All Saint's Community Centre is a Grade II* listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1952. A Medieval Parish church.

All Saint's Community Centre

WRENN ID
ghost-chancel-briar
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
South Downs National Park
Constituency
Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 February 1952
Type
Parish church
Period
Medieval
Address
All Saint's Community Centre, Friar's Walk, Lewes
OS grid reference
TQ 417 100
Coordinates
50.87234, 0.01338
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

All Saints Community Centre, originally a parish church, features an early 16th-century tower and a nave built in 1806 by Amon Wilds. The chancel and transepts were added in 1883 by W. Basset Smith and E.J. Munt, designed in a 13th-century lancet style with Decorated style transepts. The tower and east end are constructed of flint with stone dressings, while the nave is made of red brick with stone quoins and brick window dressings. The roofs are plain tiled, with gable crosses on the eastern gables.

The building has a very low three-stage tower with diagonal buttresses and a projecting coped parapet. The tower features simple double belfry openings with arched heads and square-headed surrounds, along with single square-headed openings on the second stage. The west face has a wide moulded three-centred arch below, with double ribbed and studded doors. The nave consists of six bays with boxed eaves, arched windows with radiating glazing bars on the first floor, and segment-headed windows below. The east end is supported by clasping buttresses, while the transepts have curvilinear tracery in their north and south windows. The three-bay chancel includes lancets separated by stepped buttresses, with a triple lancet window at the east end.

Inside, the nave retains its original galleries on the north, south, and west sides, supported by thin columns, and features a shallow stucco vault above. Most of the original fittings have been removed, but there is stained glass from 1880 and 1884 by Henry Holiday. A notable monument commemorates John Stansfield, who died in 1626, featuring a coat-of-arms and an inscription flanked by kneelers of John and his wife. At the time of the resurvey, the church was being converted into a community centre, with the chancel blocked off from the rest of the building.

Local climate

All Saint's Community Centre 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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