machicolations on south side. Various cross-loops in lowest parts of side-turrets and single cross-loops adjacent in main body of gate flanking the archway. Central pointed arched gateway with double-chamfered southern outer arch. Remains of an inner arch visible towards the north, with moulded C15 north outer arch. Interior: spiral stair in north-west tower. Two rooms inside Barbican, one above the other. Walls to south extending circa 10 yards along east side of Castle Gate and circa 35 yards along west side. Flint and stone walls with some brick patching, circa 10-15 feet high, up from former castle moat.
Listing NGR: TQ4140210071
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 292992
- 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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