Lewes All Saints Sussex Family History Guide
Lewes All Saints is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Sussex.
Parish church: All Saints’, Friar’s walk
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1561
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1606
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Particular Baptist, and Society of Friends/Quaker.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Lewes St Thomas at Cliffe
- Lewes St John the Baptist, Southover
- South Malling
- Lewes the Castle Precincts
- Lewes St John sub Castro
- Lewes St Michael
Parish History
Kelly’s Directory of Sussex 1915
All Saints’ church, Friars walk, originally dedicated to St. Peter, but rebuilt at the end of the 16th century and re-erected, with the exception of the tower, in 1807, is a structure of brick, in mixed styles, and has a western tower containing 3 bells : the interior was restored in 1872, at a cost of £800, and in 1883 the present chancel and transepts were erected, at a cost, including stained windows, of £3,500: the church will seat 780 persons. The register dates from the year 1561. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £212. with residence and 9 acres of glebe, in the gift of Charles Goring esq. of Wiston Park, and held since 1901 by the Rev. Alexander David Charles Clarke M.A. of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and surrogate.
Historical Maps
Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps
Administration
- County: Sussex
- Civil Registration District: Lewes
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) of Chichester for the Archdeaconry of Lewes
- Diocese: Chichester
- Rural Deanery: Lewes
- Poor Law Union: Lewes
- Hundred: Lewes Borough
- Province: Canterbury