Sedlescombe
| Sedlescombe | |
| Sussex | |
|---|---|
 St John the Baptist parish church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ781180 |
| Location: | 50°55’48"N, 0°31’48"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 1,476 (2011) |
| Post town: | Battle |
| Postcode: | TN33 |
| Dialling code: | 01424 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Rother |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Bexhill and Battle |
| Website: | Sedlescombe Parish Council |
Sedlescombe is a village in Sussex. The village is on the B2244 road, about six miles north of Hastings. The parish includes the hamlet of Kent Street, which is on the A21 road.
The River Brede and its tributary the River Line flow through the village, and the Powdermill Reservoir is on the parish's eastern boundary. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 1,476.
Manor
In the reign of Edward the Confessor (1042–66) Godgifu was overlord of the manor of Sedlescombe. Her Lord of the manor was a Saxon called Leofsi,[1] who also held a manor at Marden in Sussex. The Domesday Book records that by 1086 the Norman nobleman Robert, Count of Eu held the manor of Sedlescombe. His tenant-in-chief was one Walter, son of Lambert,[1] who also held manors at Crowhurst, Hazelhurst and Ripe. The village name seems to derive from Old English 'setl' meaning a seat or residence, and 'comb' meaning valley or low place[2][3]
Manor Cottages in The Street are a 15th-century timber-framed building with a 16th-century extension. They were built as a single manor house but later divided into five cottages. They are a Grade I listed building.[4]
Durhamford Manor in Stream Lane is an early 16th-century timber-framed house.[5]
Churches
- Church of England: St John the Baptist
- United Reformed Church: Sedlescombe United Reformed Church
St John the Baptist has a 15th-century Perpendicular Gothic nave, north aisle and west tower. The present chancel, south aisle and south porch were added in 1866–74 as part of a restoration by Norman and Billing. The chancel's north and south windows have stained glass made by Charles Eamer Kempe in 1890.[6] The building is Grade II* listed.[7]
The west tower has a ring of six bells. Robert Mot of Houndsditch and Whitechapel cast the tenor bell in 1592. Joseph Carter of Whitechapel cast the fifth bell in 1606 and the second, third and fourth bells in 1607. Mears & Stainbank of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry cast the treble bell in 1929.[8]
About the village
Asselton House in The Street is a 15th-century timber-framed house. Its northwest wing was added in the 19th century.[9]
Pestalozzi International Village is an educational charity founded in 1946.[10] In 1959 it moved to Oaklands, a Tudor Revival house in Sedlescombe. A Warden's House and International House were designed for it by Hugh Casson and Neville Conder and built in the grounds.[6]
Sedlescombe has a 15th-century pub, the Queen's Head Inn,[11] that is now a gastropub.[12] There is also a hotel and a bed and breakfast guest house.
The village has a post office and general store[13] and a Church of England primary school.[14]
Just outside the village is Sedlescombe Golf Club,[15] which includes the James Andrews School of Golf.[16]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Sedlescombe) |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sedlescombe in the Domesday Book
- ↑ [1] VillageNet Kent & Sussex Village name Derivations
- ↑ [2] Old English Translator
- ↑ National Heritage List 1274791: Manor Cottages (Grade I listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1222027: Durhamford Manor (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Nairn & Pevsner 1965, p. 604.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1275087: The Parish Church of St John the Baptist (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ Rix, Geoff (23 August 2011). "Sedlescombe: S John Bapt". Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers. http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/detail.php?searchString=Sedlescombe&Submit=+Go+&DoveID=SEDLESCOMB.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1222076: Asselton House (Grade II listing)
- ↑ Pestalozzi
- ↑ National Heritage List 1222072: The Queen's Head Inn (Grade II listing)
- ↑ The Queens Head
- ↑ Sedlescombe Post Office and Store
- ↑ Sedlescombe CE Primary School
- ↑ Sedlescombe Golf Club
- ↑ The James Andrews School of Golf
- Lewis, Samuel: 'A Topographical Dictionary of England' (S. Lewis and Co., 1848) pp44–48 ISBN 978-0-8063-1508-9
- Lucey, Beryl (1999). Twenty Centuries in Sedlescombe: An East Sussex Parish. Sedlescombe: Asselton Books. ISBN 978-0953469505. https://archive.org/details/twentycenturiesi0000luce.
- Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Sussex, 1965 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09677-4page 604
