Church of St Michael and Railings
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND RAILINGS, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1287005
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND RAILINGS, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1287005
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND RAILINGS, HIGH STREET
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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:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND RAILINGS, HIGH STREET
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 41322 10002
Details
TQ 4110 SW & TQ 4109 NW LEWES HIGH STREET 9/226 & 14/226 (north side)
25.2.52 Church of St Michael & railings
GV I
Parish church. C13, C14, 1748, restored and extended in 1885. Flint with stone dressings and plain tiled roofs, except pebbledashed tower with shingled spire. West tower, nave with north and south aisles, chancel. Round west tower with circular bell-opening to south. Tall octagonal spire. Main street front to south of flint with stone plinth, door and window dressings and moulded cornice-parapet with ball-finials at each end, essentially the front given by the remodelling of the south aisle wall in 1748, gothicised in 1885. 3 central pointed-arch windows with hood-moulds, enclosing two lancets and quatrefoil in arches, with pointed-arch entrances with panelled doors and hood- moulds in outer bays, topped by oculi now enclosing quatrefoil windows. Main entrance in west end of south aisle with segment-headed doorway topped by small round-arched window above and to left. All gables parapetted and coped. Interior: 5 bay C14 south arcade with double hollow-chamfered arches. Timber arcade of 1748 to north aisle, panelled arches to octagonal columns with quasi- Tuscan capitals. Chancel of 1885. Monuments: Tablet to Sir Nicholas Pelham, d. 1559. Columned with kneeling parents and children below. Between the church and the hall to the left are railings of cast-iron, neo-Gothic in style probably dating from the alterations of 1885. Central gates with pointed overthrow with Gothic-arched soffit; panelled openwork sides with cusped arches and colonnettes. Railings and gates matching with low dog-rails.
Listing NGR: TQ4132110001
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 293208
- 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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