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   What is Lewes known for?

   • The town's landmarks include Lewes Castle, Lewes Priory, Bull House (the former home of Thomas Paine), Southover Grange and public gardens, and a 16th-century timber-framed Wealden hall house known as Anne of Cleves House. Other notable features of the area include the Glyndebourne festival, the Lewes Bonfire celebrations and the Lewes Pound.

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   Where is Lewes Priory cricket club based?

   • Lewes Priory Cricket Club is based at the Stanley Turner Ground, Kingston Road. The club were Sussex League champions in 1986 and 1990 and Division 2 winners in 1999, 2006 and 2008. The club has active senior, junior and social sections

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   What were the endowments of the priory of Lewes?

   • The endowments of the priory grew apace, the founder giving the tithes of all his lands with special rights in his fisheries and market of Lewes, and adding the church and manor of Castle Acre in Norfolk where he proposed to found a monastery, as was afterwards done, to be under that of Lewes.

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   Is Lewes a Catholic Church?

   • The Roman Catholic church is dedicated to St. Pancras in memory of the Priory and is a red-brick building over the street from St Anne's. Lewes Friends Meeting House (finished 1784) is a Quaker meeting house next to the former All Saints' Church (now an arts centre) on Friar's Walk.

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   Was prior Arnald a prior of Lewes?

   • The Annales record the death of ' Prior Arnald' this year, but it is not certain that he was prior of Lewes; Suss. Arch. Coll. ii, 24; iii, 195. 75. Witnessed Reg. of Warenne's charter granting merchant guild to Lewes (Cott. MS. Nero, C. iii, fol. 190); occurs in charter of 1154 and other deeds; Suss. Arch. Coll. iii, 195. 76.

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   Where is Lewes located?

   • Lewes is situated on the Greenwich or Prime Meridian, in a gap in the South Downs, cut through by the River Ouse, and near its confluence with the Winterbourne Stream. It is approximately seven miles north of Newhaven, and an equal distance north-east of Brighton. The South Downs rise above the river on both banks.

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2. leweshistory.org.uk › 2024/09/27 › lewes-prioryLewes Priory Guided Tour, Saturday 28th September 2024

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   Sep 27, 2024 · This tour brings to life the splendour and colour of the Priory as we walk through the remains of its massive buildings – plus the rare opportunity to see inside the Gundrada Chapel at Southover Church.

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   4 days ago · The priory of St. Pancras was most fortunate in having as its first head Lanzo, a man of preeminent piety, whose noble example made his monastery of Lewes famous as an abode of spiritual excellence and its monks models of devotion, courtesy, and charity.

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   Sep 28, 2024 · Over 450 years, between c.1080 and 1538, Lewes Priory became the richest religious house in Sussex and the most important of the English Cluniac foundations – in architecture, influence, art and learning.

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   Sep 26, 2024 · The Cluniacs had only one priory, but that was the greatest house of the order in England—the priory of St. Pancras at Lewes, whose possessions extended almost all over the kingdom. The monks of Lewes held at one time or another no fewer than fifty-six churches in Sussex.

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   6 days ago · The borough now returns two County Councillors to the East Sussex County Council from the electoral divisions of Lewes Bridge and Castle, and Lewes Priory. Courts. Our ignorance of the actual constitutional powers of the independent Norman borough obscures also the origins of the courts.

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   1 day ago · In 1556 Richard Crane bequeathed to his son Peter a messuage and a garden of half an acre in Kingston near Lewes, held of the queen in socage, as of the late priory of Lewes.

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   1 day ago · The town is the location of several significant historic buildings, including Lewes Castle, the remains of Lewes Priory, Bull House (the former home of Thomas Paine), Southover Grange and public gardens, and a 16th-century timber-framed Wealden hall house known as Anne of Cleves House because it was given to her as part of her divorce settlement from Henry VIII, though she never lived there.