Russian Memorial in the Churchyard of St John Sub Castro is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1985. Memorial.
Russian Memorial in the Churchyard of St John Sub Castro
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-hall-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1985
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Russian Memorial in the Churchyard of St John Sub Castro, Abinger Place, Lewes
- OS grid reference
- TQ 415 104
- Coordinates
- 50.87641, 0.0102
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Russian memorial in the churchyard of St John sub Castro is a memorial built around 1877 in a neo-Gothic style by John Strong, a mason from Lewes. It features a stone structure on an octagonal stone base with a moulded round plinth. The memorial has an octagonal drum adorned with marble shafts that support cusped pointed arches and the ribs of a pointed octagonal spire. Above, there is an octagonal tabernacle feature that supports a cross.
The memorial is inscribed with the names of Russian soldiers who died while imprisoned in Lewes during the Crimean War. The east panel reads, "Sacred to the Memory of the Russian Soldiers who died Prisoners of War in Lewes in the years 1854, 1855, 1856." The west panel states, "RAISED by the order of His Majesty the Emperor of RUSSIA Alexander II 1877. THE MEMORIAL was restored by the Embassy of the USSR 1957 at the instance of the Friends of Lewes Society."
Local climate
Russian Memorial in the Churchyard of St John Sub Castro 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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