St. Anne's Churchyard
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St. Anne's Churchyard

Lewes, Lewes District, East Sussex, England

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    Lewes, Lewes District, East Sussex BN7 1RP England
    Coordinates: 50.87234, 0.00177
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St Anne's lies at the top of Lewes's long High Street close to the stretch of downs where the Battle of Lewes was fought in 1264. It was originally known as St Mary Westout, but by the sixteenth century was generally associated with St Anne, the patron saint of wells, probably from its proximity to a healing well.
Of particular interest are 12 iron leaping boards in the north-west corner; these are associated with the Medhursts, a family involved in ironworks near to the church.Most, though not all, of recent interments have been in the southeast corner of the churchyard.
As a millennium project a record was made of all the memorials in the churchyard. When the project was completed (at the end of 2003), there were 451 memorials (of which 52 are completely illegible) and there were 828 names (or initials) listed. The earliest legible date is 1736 and the latest date was 2003, though some memorials have been added since then.
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St Anne's lies at the top of Lewes's long High Street close to the stretch of downs where the Battle of Lewes was fought in 1264. It was originally known as St Mary Westout, but by the sixteenth century was generally associated with St Anne, the patron saint of wells, probably from its proximity to a healing well.
Of particular interest are 12 iron leaping boards in the north-west corner; these are associated with the Medhursts, a family involved in ironworks near to the church.Most, though not all, of recent interments have been in the southeast corner of the churchyard.
As a millennium project a record was made of all the memorials in the churchyard. When the project was completed (at the end of 2003), there were 451 memorials (of which 52 are completely illegible) and there were 828 names (or initials) listed. The earliest legible date is 1736 and the latest date was 2003, though some memorials have been added since then.
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