Description

In the entry for

TQ 4109 NW LEWES HIGH STREET
14/182 (south side)

25.2.52 Westgate Chapel

"Wooden door to right is round headed stone arch surround" shall be added to
the description, after the last sentence in the ninth row, before "Interior".

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TQ 4109 NW LEWES HIGH STREET
14/182 (south side)

25.2.52 Westgate Chapel

GV II*

Chapel. 1583, converted 1698, altered and restored in C19. Timber-
framed. Knapped flint cladding on high plinth with chamfered stone plinth
band. Tilehung above to righthand side of east end. Part tilehung and
part plastered entrance front to north. North front: Doorway in red
brick porch with paired half-glazed doors and flat hood on console brackets
over. Plaque over porch recording origin of chapel. East front:
Two 6-light chamfered transom and mullion windows on east end that to right
surrounded by tilehanging and wood, that to left stone with three-light
chamfered mullion window above. Plain tiled roofs. Interior:
Main chapel: High dado panelling with four recessed arches on tall round
(probably wooden) columns to north. That at right open below impost level,
centre pair with tall three-light cavetto-mullioned diamond-lattice windows
lighting room beyond. Tall six-light cavetto-mullioned diamond-latticed windows
at east and west ends and two on south side. Late C19 organ in recess next
to sanctuary. C19 carved panelled pulpit on right of sanctuary. Arched
recess above dado panelling on south side wall, original position of pulpit
prior to 1913. Moulded stone octagonal font on octagonal stem. Church
hall: Dado panelling, C19. Two heavy beams on wooden brackets, supported at
the south by the columns. The hall and vestibule were divided from the
chapel in 1915. Small panelled and be-bookshelved minister's room adjoining
on south side.

Listing NGR: TQ4128509955

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17555602

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