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St Michael’s Church, Lewes
156-158 High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 1XU

Grade I listed

List Entry Number: 1287005

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

historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1287005

Church House to the west was built in 1881 to serve for church functions and the Sunday School. It incorporates the Town Clock which overhangs the High Street.

The parish church of St Michael in Lewes is distinguished by its 13th century round tower and slender shingled spire. This is one of only three round towers in Sussex. Other parts of the church date from the 14th, 18th and 19th centuries. The south wall, along the High Street, is a fine example of knapped and squared flintwork. The 19th century stained glass is by Henry Holland. On the tower there is a figure of St. Michael by Harry Phillips (1976). The church interior has recently been redecorated with new lighting, and further work is planned.

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Taken on: September 9, 2014

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