Lewes House

Lewes was pretty empty as the spaniel and I had a wild and windy Sunday morning walk. This is another entry for my blind windows of Lewes collection. Lewes House, the building on the right, has at least three blind windows visible from the narrow pedestrian alleyway known as Church Twitten (it runs from the High Street steeply down to All Saints Church). This Georgian house was once owned by the American art collector Edward Perry Warren who commissioned Auguste Rodin to sculpt a copy of 'Le Baiser' (better known perhaps as 'The Kiss') which caused uproar in Lewes when it was displayed in the Town Hall in 1915 before being covered up and, after two years, returned to Lewes House as 'unsuitable'.