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Fitzroy House is a Victorian building on the High Street in Lewes, East Sussex, England. It was originally Fitzroy Memorial Library, designed by architect George Gilbert Scott in neo-Gothic style and built in 1862. In 1897 it became Lewes' first public library, until 1956 when it became offices.
The left front of the house faces the gate of Lewes Castle. [2] A 1907 fire in Lewes High Street which spread for an hour and a half was contained before damaging Barbican House. [ 1 ] In 1952, the house became a Grade II* listed building .
The place-name "Lewes" is first attested in an Anglo-Saxon charter circa 961 AD, where it appears as Læwe.It appears as Lewes in the Domesday Book of 1086. [7] The addition of the <-s> suffix seems to have been part of a broader trend of Anglo-Norman scribes pluralising Anglo-Saxon place-names (a famous example being their rendering of Lunden as Londres, hence the modern French name for London).
Lewes (/ ˈ l uː. ə s / LOO-əss) [5] is an incorporated city on the Delaware Bay in eastern Sussex County, Delaware, United States.According to the 2020 census, its population was 3,303. [6]
Lewes Historic District is a national historic district located at Lewes, Sussex County, Delaware.The district includes 122 contributing buildings and 6 contributing sites encompassing most of the 17th-century town of Lewes, together with part of Pilot Town.
The family moved to Cliffe, near Lewes, about 1730. He received little education. He received some instruction in music; from 1745 until his death he was the organist of the church of St Thomas-at-Cliffe, and he published volumes of psalms and hymns. He was known in Lewes as a "herald painter", and painted many inn signs.
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The Delaware Breakwater is a set of breakwaters east of Lewes, Delaware on Cape Henlopen that form Lewes Harbor. They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 12, 1976. The original 1,700-foot (520 m) and 2,800-foot (850 m) breakwaters were built in 1828. [ 1 ]