Bayham Leglise

Bayham L'Eglise is a church that has been converted into a house. It was built in 1870 for the Marquess Camden, designed by architect David Brandon, and was extended around 1908 and converted in 1985. The building is constructed of random coursed dressed sandstone with ashlar dressings and features a plain tiled roof. It consists of a nave and chancel, a south-east tower, a south porch, and a north-east vestry.

There is a plinth surrounding the entire structure, with corner and occasional side buttresses, particularly on the north nave wall, and parapet gables on both the nave and chancel, topped with enriched cross finials. The tower is broached to a spire and includes a full lucarne stage. The porch is half-timbered, resting on a sandstone base, and has glazed outer doors with a moulded inner door set in a roll moulded doorway.

The church features trefoiled and paired lancets throughout, with shafted and grouped lancets in the east and west windows, which also have roundels and hood moulds above. The east window includes an inserted arched doorway, while the vestry has simple mullioned windows. The main internal arches have been retained. This building was originally constructed as the church for the Bayham estate and is an important part of the landscaped park surrounding Bayham Abbey, the Marquess Camden's house, which was also designed by Brandon and includes the remains of a medieval abbey in East Sussex.