Description

LAMBERHURST CLAY HILL ROAD
TQ 63 NE
(west side)
3/145 Bayham L'Eglise
24.7.89
GV II

Church, now house. 1870 for Marquess Camden, by David Brandon, architect, extended c.1908 and converted 1985. Random coursed dressed sandstone with
ashlar dressings and plain tiled roof. Nave and chancel with south-east
tower and south porch and north-east vestry. Plinth around whole building,
with corner and occasional side buttresses (especially north nave wall)
and parapet gables to nave and chancel with enriched cross finials. Tower broached to spire with full lucarne stage. Half-timbered porch on
sandstone base, with glazed outer doors and moulded inner door in roll
moulded doorway. Trecusped and paired lancets throughout, with shafted and
grouped lancets to east and west windows with roundels and hood moulds
over, the east window with inserted arched doorway. Simple mullioned
windows to vestry. Main internal arches retained. Built as the Bayham
estate church and an important element in the landscaped park to Bayham
Abbey, the Marquess Camden's house, also by Brandon, and which also
includes the remains of the medieval abbey (in East Sussex).

Listing NGR: TQ6511036652

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26621181

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings