Christ Church, Lewes
Christ Church, Lewes
Christ Church on Prince Edwards Road, Lewes, is a mid-twentieth-century brick church housing a Local Ecumenical Partnership of United Reformed and Methodist congregations, the town's principal nonconformist place of worship.
- Location
- Lewes, Sussex
- Country
- England
- County
- Sussex
- City / town
- Lewes
- Address
- Prince Edwards Road, Lewes, Sussex, BN7 1BL
- Postcode
- BN7 1BL
- Built
- 1954; hall added 2002–03
- Denomination
- Local Ecumenical Partnership
- Dedication
- Christ
- Parish
- Christ Church Lewes (Local Ecumenical Partnership)
- Style
- Mid-20th-century brick church
- Grid reference
- TQ 406 103
- Opening hours
- We are not normally open to the public outside worship times, but visits can be arranged by emailing us.
- Access
- Ramp or level access available on request. Accessible toilets in church
Overview
The church's own history records that Congregationalists from the Tabernacle on Cliffe High Street, opened in 1816, sold that building when the congregation became too small to sustain it and used the proceeds to build a modern church on the edge of the Nevill and Wallands housing in 1954. The rose window of the Good Shepherd from the 1901 Tabernacle Sunday School in Railway Lane was reset in the apse. The building was registered for worship and marriages in July 1955 as Lewes Congregational Church, became Lewes United Reformed Church at the 1972 union, and on 20 June 1999 was reconstituted as Christ Church, a Local Ecumenical Partnership with the Mid-Sussex Methodist Circuit after Methodists left Station Street.
A major refurbishment in 2002–03 added a new hall used by the community. The building is not on the National Heritage List for England. Visits outside worship can be arranged through the church.