Ruins of A College of Benedictine Canons at Old Malling Farm, Lewes
RUINS OF A COLLEGE OF BENEDICTINE CANONS AT OLD MALLING FARM, LEWES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1273648
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Ruins of A College of Benedictine Canons at Old Malling Farm, Lewes
- Statutory Address:
- RUINS OF A COLLEGE OF BENEDICTINE CANONS AT OLD MALLING FARM, LEWES
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- Date:
- 2002-04-03
- Reference:
- IOE01/05740/06
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1273648
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Ruins of A College of Benedictine Canons at Old Malling Farm, Lewes
- Statutory Address 1:
- RUINS OF A COLLEGE OF BENEDICTINE CANONS AT OLD MALLING FARM, LEWES
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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:
- RUINS OF A COLLEGE OF BENEDICTINE CANONS AT OLD MALLING FARM, LEWES
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 40977 11368
Details
SOUTH MALLING WITHOUT 1. 5206 Ruins of a College of Benedictine Canons at Old Malling Farm, Lewes TQ 41 SW 10/556 20.8.65. II
2. Aldulf, Prince or Duke of the South Saxons, founded a College here about 765 which was refounded by Archbishop Theobald for Benedictine Canons in 1150. It was dedicated to St Michael. Later the College moved further south to the site of the present Malling Deanery. It was suppressed in 1547, and the Church had disappeared by 1628, when the present Parish Church of St Michael, South Malling, was built. All that remains of the College above ground at the original site is a piece of rubble wall in the garden of Old Malling Farm, which is a C19 house, with the remains of a pointed window hardly above ground level. Nothing is visible at the second site.
Listing NGR: TQ4097711368
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 417472
- 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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