Gateway And Walls To Priory Of St Pancras

TQ 4109 NW LEWES PRIORY CRESCENT 14/352 (south side)

25-2-52 Gateway and walls to Priory of St Pancras (formerly listed as Archway adjoining No 12)

GV II

Gateway and walls. C13, now built into wall. Stone with flint and stone walling and some red brick repairs. Z-plan piece of walling, extending from point adjacent to north-east of Church of St. John Southover in three stretches to the north-west corner of Priory Crescent. North-west stretch: circa 10 feet high and 7 yards long with the remains of a dressed stone arch on the north side at the eastern and western ends. A mask of grotesque character has been inserted in the wall to the right fo the remains of the arch. Central stretch: 5 yards long with buttressing wall to east. Main gate: formerly the pedestrian entrance to the Priory. Pointed arched gateway in short stretch of dressed stone wall to south-east. Double-chamfered arch on double-ordered piers. Much eroded at time of resurvey. Later C20 gateway of wrought-iron with dograils and decorative cross-pieces. The gateway was moved and re-erected from its original place to the west of the Church.

Listing NGR: TQ4128809663