Ruins of A College of Benedictine Canons at Old Malling Farm, Lewes is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 August 1965. Ruins.
Ruins of A College of Benedictine Canons at Old Malling Farm, Lewes
- WRENN ID
- strange-buttress-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1965
- Type
- Ruins
- OS grid reference
- TQ 409 113
- Coordinates
- 50.8846, 0.0028
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The ruins of a College of Benedictine Canons are located at Old Malling Farm in Lewes. This college was originally founded around 765 by Aldulf, Prince or Duke of the South Saxons, and was refounded by Archbishop Theobald for Benedictine Canons in 1150, dedicated to St Michael. The college later relocated to the site of the present Malling Deanery. It was suppressed in 1547, and by 1628, the church had disappeared, leading to the construction of the current Parish Church of St Michael, South Malling. The only remnants of the college above ground at the original site are a piece of rubble wall in the garden of Old Malling Farm, which is a 19th-century house, along with the remains of a pointed window that is barely visible above ground level. There are no visible remains at the second site.
Local climate
Ruins of A College of Benedictine Canons at Old Malling Farm, Lewes receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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