Category: Talks & Events

Lewes Priory – Guided Tour, Saturday 28th September 2024

Guided walking tour of one of England’s largest and most successful monasteries

Saturday 28 September

Over 450 years, between c.1080 and 1538, Lewes Priory became the richest religious house in Sussex and the most important of the English Cluniac foundations – in architecture, influence, art and learning. This tour brings to life the splendour and colour of the Priory as we walk through the remains of its massive buildings – plus the rare opportunity to see inside the Gundrada Chapel at Southover Church.

Assemble at 2.30pm prompt:
Trinity Church, Southover, Southover High Street,
Lewes BN7 1JH.

Tour duration:
Approx 2 hours. Sturdy walking shoes advised. Wheelchair access on paved slopes. No public toilets. Bring umbrella if wet. Dogs on leads.

BOOKING ESSENTIAL
£10 (£8 for members of Lewes Priory Trust) 
Sorry, no refunds, all income to Lewes Priory Trust.

Buy in person or by phone
with credit/ debit card:

Lewes Tourist Information Centre
187 High Street, Lewes, BN7 2DE
6 High Street, Lewes, BN7 2AD – (Temporary Location)

Tel 01273 483 448

Celebrating 30Years of the European Federation of Cluniac Sites

https://lewespriory.org.uk/?location_id=313&item=528

 

 

 

 

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A Summer with Swifts, Swallows and Martins. Zoom Talk on Wed 13 November 2024 at 7.30 pm by Paul Stevens.

An overview of the four summer visitors, their identification, nesting biology and conservation.

Paul Stevens is a respected ecologist, specialising in Swifts and hirundines and advising on handcrafting and supplying house martin nest cups around the UK.  He will outline how the natural world functions in relation to habitat management especially the chalk downland, wildflower meadows and wetland ecosystems.

Friends of Lewes Members free, Non members £4 (Via Ticket Source)

Lewes S.T.E.M Festival 16th -17th November 2024

LEWES SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING & MATHEMATICS FESTIVAL 2024

The centrepiece of the Lewes STEM Festival, the STEM Fair will include exhibits contributed by the Universities (Brighton and Sussex), companies, charities, and other organisations.  Last year’s STEM fair included over 30 different exhibits and welcomed more than 1100 visitors.

Saturday 16th November – Lewes STEM Speakers Symposium

Sunday 17th November – Lewes STEM Fair

Please click on the link below for details

https://curiositysussex.github.io/lewes/24.html

Climate Change: Implications for Coastal & Fluvial flooding in Lewes and the lower Ouse valley – 19 June

Wednesday 19 June 2024, 7.30 pm, Council Chamber, First floor, Lewes Town Hall, High Street entrance (Disabled entrance & lift on Fisher Street) – John Gower, Friends of Lewes

A recording of this talk is now available to view on YouTube.

Climate change is bringing increasing rainfall and building development is paving over green surfaces causing more and faster runoff which makes its way into our streams and rivers.  Sea levels are rising and the landmass of the South of England is sinking by 1.5mm a year. All this combines to increase flood risk to Lewes and the lower Ouse valley.

John Gower, the Flood Lead for the Friends of Lewes, will be giving a talk on the 19 June on Climate change: implications for coastal & fluvial flooding in Lewes and the lower Ouse valley.

John has recently retired after a lifelong career as an environmental scientist and climate change/ flood risk manager with the Environment Agency.  John will explain the risks around ever-increasing flood risks, what we can do to mitigate these and how we will need to adapt in the future.

This talk is free for Friends of Lewes. Non-members can pay £4.00 on the door to attend or join here.

See the Diary page for a list of forthcoming events organised by the Friends of Lewes

Seaford Head Great storm of 1987, source: Environment Agency
Lewes October 2000, source: Environment Agency

FoL AGM & Talk: Retrofitting in Lewes – 24 April 2024

Wednesday 24 April 2024, Lewes Town Hall, Fisher Street entrance

Chris Rowlands and Nicki Myers of Ovesco

How can Lewes to reduce energy costs and carbon emissions, especially in conservation areas? Community Energy Company Ovesco (Ouse Valley Climate Action) is helping residents with advice to generate energy and become more energy efficient. OVESCO knows that more homes are installing PV, heat pumps, batteries and EV charging points. But local energy generation needs to be delivered with energy efficiency for a low carbon future and this requires existing homes to retrofit. The solutions can be complex especially in a conservation area where we need to protect the character of Lewes as well as the environment. The need to work together to find affordable solutions for everyone has never been more important as we adapt to climate change.

Find out more from OVESCO and Sussex based installers OHM Energy (represented by Jason Lindfeld and Courtney Frazer-Bates) with sustainable buildings expert Suzy Nelson, architect Ian MacKay from Deeper Green.

The talk and panel discussion will start at around 8.15pm, following the Friends of Lewes AGM which begins at 7.30 pm. The AGM is for members-only but non-members can attend the talk by paying £4 on the door.