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===Church of England=== * St Michael's is located at the top of the High Street and like St Peter's in nearby [[Southease]] it has a round tower (with a shingled spire). Its length runs along the street rather than away from it and the cemetery is separated from the High Street by stone walls with iron railings on top. Next to it is a building which is used upstairs as a [[Sunday school]]. * Further west is St Anne's,<ref>[http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/sx/lewsa/index.htm Details of Church of St. Anne, Lewes from Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland]{{dead link|date=August 2011}}</ref> a quiet church surrounded by its graveyard, which gives its name to the street it is on. * [[Church of St John sub Castro, Lewes|St John sub Castro]] ([[Latin language|Latin]] for St John-under-the-Castle) is the northernmost church in the old town. The surrounding town quarter is called St John's. The church's boundaries are actually protected on one side by the Town Walls, although originally St John's was a small [[Saxon architecture|Saxon]] building. It was destroyed in the 19th century but the main door was kept and used as an east door for the large new church, built in 1839 by George Cheeseman<ref name="buildings1">''The Buildings of England: Sussex'' β [[Ian Nairn]], [[Nikolaus Pevsner]]</ref> in [[flint]] and [[brick]]. In the graveyard there is a [[Russian Memorial, Lewes|memorial to the Finnish prisoners]] kept in the old naval prison in the 19th century. St John's Church Hall is a couple of streets away in Talbot Terrace. * In Cliffe there is St Thomas Γ Becket's, where the [[Orthodoxy|Orthodox]] Community also worship. * In Southover, St John the Baptist's is located on Southover High Street. The nave incorporates the [[hospitium]] of the [http://www.lewespriory.org.uk/ Priory of St Pancras].<ref>{{cite web |author=Stephen Bamber |url=http://www.southover.org.uk/history/history2.htm |title=Southover Church Website β Who We Were |publisher=Southover.org.uk |access-date=18 June 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070323020511/http://www.southover.org.uk/history/history2.htm |archive-date=23 March 2007}}</ref> Neighbouring it is Church End and down the road at St James Street [[cul-de-sac]], the Church Hall. In its grounds is the Southover War Memorial, which is distinct from the main [[Lewes War Memorial]]. * St. Michael, [[South Malling]], dates from 1628. ====Deconsecrated==== * All Saints' is next to the site of a [[Priory]] of [[Grey Friars]] ([[Franciscan]] friars) the only relic of which is an archway at the end of the church boundary wall, which is on the line of the town wall. The medieval tower survives, abutting a later brick nave by [[Amon Wilds]] (1806)<ref name="buildings1"/> and 19th-century Gothic-style chancel. This church is now deconsecrated and serves as a community arts space, managed by the Town Council.<ref>{{citation |title=All Saints Centre |access-date=3 February 2015 |url=http://www.lewes-town.co.uk/infopage.asp?infoid=615 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204120801/http://www.lewes-town.co.uk/infopage.asp?infoid=615 |archive-date=4 February 2015}}</ref>
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