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LEWES-HISTORIC COUNTY TOWN P P P P P P P P P P P P X B R PH PH PH PH PH PH PH H H H H PH PH PH PH WC WCD LTC LTC WCD WCD i Pol H Sw Sw M M ESCC ESCC 17 martyrs burnt in 1557 PRIOR NELOND L H G F E D C B A E G F H D C B A 1 8 7 6 5 4 3 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 2 PS PS Play Play Play Play Play Play Play H H H H H H 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ROYAL MAIL DELIVERY SERVICE Grid reference in text Information Centre (E5) Taxi rank Parking Rail (F6) and Bus Sta. (D6) Public House / Hotel Lewes Town Council Lewes District Council East Sussex County Council Police Station (D6) Hospital (C1) Post Office (D7) Toilet Toilet-disabled (radar key) Library (E7) Museum Children’s playground Mathematical tiles Swimming (C5 + G7) Footpath Petrol Station Charging point Supermarket HISTORIC LEWES Twittens. (1-11) These parallel lanes and pedestrian alleys, dropping steeply from the High Street to the town’s southern defences, probably date from the planning of Lewes as a Saxon stronghold by King Alfred the Great in c879. Some have now been widened into roads, but originally would have looked much as Walwers Lane and Church Twitten (E6) do today. The Castle (D3) Laid out by William de Warenne after the battle of Hastings to reinforce his control of Lewes Rape. Early Norman shell keep with 13thC turrets and early 14thC barbican (outer gateway) with arrow loops and portcullis grooves. From the keep there are splen- did views of the South Downs, the Ouse estuary and the wooded Weald. The Tilting-ground (castle bailey) (D4) became a bowling green by 1639 and bowls are still played here with uniquely shaped 200-year-old woods. Brack Mount (D5) Perhaps pre-Norman in date? No other Norman castle except Lincoln has a second motte like this. Barbican House Museum (E4) This fine house near the castle entrance has a mid- 18thC facade, 16thC and late 17thC interior and houses prehistoric, Roman and medieval artefacts. See also the Lewes Town Model, a scale model with audio-visual show tracing the town’s his- tory. Lewes Priory Parks (G4+5) A Cluniac house founded in c1077 by William and Gundrada de Warenne, dedicated to St Pancras, and largely destroyed by Thomas Cromwell in 1538. Fragments of the great gatehouse and domestic build- ings remain. Anne of Cleves House and Museum (F2) Early 16thC timber-framed Wealden hall- house, once owned by Anne of Cleves. Porch dated 1599. Tudor-style garden and X X P PO i Pol LDC M Play PS L H Sw B R WC WCD PH H YOU ARE HERE KEY Lewes Town Council (C7) PH PO P PH PH PH Design and artwork: Andy Gammon Lewes © 1998, revised 2018 P LDC 2 H PH P Play PH H VISIT THE TOURIST INFORMATION CENTRE for information on accommodation, attractions, places to eat and places to see in Lewes and the surrounding area. The office also stocks a wide range of literature including the illustrated Town Guide, the official Town Guidebook. Radar keys for the disabled toilets are available here. ENJOY YOUR VISIT This map has been provided by the Friends of Lewes in conjunction with Lewes District Council and Lewes Town Council. Pelham House (E5) Just off the High Street with fine Renaissance panelling and elegant Georgian staircase, was built for an Elizabethan courtier in 1579. Lewes Crown Court (E5) (once the County Hall) The Town Hall (E5) was called the Star Inn until 1893. Its medieval cellar, splen- did Renaissance staircase and Georgian assembly-room remain behind the gauged brickwork of the Victorian facade. Market Tower (D6) was once the main entrance to the provision market, now holds a painting of Tom Paine by Julian Bell. Above the arch are the Borough Arms, and the town bell, ‘Gabriel’, is aloft. Lewes House (D7) is owned by Lewes District Council, with austere late Georgian grey brick at the front, charm- ing early Georgian red brick at the back. Wealthy aesthete and collector Edward Warren lived here and commissioned Rodin’s The Kiss in 1900. The statue left Lewes for the Tate Gallery in 1933. Fitzroy House (D6) at the bottom of the hill, was built in 1862 on the site of the Franciscan Friary by the architect Sir George Gilbert Scott in Venetian Gothic style as a library and memorial to Lewes MP, Henry Fitzroy. The other former Lewes library in Albion Street (D6), now an architects’ office, was designed as a School of Art. The lamps date from the Diamond Jubilee in 1897. Eastgate House (D6) built in 1823, has a Georgian facade with an Art Nouveau extension. It was formerly a stonema- son’s office and yard. All Saints Arts Centre (E6) Now a thriving centre for theatre, cinema, music and art. The former church has a 16thC tower and galleried Georgian nave. Fine restored Georgian box tombs in the churchyard. Cliffe Bridge (D7) over the Ouse. Its wooden arch was replaced by stone in 1727. Railway Lane (D7) On the west bank of the Ouse is a collection of river- side buildings once included A the Town Wharf, B the former Tabernacle Sunday School, C the Viper Store with its winged serpent, and D Stricklands granary (c1850). Now converted into riverside appartments. Harvey’s Brewery (D7) established in 1790, is now the only survivor of seven Victorian breweries in the town. Cliffe High Street (D7) leads to Cliffe Square, sometimes known as Lambert Corner (D8) after the painter J. Lambert. Mathematical Tiles, which are a feature on many houses in Lewes. Red and black mathematical tiles came into fashion locally in the 1780s. Usually hung on timber frames, they saved frontage space and imitated brick. A H on the map denotes especially distinctive mathe- matical tiled buildings. ELSEWHERE IN LEWES Martyrs’ Memorial (B8) Raised ‘in loving memory’ of the 17 Protestant martyrs burned in Lewes High Street during the reign of Queen Mary. Still a focus for ‘Bonfire’ observance. The Russian Memorial (C5) An obelisk (1877) raised by Czar Alexander II as Grand Duke of Finland. It honours 28 Finnish soldiers captured in the Baltic during the Crimean War, who died of disease at the old (now demolished) Lewes Naval Prison. Battle of Lewes Memorial 1964 (G6) Given by Lord Chelwood and designed by Enzo Piazzotta. The site of the battle, fought in 1264 between Henry III and Simon de Montfort, can best be seen from a lectern view-point in the Castle Precincts. The Ammonite sculpture (C7) at the entrance to the Cuilfail road tunnel, opened in 1981, celebrates the fossil rich chalkland of the Downs. Lewes H. M. Prison (D1) (1853) Built by D.R.Hill with ‘frowning’ towers and cramped windows. Old Race Course (A1) Scene of an annual King’s Plate by 1718 and later patronised by the George IV when Prince Regent, and Edward Vll. The gallops are still used for training racehorses. Malling Deanery (B5) A fine classical composition in Wealden brick, built about 1700, within the precinct of the medieval Deanery. Now private appartments. Malling House (A5) owned by the Archbishop of Canterbury until the Reformation. The mansion was rebuilt by John Spence in 1710. Now the Sussex Police Headquarters. The Greenwich Meridian (D1) 0° longi- tude is marked by a plaque in the pavement in Western Road, and by a monument in Meridian Road (B2). The Railway Station (F6) Serving London, Brighton, Newhaven, Seaford, Eastbourne and Hastings. The Bus Station (D6) Services leave from this area to Brighton, Uckfield, Tunbridge Wells, Ringmer and the surrounding dis- trict. LEISURE/NATURE/SPORTS Lewes is surrounded by wonderful coun- tryside, and a network of footpaths (see map) which lead on to the Downs, Ouse Valley and the Weald. There are several nature reserves within the town where you can observe a variety of wildlife. Sports enthusiasts are also well catered for. The Railway Land local Nature Reserve (F7) borders the River Ouse. Part of the reserve was originally railway sidings. The habitat now includes woodland watermeadows, ponds, and the environ- mental sculpture ‘Heart of Reeds’. Good for bird watching. Malling Down Nature Reserve (A8) This is a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest. Downland flora, and the very rare Adonis Blue butterfly can be seen here. Landport Bottom (A1) a dry valley, once believed to be the site of the Battle of Lewes, now managed to restore its downland turf for public access. Juggs Road (H1) Ancient lane leading to Brighton via Newmarket Hill. Once used by fishwives to reach Lewes market. The Pells Area (C4) The Prior of Lewes kept a swannery here. From 1802 the ‘L’ shaped duckponds powered a papermill. The adjoining open air swimming pool (1860) is the oldest in England. Children’s play area nearby. Lewes Leisure Centre (G7) Large indoor pool and flume, fitness room, steam room and sauna. The Mount, Dripping Pan and Convent Field (G6) Adjoining the Priory Park are possibly the remains of an Elizabethan prospect mound and a bowling green. The Dripping Pan is now home ground to Lewes Football Club ‘The Rooks’, with the new £G pitch, whilst the Convent Field and surrounding area provides facilities for other sports as well as a playground for small children. Stanley Turner Ground (H1) Home of Lewes Rugby Club, also cricket, hockey. Southdown Club (H4) All weather tennis, squash and hockey club. Hangman’s Acre (D3) and Gallows Bank (D4) Macabre history but Hangman’s Acre is now allotment gardens and recreation ground called the Paddock with children’s play area. Nearby the place of execution may have been the site of the present Elephant and Castle public house (D4). PLACES OF WORSHIP THREE TRINITY CHURCHES 1. St Michael’s, South Malling (B4) The church of the medieval foundation was demolished in the year 1550. John Evelyn’s grandfather built the present church in 1626. John Harvard, founder of Harvard University was married here. 2. St John the Baptist, Southover (G3) Originally a hospitium (guest house) by the Priory gate. The Norman nave arcade divided the wards. The South Chapel contains the superbly carved black Tournai marble tomb slab of Gundrada, which once covered her grave in the Priory Chapter House. Fine Georgian brick tower with copper weather vane in the form of a basking shark. 3. St John sub-castro (under the castle) (D5) A doorway, and a memorial to Magnus, a medieval anchorite, survive from a Saxon Church, built in an entrenched enclosure within the N.W. corner of the town walls. The present church (1839) has fine Victorian glass. St Anne’s (E2) Norman tower, south door- way, font and nave arcade; 13thC chan- cel; remains of anchoress’s cell; nave roof c1538; Jacobean pulpit; gallery with arms of George IV. St Michael’s (E3) 12thC(?) round flint tower, 14thC arcade, Georgian facade of knapped flint with excellent Victorian stained glass windows by Henry Holland. Also a picturesque shaded churchyard. St Thomas á Becket, Cliffe (D8) The parish church of Cliffe. Thomas á Becket, the martyred Archbishop of Canterbury had a palace nearby at South Malling. It has a 14thC nave, 15thC tower and Gothic porch. Jireh Chapel (1805) (C7) A stronghold of Calvinistic Independents. Red mathemat- ical tiles, chequered brickwork and hung slates. The famous evangelist and coal heaver, William Huntington S.S. (SINNER SAVED) is buried in the yard. Friends Meeting House (1784) (E7) Neatly built with red and black mathematical tiles. Next-door is a Perpendicular arch- way, perhaps from the Greyfriars. Westgate Unitarian Chapel (1700) (E3) Eastgate Baptist Church (1843) (D6) St Pancras Roman Catholic Church (1870) (E2) Christ Church United Reform/Methodist (1954) (C2) Kings Church (modern) (C6) SHOPPING AND EATING Lewes holds a variety of traditional and specialist shops and is an international centre for antiques and antiquarian books, boasting major auction houses. Shops are concentrated in the High Street from Westgate to Eastgate, in the Pedestrian Precinct, which includes the Riverside complex, and in Cliffe High Street where there is general shopping and several antique markets. Shopping is also to be found in many side streets. Needlemakers and Candle Factory (D6) A Victorian industrial building now converted to shops, offices and café, The Star Brewery workshops (D5) now house arts and crafts activities and an exhibition gallery. The town has many pubs (see key), some of which sell Harveys, the locally brewed ale. It also has several hotels with a variety of cafés, restaurants, sandwich bars and take-aways in the town centre. Lewes lies within the South Downs National Park - the largest town so to do. café. Displays of furniture, tapestry, Priory sculpture, Wealden iron work, Lambert watercolours, Sussex pottery, Harmer terracottas and Lewes Town History Room. Southover Grange (F4) Built in 1572 with Caen stone from the demolished Priory, John Evelyn the diarist grew up here. Now the Registry Office. The tranquil gardens are a pleasure to stroll through with a Crafts Gallery and a café in the summer months. PLACES OF INTEREST Keere Street (E3) Steep and cobbled, was partly built on the ditch of the town wall. The 15thC Bookshop (E3) A milestone giving the distance from London is set in the jettied timber framing. Bull House (E3) remodelled about 1583 with gabled porch and carved satyrs. Tom Paine, lodged here between 1768 and 1774 and married his landlord’s daughter. Later, in the New World, he championed American independence. Susequently he wrote the great democratic text ‘The Rights of Man’ which fuelled the French Revolution. Westgate Street (E3) The twin turretted Westgate itself was demolished in 18thC. A replica sign of the former White Lion Inn remains high upon the wall. Pipe Passage (E3) runs along the top of the western stretch of the town wall and was once the site of a clay pipe factory. The Roundhouse (E3) which was formed from the base of a flour mill built in 1802, was briefly owned by ‘Bloomsbury’ writer Virginia Woolf. Castle Place (E4) Built in 1819 by the architect Amon Wilds for Dr. Gideon Mantell, features giant pilasters with ammonite capitals. Mantell, an eminent geologist, was the first to identify bones, from Tilgate Forest, of a dinosaur later named ‘Iguanadon’. THE KINGS CHURCH WCD Town Map art 4.qxp_Town Map art+text 03/08/2018 09:27 Page 1
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HISTORIC LEWESTwittens. (1-11)These parallel lanes and pedestrianalleys, dropping steeply from the HighStreet to the town’s southern defences,probably date from the planning of Lewesas a Saxon stronghold by King Alfred theGreat in c879. Some have now beenwidened into roads, but originally wouldhave looked much as Walwers Lane andChurch Twitten (E6) do today.
The Castle (D3) Laid out by William deWarenne after the battle of Hastings toreinforce his control of Lewes Rape.Early Norman shell keep with 13thCturrets and early 14thC barbican (outergateway) with arrow loops and portcullisgrooves. From the keep there are splen-did views of the South Downs, the Ouseestuary and the wooded Weald.
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Barbican House Museum (E4) This finehouse near the castle entrance has amid- 18thC facade, 16thC and late 17thCinterior and houses prehistoric, Romanand medieval artefacts. See also theLewes Town Model, a scale model withaudio-visual show tracing the town’s his-tory.
Lewes Priory Parks (G4+5) A Cluniachouse founded in c1077 by William andGundrada de Warenne, dedicated to StPancras, and largely destroyed byThomas Cromwell in 1538. Fragments ofthe great gatehouse and domestic build-ings remain.
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for information on accommodation,attractions, places to eat and places tosee in Lewes and the surrounding area.The office also stocks a wide range ofliterature including the illustrated TownGuide, the official Town Guidebook. Radarkeys for the disabled toilets are availablehere.
ENJOY YOUR VISITThis map has been provided by theFriends of Lewes in conjunction withLewes District Council and Lewes TownCouncil.
Pelham House (E5) Just off the HighStreet with fine Renaissance panellingand elegant Georgian staircase, was builtfor an Elizabethan courtier in 1579.
Lewes Crown Court (E5)(once the County Hall)
The Town Hall (E5) was called the StarInn until 1893. Its medieval cellar, splen-did Renaissance staircase and Georgianassembly-room remain behind thegauged brickwork of the Victorianfacade.
Market Tower (D6) was once the mainentrance to the provision market, nowholds a painting of Tom Paine by JulianBell. Above the arch are the BoroughArms, and the town bell, ‘Gabriel’, is aloft.
Lewes House (D7) is owned by LewesDistrict Council, with austere lateGeorgian grey brick at the front, charm-ing early Georgian red brick at the back.Wealthy aesthete and collector EdwardWarren lived here and commissionedRodin’s The Kiss in 1900. The statue leftLewes for the Tate Gallery in 1933.
Fitzroy House (D6) at the bottom of thehill, was built in 1862 on the site of theFranciscan Friary by the architect SirGeorge Gilbert Scott in Venetian Gothicstyle as a library and memorial to LewesMP, Henry Fitzroy. The other formerLewes library in Albion Street (D6), nowan architects’ office, was designed as aSchool of Art. The lamps date from theDiamond Jubilee in 1897.
Eastgate House (D6) built in 1823, has aGeorgian facade with an Art Nouveauextension. It was formerly a stonema-son’s office and yard.
All Saints Arts Centre (E6) Now a thrivingcentre for theatre, cinema, music and art.The former church has a 16thC tower andgalleried Georgian nave. Fine restoredGeorgian box tombs in the churchyard.
Cliffe Bridge (D7) over the Ouse. Itswooden arch was replaced by stone in1727. Railway Lane (D7) On the westbank of the Ouse is a collection of river-side buildings once included A the TownWharf, B the former Tabernacle SundaySchool, C the Viper Store with its wingedserpent, and D Stricklands granary(c1850). Now converted into riversideappartments.
Harvey’s Brewery (D7) established in1790, is now the only survivor of sevenVictorian breweries in the town.
Cliffe High Street (D7) leads to CliffeSquare, sometimes known as LambertCorner (D8) after the painter J. Lambert.
Mathematical Tiles, which are a featureon many houses in Lewes. Red and blackmathematical tiles came into fashionlocally in the 1780s. Usually hung ontimber frames, they saved frontage spaceand imitated brick. A H on the mapdenotes especially distinctive mathe-matical tiled buildings.
ELSEWHERE IN LEWESMartyrs’ Memorial (B8) Raised ‘in lovingmemory’ of the 17 Protestant martyrsburned in Lewes High Street during thereign of Queen Mary. Still a focus for‘Bonfire’ observance.
The Russian Memorial (C5) An obelisk(1877) raised by Czar Alexander II asGrand Duke of Finland. It honours 28Finnish soldiers captured in the Balticduring the Crimean War, who died ofdisease at the old (now demolished)Lewes Naval Prison.
Battle of Lewes Memorial 1964 (G6)Given by Lord Chelwood and designed byEnzo Piazzotta. The site of the battle,fought in 1264 between Henry III andSimon de Montfort, can best be seenfrom a lectern view-point in the CastlePrecincts.
The Ammonite sculpture (C7) at the
entrance to the Cuilfail road tunnel,opened in 1981, celebrates the fossil richchalkland of the Downs.
Lewes H. M. Prison (D1) (1853) Built byD.R.Hill with ‘frowning’ towers andcramped windows.
Old Race Course (A1) Scene of an annualKing’s Plate by 1718 and later patronisedby the George IV when Prince Regent,and Edward Vll. The gallops are still usedfor training racehorses.
Malling Deanery (B5) A fine classicalcomposition in Wealden brick, built about1700, within the precinct of the medievalDeanery. Now private appartments.
Malling House (A5) owned by theArchbishop of Canterbury until theReformation. The mansion was rebuilt byJohn Spence in 1710. Now the SussexPolice Headquarters.
The Greenwich Meridian (D1) 0° longi-tude is marked by a plaque in thepavement in Western Road, and by amonument in Meridian Road (B2).
The Railway Station (F6) ServingLondon, Brighton, Newhaven, Seaford,Eastbourne and Hastings.
The Bus Station (D6) Services leave fromthis area to Brighton, Uckfield, TunbridgeWells, Ringmer and the surrounding dis-trict.
LEISURE/NATURE/SPORTS Lewes is surrounded by wonderful coun-tryside, and a network of footpaths (seemap) which lead on to the Downs, OuseValley and the Weald. There are severalnature reserves within the town where youcan observe a variety of wildlife. Sportsenthusiasts are also well catered for.
The Railway Land local Nature Reserve(F7) borders the River Ouse. Part of thereserve was originally railway sidings.The habitat now includes woodland
watermeadows, ponds, and the environ-mental sculpture ‘Heart of Reeds’. Goodfor bird watching.
Malling Down Nature Reserve (A8) Thisis a designated Site of Special ScientificInterest. Downland flora, and the veryrare Adonis Blue butterfly can be seenhere.
Landport Bottom (A1) a dry valley, oncebelieved to be the site of the Battle ofLewes, now managed to restore itsdownland turf for public access.
Juggs Road (H1) Ancient lane leading toBrighton via Newmarket Hill. Once usedby fishwives to reach Lewes market.
The Pells Area (C4) The Prior of Leweskept a swannery here. From 1802 the ‘L’shaped duckponds powered a papermill.The adjoining open air swimming pool(1860) is the oldest in England. Children’splay area nearby.
Lewes Leisure Centre (G7) Large indoorpool and flume, fitness room, steam roomand sauna.
The Mount, Dripping Pan and ConventField (G6) Adjoining the Priory Park arepossibly the remains of an Elizabethanprospect mound and a bowling green.The Dripping Pan is now home ground toLewes Football Club ‘The Rooks’, with thenew £G pitch, whilst the Convent Fieldand surrounding area provides facilitiesfor other sports as well as a playgroundfor small children.
Stanley Turner Ground (H1) Home ofLewes Rugby Club, also cricket, hockey.
Southdown Club (H4) All weather tennis,squash and hockey club.
Hangman’s Acre (D3) and Gallows Bank(D4) Macabre history but Hangman’sAcre is now allotment gardens andrecreation ground called the Paddockwith children’s play area. Nearby the
place of execution may have been thesite of the present Elephant and Castlepublic house (D4).
PLACES OF WORSHIPTHREE TRINITY CHURCHES
1. St Michael’s, South Malling (B4) Thechurch of the medieval foundation wasdemolished in the year 1550. JohnEvelyn’s grandfather built the presentchurch in 1626. John Harvard, founder ofHarvard University was married here.2. St John the Baptist, Southover (G3)Originally a hospitium (guest house) bythe Priory gate. The Norman nave arcadedivided the wards. The South Chapelcontains the superbly carved blackTournai marble tomb slab of Gundrada,which once covered her grave in thePriory Chapter House. Fine Georgianbrick tower with copper weather vane inthe form of a basking shark.3. St John sub-castro (under the castle)(D5) A doorway, and a memorial toMagnus, a medieval anchorite, survivefrom a Saxon Church, built in anentrenched enclosure within the N.W.corner of the town walls. The presentchurch (1839) has fine Victorian glass.
St Anne’s (E2) Norman tower, south door-way, font and nave arcade; 13thC chan-cel; remains of anchoress’s cell; naveroof c1538; Jacobean pulpit; gallery witharms of George IV.
St Michael’s (E3) 12thC(?) round flinttower, 14thC arcade, Georgian facade ofknapped flint with excellent Victorianstained glass windows by Henry Holland.Also a picturesque shaded churchyard.
St Thomas á Becket, Cliffe (D8) Theparish church of Cliffe. Thomas á Becket,the martyred Archbishop of Canterburyhad a palace nearby at South Malling. Ithas a 14thC nave, 15thC tower and Gothicporch.
Jireh Chapel (1805) (C7) A stronghold ofCalvinistic Independents. Red mathemat-
ical tiles, chequered brickwork and hungslates. The famous evangelist and coalheaver, William Huntington S.S. (SINNER
SAVED) is buried in the yard.
Friends Meeting House (1784) (E7) Neatlybuilt with red and black mathematicaltiles. Next-door is a Perpendicular arch-way, perhaps from the Greyfriars.
Westgate Unitarian Chapel (1700) (E3)
Eastgate Baptist Church (1843) (D6)
St Pancras Roman Catholic Church (1870)(E2)
Christ Church United Reform/Methodist(1954) (C2)
Kings Church (modern) (C6)
SHOPPING AND EATINGLewes holds a variety of traditional andspecialist shops and is an internationalcentre for antiques and antiquarianbooks, boasting major auction houses.
Shops are concentrated in the HighStreet from Westgate to Eastgate, in thePedestrian Precinct, which includes theRiverside complex, and in Cliffe HighStreet where there is general shoppingand several antique markets. Shopping isalso to be found in many side streets.
Needlemakers and Candle Factory (D6) A Victorian industrial building nowconverted to shops, offices and café,
The Star Brewery workshops (D5) nowhouse arts and crafts activities and anexhibition gallery.
The town has many pubs (see key), someof which sell Harveys, the locally brewedale. It also has several hotels with a varietyof cafés, restaurants, sandwich bars andtake-aways in the town centre.Lewes lies within the South DownsNational Park - the largest town so to do.
café. Displays of furniture, tapestry, Priorysculpture, Wealden iron work, Lambertwatercolours, Sussex pottery, Harmerterracottas and Lewes Town HistoryRoom.
Southover Grange (F4) Built in 1572 withCaen stone from the demolished Priory,John Evelyn the diarist grew up here. Nowthe Registry Office. The tranquil gardensare a pleasure to stroll through with aCrafts Gallery and a café in the summermonths.
PLACES OF INTEREST Keere Street (E3) Steep and cobbled, waspartly built on the ditch of the town wall.
The 15thC Bookshop (E3) A milestonegiving the distance from London is set inthe jettied timber framing.
Bull House (E3) remodelled about 1583with gabled porch and carved satyrs. TomPaine, lodged here between 1768 and 1774and married his landlord’s daughter. Later,in the New World, he championedAmerican independence. Susequently hewrote the great democratic text ‘TheRights of Man’ which fuelled the FrenchRevolution.
Westgate Street (E3) The twin turrettedWestgate itself was demolished in 18thC.A replica sign of the former White Lion Innremains high upon the wall.
Pipe Passage (E3) runs along the top ofthe western stretch of the town wall andwas once the site of a clay pipe factory.
The Roundhouse (E3) which was formedfrom the base of a flour mill built in 1802,was briefly owned by ‘Bloomsbury’ writerVirginia Woolf.
Castle Place (E4) Built in 1819 by thearchitect Amon Wilds for Dr. GideonMantell, features giant pilasters withammonite capitals. Mantell, an eminentgeologist, was the first to identify bones,from Tilgate Forest, of a dinosaur laternamed ‘Iguanadon’.
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