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Parish of Hardham, by Thomas Walker Horsfield, published 1835 in The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex (vol. II, rape of Arundel, pp.152-153) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2397][Lib 3212] & The Keep [LIB/507380][Lib/500088] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The Priory of Pynham or De Calceto; with some Notices of the Priories of Tortington, Hardham and Leveminster, by Rev. Edward Turner, M.A., published 1859 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 11, article, pp.89-120) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2096] & The Keep [LIB/500230] & S.A.S. library   View Online

On a Romano-British Cemetery and a Roman Camp, at Hardham in West Sussex, by W. Boyd Dawkins, B.A., F.G.S., published 1864 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 16, article, pp.53-64) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2101] & The Keep [LIB/500235] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Hardham Priory of Canons of St Augustine, by Gordon M. Hills, published 1866 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 18, article, pp.54-59) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2103] & The Keep [LIB/500237] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Hardham, by Mark Antony Lower, M.A., published 1870 in A Compendious History of Sussex, Topographical, Archaeological & Anecdotal (vol. I, pp.209-211, Lewes: George P. Bacon) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8946][Lib 3314] & The Keep [LIB/500159]   View Online

Hardham Priory, Sussex, by R. Garraway Rice, F.S.A., published 1898 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 41, notes & queries, pp.241-242) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2126] & The Keep [LIB/500259] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The Paintings in Hardham Church, published 1899 (article, West Sussex Gazette) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 5378]

Hardham Church, and its early Paintings, by Philip Mainwaring Johnston, published 1901 in The Archaeological Journal (vol. 58, article, pp.62-92)   View Online

Hardham Church, and its early Paintings, by Philip Mainwaring Johnston, published 1901 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 44, article, pp.73-115) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2129] & The Keep [LIB/500262] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Houses of Augustinian canons: Priory of Hardham, by William Page, F.S.A., published 1907 in The Victoria History of the County of Sussex (vol. 2: Ecclesiastical, Maritime, Social and Economic History, Population 1801-1901, Industries, Agriculture, Forestry, Architecture, Schools and Sport, pp.74-75, London: Victoria County History, ISBN-10: 0712905863 & ISBN-13: 9780712905862) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2399][Lib 9097] & The Keep [LIB/500090][LIB/504899] & R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

On a Wall-painting till recently at Hardham Priory, Sussex, by C. J. Praetorius, published 1913 in Archaeologia; or Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity (vol. 64, article, pp.453-454)   View Online

Hardham Priory, Pulborough, Sussex, the property of Lord Charles Beresford, was destroyed by fire on May 16, 1912. A wooden beam in the brickwork of a modern chimney was the cause of the outbreak, by which the farmhouse was entirely destroyed.

Discovery of Wall Paintings at Hardham Priory, by Philip M. Johnston, F.S.A., F.R.I.B.A., published 1916 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 58, article, pp.1-5) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2143] & The Keep [LIB/500276] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The Story of Roman Sussex II - Stane Street, by S. E. Winbolt, M.A., published 1928 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. II no. 6, article, pp.242-247) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9327] & The Keep [LIB/500138]

Along the Roman Road. 3 - Bignor to Oakwood Hill, by F. J. Bulstrode, published 1929 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. III no. 9, article, pp.653-659) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2307] & The Keep [LIB/500140]

The Chancel Arch of Hardham Church, by E. Towry Whyte, published February 1929 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. II no. 5, note, pp.158-159) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8951] & The Keep [LIB/500204] & S.A.S. library

The Chancel Arch of Hardham Church, by Philip Mainwaring Johnston, F.S.A., F.R.I.B.A., published May 1929 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. II no. 6, note, pp.177-178) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8951] & The Keep [LIB/500204] & S.A.S. library

Roman Burial Urn from Hardham Camp, by S. E. Winbolt, published February 1937 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VI no. 5, note, pp.155-156) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12537][Lib 8863][Lib 8224] & The Keep [LIB/500208] & S.A.S. library

Hardham Causeway, by G. D. Johnston, published November 1942 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. IX no. 4, article, pp.83-86) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8227][Lib 2208] & The Keep [LIB/500211] & S.A.S. library

Hardham Causeway, by S. E. Winbolt, published February 1943 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. IX no. 5, note, pp.116-117) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8227][Lib 2208] & The Keep [LIB/500211] & S.A.S. library

Twelfth century paintings at Hardham and Clayton, by Clive Bell and photographed by Hemut Gernsheim, published 1947 (20 pp. & 40 leaves of plates, Lewes: Miller's Press) accessible at: R.I.B.A. Library & East Sussex Libraries

The Meeting of Rother and Arun, by G. D. Johnston, published May 1953 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIII nos. 13 & 14, article, pp.272-275) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8231] & The Keep [LIB/500215] & S.A.S. library

Romanesque wall paintings of Hardham church, Sussex, with reference to those in the other churches of the 'Lewes Group', by W. D. Park, 1975 at Manchester University (M.A. thesis)

Lagoon Recharge of the Folkestone Beds at Hardham, Sussex -- 1972-75, by D. Izatt, G.B. Fox and M. Tague, published 1979 in Journal of the Institution of Water Engineers and Scientists (vol. 33, no. 3, article)

Medieval Fiddles at Hardham, by Jacqueline Wiltshire, published 1981 (article) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9314]

Hardham Church, near Pulborough, by F. G. Aldsworth, published December 1981 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 35, article, pp.253-254, ISSN: 0307-2568) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF

Investigations at Hardham Church 1978 and 1981, by F. G. Aldsworth and James Hadfield, published 1982 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 120, archaeological note, pp.222-228) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8620] & The Keep [LIB/500307] & S.A.S. library

The Lewes Group of Wall Paintings in Sussex, by David Park, published 1984 (offprint) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9093]

Clayton, Coombes, Hardham, Plumpton and Westmeston

Borehole recharge of the Folkestone beds at Hardham, Sussex, 1980-81, by M.J. O'Shea, published 1984 in Journal of the Institution of Water Engineers and Scientists (vol. 38, no. 1, article, pp.9-24)

The Wall Paintings at Hardham, by Christopher Aggs and John Wyatt, published 1987 (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9823] & West Sussex Libraries

Religious Survey 1851 - Thakeham district, edited by John A. Vickers, published August 1990 in The Religious Census of Sussex 1851 (Sussex Record Society, vol. 75, pp.129-134, ISBN-10: 085445036X & ISBN-13: 9780854450367) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10578][Lib 13824] & The Keep [LIB/500452][LIB/507827] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Thakeham district incl. Pulborough, Stopham, Coldwaltham, Hardham, West Chiltington, Washington, Parham, Storrington, Sullington, Thakeham, Warminghurst, Ashington, Wiston & Findon

Adam and Eve and the Lord God: The Adam and Eve Cycle of Wall Paintings in the Church of Hardham, Sussex, by Audrey M. Baker, published 1998 in The Archaeological Journal (vol. 155, article, pp.207-225)   View Online

The church at Hardham is a small simple building constructed of sandstone and ironstone rubble interspersed with Roman tiles; originally it was whitewashed. It was built without a tower, but a bell turret was added in Victorian times. There are no features which prove that it was built before the Conquest, but three of the deeply-splayed windows are primitive; one of them has a rebate on the outside for a shutter. Other windows were cut later, the earliest being a double lancet behind the altar which dates from the thirteenth century. The church consists of a nave, 9.6 m x 5.8 m (31 ft 6 in x 19 ft), and chancel, 5.2 m x 4.7 m (17 ft x 15 ft 6 in). The insertion of the lancet window has destroyed the centrepiece of the decorative scheme of paintings which extended over both parts of the church and formed an integrated whole (Johnston 1901a, 74; 1901b, 62; Milner Gulland 1985, 27, 43; Baker 1986, 49-49). In both nave and chancel the theme of the decoration is the contrast between good and evil. Thus, in the nave the Sacrificial Lamb with angels waving censers is placed over the chancel arch and is confronted by a representation of the damned in hell which faces it on the west wall. In the chancel, Christ seated in Majesty, adored by Cherubim and the Elders of the Apocalypse, was painted on the east wall and faced a representation of the Fall of Man and the history of Adam and Eve on the east face of the chancel arch. This scheme interprets the words of St Paul, As in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive' (I Corinthians xv, v 22). The central part of this composition was destroyed by the insertion of the thirteenth-century window. The theological idea that sin was brought into the world by the disobedience of Adam and Eve, and could only be expunged by the Life and Passion of Christ, is often illustrated in the Middle Ages. This, for instance, is the theme of the illustrations in the St Albans Psalter, which was produced during the first half of the twelfth century (Dodwell et al. 1960, 49; see especially Pacht 1962, 49-53).

The Arun Navigation and Hardham Canal Tunnel, by P. A. L. Vine, published 2011 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 41, article, pp.2-14, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/41] & The Keep [LIB/506538]   Download PDF

The River Arun has for centuries been the most important of the Sussex waterways. There seems little doubt that the river was partly navigable at the time of the Norman Conquest. While authorities are at variance upon whether Arundel boasted any river traffic before this date, the town is referred to as a port in Domesday Book time ('portum aquae et consuetudinem navium'). It is reported by various chroniclers that in about 1070, Roger de Montgomery, a Norman nobleman, created Earl of Arundel by William I for his help at Hastings, imported small square blocks of Caen stone from Normandy for refacing the castle keep. Hadrian Allcroft presents a strong case for accepting Ford as the then port of Arundel, since the tide probably flowed no higher than this point before 1300 and the crossing-point would have hindered the passage of boats which were heavily laden. Furthermore, the river would at that time have flowed an inconvenient half a mile east of where Arundel Bridge now stands.

Hardham: Its History & Its Church, published (no date) (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 6324]

Hardham: its history and its church, published (no date) (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 4261]

Hardham Parish Register, published (no date) by the Sussex Family History Group and Parish Register Transcription Society (Ref: SXW161, CD-ROM)

Baptisms 1584-1908, Marriages 1584-1641 1689-1902, Burials 1584-1640 1661-1901. Indexed Transcription. Vol.161. Includes 41 photographs.