Menu
Home
People
Places
Arts
History
Plants & Animals
Science
Life & Culture
Technology
Reference.org
Sedlescombe
open-in-new
<h2 id="manor">Manor</h2> <p>In the reign of <a href="/facts/Edward_the_Confessor/SaEt0hp9">Edward the Confessor</a> (1042–66) <a href="/facts/Godgifu,_daughter_of_%C3%86thelred_the_Unready/U7t3UzCX">Countess Godgifu</a> was <a href="/facts/Lord/kPuPQpUb">overlord</a> of the <a href="/facts/Manorialism/bvqYxBcJ">manor</a> of Sedlescombe. Her <a href="/facts/Lord_of_the_manor/HMcc2nJX">Lord of the manor</a> was a Saxon called Leofsi,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> who also held a manor at <a href="/facts/Marden,_West_Sussex/WW8T6eva">Marden</a> in what is now <a href="/facts/West_Sussex/3bWeEvee">West Sussex</a>. The <a href="/facts/Domesday_Book/zTlp51pg">Domesday Book</a> of 1086 records that, by that date, the Norman nobleman <a href="/facts/Robert,_Count_of_Eu/UKkp0C2j">Robert</a>, <a href="/facts/Counts_of_Eu/Wy5vMPTB">Count of Eu</a> held the manor of Sedlescombe. His <a href="/facts/Tenant-in-chief/EoCM3R7g">tenant-in-chief</a> was one Walter, son of Lambert,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> who also held manors at <a href="/facts/Crowhurst,_East_Sussex/hmfUf2cf">Crowhurst</a>, <a href="/facts/Ticehurst/RoUTUDnA">Hazelhurst</a> and <a href="/facts/Chalvington_with_Ripe/H9yq4CCL">Ripe</a>. The village name seems to derive from <a href="/facts/Old_English/9rsmQG2a">Old English</a> 'setl' meaning a seat or residence, and 'comb' meaning valley or low place.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="notable-buildings">Notable buildings</h2> <h3>Manor houses</h3> <p>Manor Cottages in The Street is a 15th-century <a href="/facts/Timber_framing/XN7NyKbo">timber-framed</a> building with a 16th-century extension. It was built as a single <a href="/facts/Manor_house/9jNlcART">manor house</a> but was later divided into five cottages. It was a <a href="/facts/Listed_building/PPx6CnfU">Grade I listed building</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p><p>Durhamford Manor in Stream Lane is an early 16th-century timber-framed house. It is a <a href="/facts/Listed_building/PPx6CnfU">Grade II* listed building</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> </p> <h3>Churches</h3> <p>St John's parish is now part of the <a href="/facts/Benefice/HvthX7N8">Benefice</a> of Sedlescombe with <a href="/facts/Whatlington/CoIN2JKF">Whatlington</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> The <a href="/facts/Church_of_England_parish_church/p4BVsftg">Church of England parish church</a> of St <a href="/facts/John_the_Baptist/l7K55gq7">John the Baptist</a> has a 15th-century <a href="/facts/Perpendicular_Gothic/cWSMh62l">Perpendicular Gothic</a> <a href="/facts/Nave/F1U8RApb">nave</a>, north <a href="/facts/Aisle/awQvhgHS">aisle</a> and west tower. The present <a href="/facts/Chancel/nFQAFrzK">chancel</a>, south aisle and south porch were added in 1866–74 as part of a <a href="/facts/Victorian_restoration/dHXkYmEQ">restoration</a> by Norman and Billing. The chancel's north and south windows have stained glass made by <a href="/facts/Charles_Eamer_Kempe/avtTgton">CE Kempe</a> in 1890.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> The building is Grade II* listed.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> </p><p>The west tower has a <a href="/facts/Change_ringing/CThHh91h">ring</a> of six bells. Robert Mot of <a href="/facts/Houndsditch/347QzUa6">Houndsditch</a> and <a href="/facts/Whitechapel/bQQNaal9">Whitechapel</a> 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 <a href="/facts/Whitechapel_Bell_Foundry/1uYq99A1">Whitechapel Bell Foundry</a> cast the treble bell in 1929.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a> </p> <p>There is also a <a href="/facts/United_Reformed_Church/AqjoQd5k">United Reformed Church</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a> </p> <h3>Other</h3> <p>Asselton House in The Street is a 15th-century timber-framed house. Its northwest wing was added in the 19th century.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a> </p><p><a href="/facts/Pestalozzi_International_Village/4Gh0oTvH">Pestalozzi International Village</a>, named after the Swiss philanthropist <a href="/facts/Johann_Heinrich_Pestalozzi/VLjPQCBb">Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi</a>, is an educational charity founded in 1946.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a> In 1959 it moved to Oaklands, a <a href="/facts/Tudor_Revival_architecture/MuPUfA2I">Tudor Revival</a> house in Sedlescombe. A Warden's House and International House were designed for it by <a href="/facts/Hugh_Casson/BkakQnRt">Hugh Casson</a> and Neville Conder.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="amenities">Amenities</h2> <p>Sedlescombe has a 15th-century <a href="/facts/Pub/1vDaSw0H">pub</a>, the Queen's Head Inn,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a> that is now a <a href="/facts/Gastropub/sqzEgHcp">gastropub</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17"><sup>17</sup></a> There is also a hotel<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18"><sup>18</sup></a> and a <a href="/facts/Bed_and_breakfast/Uj8Xhx7E">bed and breakfast</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19"><sup>19</sup></a> </p><p>The village has a post office and <a href="/facts/General_store/DcLwFgmx">general store</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20"><sup>20</sup></a> and a Church of England primary school.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21"><sup>21</sup></a> </p><p>Just outside the village is Sedlescombe Golf Club,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:22" href="#fn:22"><sup>22</sup></a> which hosts the James Andrews School of Golf.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:23" href="#fn:23"><sup>23</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="notable-people">Notable people</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Frederick_Hyland/huXKJxvR">Frederick Hyland</a> (1893–1964), first-class cricketer</li></ul> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Sedlescombe_vineyard/7PFrBHnV">Sedlescombe vineyard</a></li></ul> <h2 id="sources-and-further-reading">Sources and further reading</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Samuel_Lewis_(publisher)/HNTbTWzu">Lewis, Samuel</a>, ed. (1931) [1848]. <a href="http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-dict/england/pp44-48"><i>A Topographical Dictionary of England</i></a> (Seventh ed.). London: <a href="/facts/Samuel_Lewis_(publisher)/HNTbTWzu">Samuel Lewis</a>. pp. 44–48.</li> <li>Lucey, Beryl (1984). <i>A Village Where The World is One: The Story of the International Children's Village in England</i>. London: Regency Press.</li> <li>Lucey, Beryl (1999). <a href="https://archive.org/details/twentycenturiesi0000luce"><i>Twenty Centuries in Sedlescombe: An East Sussex Parish</i></a>. Sedlescombe: Asselton Books. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0953469505.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Ian_Nairn/6kbdB8oP">Nairn, Ian</a>; <a href="/facts/Nikolaus_Pevsner/lgISoPyl">Pevsner, Nikolaus</a> (1965). <i>Sussex</i>. <a href="/facts/Pevsner_Architectural_Guides/Debumppo">The Buildings of England</a>. Harmondsworth: <a href="/facts/Penguin_Books/Q2ETlwbp">Penguin Books</a>. p. 604. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0-14-071028-0.</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sedlescombe. <ul><li><a href="http://www.sedlescombe.org.uk/">Sedlescombe Parish Council</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Area: Sedlescombe (Parish): Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 31 August 2015. <a href="http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11128298&c=Sedlescombe&d=16&e=62&g=6421511&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1441025249320&enc=1" target="_blank">http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11128298&c=Sedlescombe&d=16&e=62&g=6421511&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1441025249320&enc=1</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Sedlescombe in the Domesday Book. Retrieved 1 September 2015. <a href="https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ7718/sedlescombe/" target="_blank">https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ7718/sedlescombe/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Sedlescombe in the Domesday Book. Retrieved 1 September 2015. <a href="https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ7718/sedlescombe/" target="_blank">https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ7718/sedlescombe/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>[1] VillageNet Kent & Sussex Village name Derivations <a href="https://villagenet.co.uk/namederivation10.php" target="_blank">https://villagenet.co.uk/namederivation10.php</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>[2] Old English Translator <a href="https://www.oldenglishtranslator.co.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.oldenglishtranslator.co.uk/</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Historic England. "Manor Cottages (Grade I) (1274791)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 31 August 2015. <a href="/wiki/Historic_England" target="_blank">/wiki/Historic_England</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Historic England. "Durhamford Manor (Grade II*) (1222027)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 31 August 2015. <a href="/wiki/Historic_England" target="_blank">/wiki/Historic_England</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Archbishops' Council. "Benefice of Sedlescombe with Whatlington". A Church Near You. Church of England. Retrieved 31 August 2015. <a href="/wiki/Archbishops%27_Council" target="_blank">/wiki/Archbishops%27_Council</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Nairn & Pevsner 1965, p. 604. - Nairn, Ian; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1965). Sussex. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 604. ISBN 0-14-071028-0. <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Historic England. "The Parish Church of St John the Baptist (Grade II*) (1275087)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 31 August 2015. <a href="/wiki/Historic_England" target="_blank">/wiki/Historic_England</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>Rix, Geoff (23 August 2011). "Sedlescombe: S John Bapt". Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers. Retrieved 31 August 2015. <a href="http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/detail.php?searchString=Sedlescombe&Submit=+Go+&DoveID=SEDLESCOMB" target="_blank">http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/detail.php?searchString=Sedlescombe&Submit=+Go+&DoveID=SEDLESCOMB</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>"United Reformed Church Directory". United Reformed Church. Retrieved 31 August 2015. <a href="http://directory.urc.org.uk/11-southern-synod/5812-sedlescombe.html" target="_blank">http://directory.urc.org.uk/11-southern-synod/5812-sedlescombe.html</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>Historic England. "Asselton House (Grade II) (1222076)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 31 August 2015. <a href="/wiki/Historic_England" target="_blank">/wiki/Historic_England</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:14"><p>Pestalozzi <a href="http://www.pestalozzi.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.pestalozzi.org.uk/</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:15"><p>Nairn & Pevsner 1965, p. 604. - Nairn, Ian; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1965). Sussex. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 604. ISBN 0-14-071028-0. <a href="#fnref:15" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:16"><p>Historic England. "The Queen's Head Inn (Grade II) (1222072)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 31 August 2015. <a href="/wiki/Historic_England" target="_blank">/wiki/Historic_England</a> <a href="#fnref:16" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:17"><p>The Queens Head <a href="http://www.thequeensheadsedlescombe.com/" target="_blank">http://www.thequeensheadsedlescombe.com/</a> <a href="#fnref:17" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:18"><p>The Brickwall Hotel Battle <a href="http://www.brickwallhotel.com/" target="_blank">http://www.brickwallhotel.com/</a> <a href="#fnref:18" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:19"><p>Kester House Bed & Breakfast <a href="http://www.kesterhouse.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.kesterhouse.co.uk/</a> <a href="#fnref:19" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:20"><p>Sedlescombe Post Office and Store <a href="http://www.sedlescombestores.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.sedlescombestores.co.uk/</a> <a href="#fnref:20" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:21"><p>Sedlescombe CE Primary School <a href="http://www.sedlescombecep.e-sussex.sch.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.sedlescombecep.e-sussex.sch.uk/</a> <a href="#fnref:21" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:22"><p>Sedlescombe Golf Club <a href="http://www.sedlescombegolfclub.co.uk" target="_blank">http://www.sedlescombegolfclub.co.uk</a> <a href="#fnref:22" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:23"><p>The James Andrews School of Golf <a href="http://www.Jamesandrewsgolfschool.co.uk" target="_blank">http://www.Jamesandrewsgolfschool.co.uk</a> <a href="#fnref:23" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>