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Latitude: 50.8729 / 50°52'22"N
Longitude: 0.0083 / 0°0'29"E
OS Eastings: 541402
OS Northings: 110071
OS Grid: TQ414100
Mapcode National: GBR KQ2.8XJ
Mapcode Global: FRA B6XS.M2R
Plus Code: 9F22V2F5+48
Entry Name: Barbican to Lewes Castle and Walls to South
Listing Date: 25 February 1952
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1043895
English Heritage Legacy ID: 292992
ID on this website: 101043895
Location: Lewes, East Sussex, BN7
County: East Sussex
District: Lewes
Town: Lewes
Civil Parish: Lewes
Built-Up Area: Lewes
Traditional County: Sussex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): East Sussex
Church of England Parish: Lewes St Michael
Church of England Diocese: Chichester
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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
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