I found this place while ago didn’t found Access at time I found the Access I jump over a wall it was struggle it was not easy.
History
The site of St Anne’s School forms part of what was originally a 30-acre tract of land called The Hides, sloping down from the ridge carrying Western Road to the course of the Winterbourne Stream.
On 12 August 1834 the first stone was laid, in the south-east angle of the building, ‘by the rector, and his wife but by the 1850s three of the four strips of the land to the west of the house became the site for Lewes Cemetery, and in 1882 the remaining strip was added to the Rectory’s land. The house remained the rectory for less than a century; on 8 May 1920 it was sold, with the permission of the patrons, the bishop of Lewes and the archbishop of Canterbury, to John Henry Every, owner of the Phoenix Ironworks and the so-called King of Lewes.
On 20 September 1955 John Every’s grandson sold the house and land to the County Council ‘as a site for a school for educationally sub-normal children and a site for rebuilding Southover Church of England School’. The building was restored and expanded between 1958 and 1960, and in that year St Anne’s Special School, which had been established in De Montford Road in 1951, moved to Rotten Row. The school closed at the end of the Summer term of 2005.
Explore was amazing I got on top of the roof
Those photos I took in there.
History
The site of St Anne’s School forms part of what was originally a 30-acre tract of land called The Hides, sloping down from the ridge carrying Western Road to the course of the Winterbourne Stream.
On 12 August 1834 the first stone was laid, in the south-east angle of the building, ‘by the rector, and his wife but by the 1850s three of the four strips of the land to the west of the house became the site for Lewes Cemetery, and in 1882 the remaining strip was added to the Rectory’s land. The house remained the rectory for less than a century; on 8 May 1920 it was sold, with the permission of the patrons, the bishop of Lewes and the archbishop of Canterbury, to John Henry Every, owner of the Phoenix Ironworks and the so-called King of Lewes.
On 20 September 1955 John Every’s grandson sold the house and land to the County Council ‘as a site for a school for educationally sub-normal children and a site for rebuilding Southover Church of England School’. The building was restored and expanded between 1958 and 1960, and in that year St Anne’s Special School, which had been established in De Montford Road in 1951, moved to Rotten Row. The school closed at the end of the Summer term of 2005.
Explore was amazing I got on top of the roof
Those photos I took in there.
