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Latitude: 50.876 / 50°52'33"N
Longitude: 0.0094 / 0°0'33"E
OS Eastings: 541468
OS Northings: 110426
OS Grid: TQ414104
Mapcode National: GBR KPW.WR6
Mapcode Global: FRA B6XS.FHM
Plus Code: 9F22V2G5+CQ
Entry Name: Church of St John Sub Castro
Listing Date: 16 March 1970
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1043886
English Heritage Legacy ID: 292973
ID on this website: 101043886
Location: St John's Church, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7
County: East Sussex
District: Lewes
Civil Parish: Lewes
Built-Up Area: Lewes
Traditional County: Sussex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): East Sussex
Church of England Parish: St John sub-Castro, Lewes
Church of England Diocese: Chichester
Tagged with: Church building Gothic Revival
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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