WALLS ENCLOSING THE CHURCHYARD, CHURCH OF ST LEONARD

WALLS ENCLOSING THE CHURCHYARD, CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, HEIGHTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1280265
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1993
List Entry Name:: WALLS ENCLOSING THE CHURCHYARD, CHURCH OF ST LEONARD
Statutory Address:: WALLS ENCLOSING THE CHURCHYARD, CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, HEIGHTON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1280265
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1993
List Entry Name:: WALLS ENCLOSING THE CHURCHYARD, CHURCH OF ST LEONARD
Statutory Address 1:: WALLS ENCLOSING THE CHURCHYARD, CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, HEIGHTON ROAD

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:: WALLS ENCLOSING THE CHURCHYARD, CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, HEIGHTON ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: East Sussex
District:: Lewes (District Authority)
Parish:: Newhaven
National Grid Reference:: TQ 45454 02570

Details

NEWHAVEN

TQ4502 HEIGHTON ROAD, Denton 769-1/5/21 (West side) Walls enclosing the churchyard, Church of St Leonard

GV II

Walls, including the wall of former dwelling. Late medieval and C18-C19, repaired C20. Unknapped flint wall with cement coping. Plan: boundary wall of churchyard with Heighton Road, returned along S side of churchyard as embankment wall forming the boundary with the Manor House (qv), surmounted in part by a standing section of wall from an unidentified medieval structure. The latter, about 5m long and 2m high, contains a piece of dressed stone, possibly reset and part of an early C16 window opening. A number of medieval buildings stood in the vicinity of the churchyard and were swept away during the C18. (Horsfield T W: A History of Sussex: 1827-).

Listing NGR: TQ4545402570

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Legacy System number:: 374205
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Sources

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Horsfield, TW , A History of Sussex, (1827)

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