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St Anne

St Anne

Lewes

East Sussex

Early C12, late C12, C15, restored in 1889.

Architectural Features

Horsham slab roofs with some replacement plain tiles.

Five-bay nave north wall with north porch, on which has been reset the former C12 doorway.

Cross-gabled chapel to the west with paired C15-type windows in square surround.

Arcade of late C12 on drum piers with square abaci.

Pointed arches with chamfers except round-arched easternmost bay, showing existence of earlier C12 transetal chapel.

Chapel with quadripartite rib-vault and boss of similar carving to capitals of south arcade and possibly of similar date.

Nave roof of queen posts and curved queen struts, dated 1538.

Font: C12, drum-shaped with basket-weave decoration, band of plait below and pellet above.

Glass: south transept by Capronnier of Brussels, 1889.

Pulpit: 1620, on angle columns with panels of lions' heads.