View of priory remains, in the direction of the site of the Great Church (now bisected by railway line) | |
Monastery information | |
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Full name | The Priory of St Pancras, Southover near Lewes |
Other names | Lewes Priory |
Order | Cluniac |
Established | circa 1081 |
Disestablished | 16 November 1537 |
Mother house | Cluny |
Dedicated to | St Pancras of Rome |
Controlled churches | St. John the Evangelist, Piddinghoe, St. Nicholas. Iford. |
People | |
Founder(s) | William de Warenne, Earl of Surrey and Gundrada |
Site | |
Location | Southover, East Sussex, United Kingdom |
Coordinates | 50°52′5.33″N 0°0′29.63″E / 50.8681472°N 0.0082306°E |
Visible remains | limited above ground: part precinct wall, hospitium, dorter, rere dorter, first church |
Public access | yes, free all year round |
Lewes Priory is a part-demolished medieval Cluniac priory in Lewes, East Sussex in the United Kingdom. The ruins have been designated a Grade I listed building.[1]
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