Market Tower is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1952. A C18 Market tower. 5 related planning applications.
Market Tower
- WRENN ID
- dim-chalk-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1952
- Type
- Market tower
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TQ 4110 SE LEWES HIGH STREET 10/250 (north side)
25.2.52 Market Tower
GV II
Market tower. 1792. Red and brown brick with stone bands and window dressings. Plat bands over each floor on tower and crenellated parapet. 4 storey tower with lower and narrower 2 storey side wings. Diagonal buttresses to first and second floors of tower, cut back in squinches at their bases. Round-headed window with Y-tracery at third floor level with clock below on second floor and 2 quatrefoil windows on first floor with swagged crest above and plaque below. Round-arched gateway on ground-floor with stone key and impost-blocks. 2 storey, single window wings with crow-stepped gables. Terracotta-dressed 3-light windows with cusped arched lights. The Town Bell 'Gabriel', 'new cast in 1555' and originally hung in the tower of the old Church of St Nicholas which stood on the site of the war memorial (q.v.), was removed on the demolition of the tower in 1761 and placed in the new tower in 1792. The crest, of terracotta, shows the Town Arms, and has been attributed to Jonathan Harmer of Heathfield.
Listing NGR: TQ4159110170
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