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Remains of Inner Gatehouse and Walls to East and West, Lewes castle: Lewes: Wall: 12th century: 16 March 1970 1293875: Remains of Inner Gatehouse and ...
Lewes Castle is a medieval castle in the town of Lewes in East Sussex, England. Originally called Bray Castle, it occupies a commanding position guarding the gap in the South Downs cut by the River Ouse and occupied by the towns of Lewes and Cliffe. It stands on a man-made mount just to the north of the high street in Lewes, and is constructed ...
Firle, Lewes: Gate: Late 18th century or early 19th century: 17 March 1952 1275469 ... Castle Place Nos 165 and 167, and Railings Lewes: Row House: 1810: 25 February 1952
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).
Other notable buildings include St. Peter's Episcopal Church, the Ellis Marine Complex, Cannonball House, Governor Ebe W. Tunnell House, Walsh Building, Zwaanendael Museum (1932), Cornelius Burton House, Lewes Historical Society enclave, and the De Wolf Houses. The contributing sites include the site of an 18th-century fort and the 1812 Park.
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]
The Lewes Priory Trust currently manages the site on behalf of Lewes Town Council who are the freeholder. [4] The Priory is a nationally important historical site but an almost lost monument of mediaeval England, the buildings having been systematically demolished after the dissolution of the monasteries in the reign of Henry VIII.
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 .