Lewes St Michael Sussex Family History Guide

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Lewes St Michael, also known as Lewes St Andrew, is an Ancient Parish in the county of Sussex.

Parish church: St. Michael’s, High street

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1579
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1606

Nonconformists include: Presbyterian and Unitarian.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

Kelly’s Directory of Sussex 1915

St. Michael’s parish church, in the High street, partly rebuilt in 1755, is of flint and stone, in the Perpendicular style, and has a tower, with spire, containing 2 bells: there is a monument to Sir Nicholas Pelham knt. M.P. d. 1560, and two brasses : the church was restored and enlarged in 1885, at a cost of £3,060 : since 1896 the
church has been decorated at a further cost of £1,300, and affords 300 sittings. The register dates from the
year 1521. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £175, with residence, in the gift of the Society for the Maintenance of the Faith, and held since 1896 by the Rev. Robert Henry Belcher M.A., LL.D. fellow of King’s College, London, and surrogate. The parish club adjoins the church, and has a tower with a projecting clock.

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