Publications
Chichester Cathedral and Thomas Weelkes, by Wyn K. Ford, published 1962 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 100, article, pp.156-172) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11489] & The Keep [LIB/500329] & S.A.S. library
Music in England before 1800: A Select Bibliography, by Wyn K. Ford, published 1967 (Library Association)
Deposition Books of the Ecclesiastical Courts: An Unusual Genealogical Source, by W. K. Ford, published September 1973 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 1 no. 2, article, pp.28-30) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7965] & The Keep [LIB/501253] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
The Occupants of Boltro Farm, Cuckfield, by Wyn K. Ford, published December 1975 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 2 no. 3, article, pp.74-76) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7966] & The Keep [LIB/501254] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Boltro Farm, Cuckfield, by Wyn K. Ford, published 1976 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 114, article, pp.81-96) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 6476] & The Keep [LIB/500315] & S.A.S. library
The Reverend Joseph Dale and the Extension of Bolney Church, by Wyn K. Ford, published 1978 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 116, shorter notice, pp.401-402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7197] & The Keep [LIB/500313] & S.A.S. library
The Metropolis of Mid Sussex: A history of Haywards Heath, by Wyn K. Ford and A. C. Gabe, published June 1981 (200 pp., Haywards Heath: Charles Clarke, ISBN-10: 0950248940 & ISBN-13: 9780950248943) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7753][Lib 15138] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
The Ordeal of Joan Acton, by Wyn K. Ford, published 1984 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 122, article, pp.127-138) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9140] & The Keep [LIB/500309] & S.A.S. library
A Note on the Families of Acton of Ripe and Lulham of Hamsey, by Wyn K. Ford, published December 1984 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 6 no. 4, article, pp.137-139) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9788] & The Keep [LIB/501258] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
The Story of the Hayward's Heath Building Society, 1890-1990, by Wyn K. Ford, published 1990 (Hayward's Heath Building Society) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/504754] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
The First Forty Years. Early Mortgages and Mortgagors of the Haywards Heath Building Society, by Wyn K. Ford, published 1992 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 130, article, pp.213-231) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11918] & The Keep [LIB/500289] & S.A.S. library
The Church in Sussex Road: the story of a Methodist church in Haywards Heath, by Wyn K. Ford, published 1994 accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502790] & West Sussex Libraries
Chichester Diocesan Surveys, 1686 and 1724, edited by Wyn K. Ford, published December 1994 (vol. 78, 309 pp., Sussex Record Society, ISBN-10: 0854450394 & ISBN-13: 9780854450398) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12188][Lib 13829] & The Keep [LIB/500455][Lib/507861] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries View Online
Abstract:Churches were not always regarded with the respect that we usually give them today, and from bishops' surveys of their dioceses we can learn a great deal about the treatment of parish churches in the past, and the attitudes that prevailed to their furniture and fittings.
Thomas Bowers's survey of the Chichester diocese has been cited and studied on a number of occasions in the past, but this is the first time that an edition of the entire record has been published. The work was out carried parish by parish in the summer of 1724, shortly before the bishop's death. The enquiries were unusually wide ranging. Not only do they provide a detailed picture of each building and its fittings; but they also cover such topics as the population of the parish, the strength of Nonconformity and Roman Catholicism, and provide details of patronage and parochial charities. In this edition this information has been amplified in the notes and in a substantial critical introduction; and missing information has been gathered from other sources, such as Archbishop Wake's 1717 visitation of Sussex parishes outside the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Chichester, and from the recently discovered diocesan valuation carried out in 1725 at the instigation of Bishop Waddington, Bowers's successor. Further information on Nonconformity is provided by the inclusion of the important Evans List of 1717. To extend the picture into the previous century, the volume also includes a survey from 1686 and 1687, which gives extensive information on the fabric and fittings of the parish churches throughout the diocese.
Overall, the volume describes the state of an eighteenth century diocese in a depth and comprehensiveness that will be hard to match elsewhere-and which helps us to understand the widespread rebuilding of churches a century later. It will be an indispensable source for anyone studying the history of a Sussex parish, and equally essential for students of the architectural, religious, demographic and social history of the county.
Thomas Bowers's survey of the Chichester diocese has been cited and studied on a number of occasions in the past, but this is the first time that an edition of the entire record has been published. The work was out carried parish by parish in the summer of 1724, shortly before the bishop's death. The enquiries were unusually wide ranging. Not only do they provide a detailed picture of each building and its fittings; but they also cover such topics as the population of the parish, the strength of Nonconformity and Roman Catholicism, and provide details of patronage and parochial charities. In this edition this information has been amplified in the notes and in a substantial critical introduction; and missing information has been gathered from other sources, such as Archbishop Wake's 1717 visitation of Sussex parishes outside the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Chichester, and from the recently discovered diocesan valuation carried out in 1725 at the instigation of Bishop Waddington, Bowers's successor. Further information on Nonconformity is provided by the inclusion of the important Evans List of 1717. To extend the picture into the previous century, the volume also includes a survey from 1686 and 1687, which gives extensive information on the fabric and fittings of the parish churches throughout the diocese.
Overall, the volume describes the state of an eighteenth century diocese in a depth and comprehensiveness that will be hard to match elsewhere-and which helps us to understand the widespread rebuilding of churches a century later. It will be an indispensable source for anyone studying the history of a Sussex parish, and equally essential for students of the architectural, religious, demographic and social history of the county.
The Story of Haywards Heath, by Wyn Ford and Lillian Rogers, published 1 July 1998 (120 pp., Seaford: S. B. Publications, ISBN-10: 1857701410 & ISBN-13: 9781857701418) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14888] & The Keep [LIB/503836] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries