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Brighton new guide or, a description of Brighthelmston, and the adjacent country; with an account of the following places: East Bourn, Lewes, Newhaven, Shoreham, Rottendean, Worthing, Arundel, Seaford, Steyning, Preston, &c. &c. &c, edited by Frederick George Fisher, published 1800 (124 pp., London: T. Burton) accessible at: British Library   View Online

Parliamentary History - Steyning, by William Durrant Cooper, published 1835 in The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex (appendix III, article, pp.56-58) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2397][Lib 3212] & The Keep [LIB/507380][Lib/500088] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Borough of Steyning, by Thomas Walker Horsfield, published 1835 in The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex (vol. II, rape of Bramber, pp.227-229) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2397][Lib 3212] & The Keep [LIB/507380][Lib/500088] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Notice of the Early History of Steyning and its Church, by Rev. Thomas Medland, published 1852 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 5, article, pp.111-126) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2090] & The Keep [LIB/500224] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Extracts from the Steyning Church-Book, by Rev. T. Medland, published 1856 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 8, article, pp.132-140) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2093] & The Keep [LIB/500227] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Sele Priory, and some Notice of the Carmelite Friars at New Shoreham, and the Secular Canons at Steyning, by Rev. Edward Turner, published 1858 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 10, article, pp.100-128) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2095] & The Keep [LIB/500229] & S.A.S. library   View Online

St. Cuthman, by Mark Antony Lower, published 1865 in The Worthies of Sussex (pp.23-26) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 3208][Lib 3233][Lib 3304] & The Keep [LIB/503515][LIB/504913]

An account of the hoard of Anglo-Saxon coins found at Chancton Farm, Sussex, by Barclay Vincent Head, published 1867 in Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Numismatic Society (New series, vol. 7, article, pp.63-126)   View Online

Steyning, by Mark Antony Lower, M.A., published 1870 in A Compendious History of Sussex, Topographical, Archaeological & Anecdotal (vol. II, pp.176-180, Lewes: George P. Bacon) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8946][Lib 3315] & The Keep [LIB/500158]   View Online

Steyning and West Grinstead Churches, and the Ancient Castle of Knepp, by Rev. Edward Turner, published 1870 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 22, article, pp.1-21) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2017] & The Keep [LIB/500240] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Ordnance Survey Book of Reference to the plan of the Parish of Upper Beeding and the Parish of Henfield and the Parish of Steyning, published 1874 (article, London: H.M.S.O. & printed at George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode)   View Online

Ordnance Survey Book of Reference to the plan of the Parish of Steyning, published 1876 (article, London: H.M.S.O. & printed at George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode)

Genealogical Memoranda relating to the Family of White, of Horsham, Steyning, Shipley, and Cowfold, Co Sussex, of Mitcham, Croydon and Reigate, Co Surrey, and of London, with Pedigree, by Robert Garraway Rice, published 1886 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 34, article, pp.127-166) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2119] & The Keep [LIB/500252] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Pedigree and Genealogical Memoranda Relating to the Family of Pellatt, of Steyning, etc, by Maberly Phillips, published 1892 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 38, article, pp.99-128) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2123] & The Keep [LIB/500256] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Pedigree and Genealogical Memoranda Relating to the Family of Pellatt, of Steyning, etc, concluded, by Maberly Phillips, published 1894 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 39, article, pp.55-93) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2124] & The Keep [LIB/500257] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Steyning Marriages, etc, during the Commonwealth, 1653 to 1658, by William Powell Breach, published 1899 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 42, article, pp.111-116) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2127] & The Keep [LIB/500260] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Wm Holland, Alderman of Chichester, and the Steyning Grammar School, by William Powell Breach, published 1900 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 43, article, pp.59-83) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2128] & The Keep [LIB/500261] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Steyning and Bramber, by E. V. Lucas with illustrations by Frederick L. Griggs, published 1904 in Highways and Byways in Sussex (Chapter XV, London: Macmillan & Co.) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 41][Lib 12792][Lib 15825] & The Keep [LIB/500142]   View Online

Alien houses: Collegiate church of Steyning, 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.121-122, 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

Leedes of Wappingthorne, by Miss Eleanor Lloyd, published 1911 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 54, article, pp.37-54) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2139] & The Keep [LIB/500272] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Steyning, Sussex. The History of Steyning and its Church from 700-1913, with illustrations and portraits, by Anna Maria Butler, published 1913 (136 pp., Croydon: W. D. Hayward) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2821][Lib 6726] & British Library & West Sussex Libraries

Notes on an Ancient House at Steyning, by W. Powell Breach, published 1914 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 56, article, pp.192-193) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2141] & The Keep [LIB/500274] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Steyning Church, Sussex, by Philip M. Johnston, F.S.A., F.R.I.B.A., published December 1914 in Journal of the British Archaeological Association (second series, vol. 20, issue 4, article, pp.275-284)   View Online

Steyning Church, by Philip M. Johnston, F.S.A., F.R.I.B.A., published 1915 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 57, article, pp.149-161) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2142] & The Keep [LIB/500275] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Farnefold of Steyning, by William Powell Breach, published 1918 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 59, article, pp.84-112) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2144] & The Keep [LIB/500277] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The Collegiate Church of St Andrew, Steyning, by Ernest W. Cox, published 1920 (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 4944][Lib 4943][Lib 4942]

Steyning Old Water-Mill. The Home of a New Industry, by R. Thurston Hopkins, published 1927 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. I no. 1, article, pp.36-37) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2303][Lib 8326] & The Keep [LIB/500137]

Rambles in Sussex, No 4. Steyning, Chanctonbury, Findon, Cissbury and Park Brow, by C. Beckwith, published 1927 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. I no. 9, article, pp.392-393) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2303][Lib 8326] & The Keep [LIB/500137]

Steyning Church, by S.C.M. Contributor(s), published 1927 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. I no. 12, article, p.515) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2303][Lib 8326] & The Keep [LIB/500137]

The Story of the Sanctuary, by Vera G. Pragnell, published 1928 (Steyning: Vine Press) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Sussex in the Past, in and around Steyning, by Viscountess Wolseley, published 1928 (London: The Medici Society) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/500161] & West Sussex Libraries

Lady Wolseley loves Sussex ardently, and above all things, she desires others to love it too. Her pen runs eloquently, inspired by a single-hearted joy in the beauty of all she sees and the message of human interest which it brings to her. If the book before us needs an excuse, it is sufficient that it can hardly fail to communicate the enthusiasm of its author to those who turn its pages.
Sussex in the Past would be more correctly described as a journey of archaeological discovery through the Hundred of Steyning. Lady Wolseley takes us through the villages and into the ancient houses of the lovely valley of the Adur and discourses of those who dwelt and worked therein in days when this part of the country was full of life and business. The quietude of rural beauty and the evidences of former activity mingle in these chapters as in a tapestry where threads of every colour unite in harmony. If it is beyond the power of the author to make archaeology easy, she has at any rate charged it with an aesthetic quality which should lure many readers to follow her path of enquiry and ultimate discovery.
In her pilgrimage Lady Wolseley has certainly succeeded in weaving, as she sets out to do, " a sort of story that will carry us down the centuries and unite one circle of past generations with another." She disarms criticism by a modest disavowal of authoritative knowledge, yet her reading is wide and her care in quoting her sources is exemplary. In her mission as an interpreter of the charm that lies in the study of topography she has a gentle rebuke for the philistine when she notes that " the critical faculty is far more strongly developed in fellow archaeologists than the appreciative one."
It is a tragic fact that without appreciation of its true content and of its beauty, all knowledge is empty and vain. Lady Wolseley's most happy contribution to the study of archaeology is her insistence that our aim must be a realisation of the beauty of human life and the natural scene in which our lives are cast. Mr. Garnet Wolseley's happy sketches in colour emphasize this message, and the type and format of the book support it by their excellence. Such consistency is too rare.
There is one thing that would help the author to fill the outlines of her canvas with even greater human interest and that is to question the ancient houses more closely and elicit their architectural secrets. One suspects, for instance, that Maudlin Farm may have been a structural part of the mediaeval hospital of St. Mary Magdalene at Bidlington of which the Victoria County History has so interesting an account. Lady Wolseley tracks the hospital down to the year 1553 and picks up the history of the house in 1565. What if this were the very " Maladria in Bidelington " to which (as Miss Rotha Clay tell us) the heir of Nicholas de Malesmeins was taken in 1220, after his perplexed guardian had brought him before the barons of the king's exchequer? Stones and timber are as closely writ with history as any document, and in them we may have the key to a fuller understanding of the lives that have passed before our time.

Historic Houses of Sussex - Peppers, by Viscountess Wolseley, published 1928 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. II no. 8, article, pp.342-346) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9327] & The Keep [LIB/500138]

Courtyards of Old Sussex Inns, by Maud Teevan, published 1928 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. II no. 8, article, pp.350-351) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9327] & The Keep [LIB/500138]

Two Sussex Hand Presses, by Joan Firmin, published 1928 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. II no. 10, article, pp.470-471) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9327] & The Keep [LIB/500138]

Some Old-Time Fairs, by Maude Robinson, published 1929 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. III no. 8, article, pp.558-559) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2307] & The Keep [LIB/500140]

The Sanctuary, by David McLean, published 1929 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. III no. 12, article, pp.832-833) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2307] & The Keep [LIB/500140]

An Old Pack Road at Steyning, by H. C. Evans, published February 1929 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. II no. 5, note, p.155) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8951] & The Keep [LIB/500204] & S.A.S. library

Steyning Church and its Tower, published 1930 (pamphlet, Steyning Church) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 6545]

Lead Fret [at Steyning], by S.N.Q. Contributor, published February 1931 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. III no. 5, note, p.162) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8952][Lib 8221] & The Keep [LIB/500205] & S.A.S. library

The Old Quaker Meeting House, Steyning, by Rev. H. E. B. Arnold, M.A., published 1932 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VI no. 8, article, pp.500-504) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9325] & The Keep [LIB/500175]

St Cuthman, What is known of him? , by Rev. Ernest W. Cox, M.A., published August 1933 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. IV no. 7, article, pp.204-207) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2203][Lib 8222][Lib 8861] & The Keep [LIB/500206] & S.A.S. library

Sussex Church Plans XXII: St Andrew, Steyning , by Walter H. Godfrey, published August 1933 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. IV no. 7, article, pp.210-212) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2203][Lib 8222][Lib 8861] & The Keep [LIB/500206] & S.A.S. library

The Steyning Preservation Society, by Philip Gosse, published 1934 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VIII no. 4, article, pp.264-266) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9329] & The Keep [LIB/500177]

Steyning Grammar School, by S. E. Winbolt, published 1934 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VIII no. 5, article, pp.319-324) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9329] & The Keep [LIB/500177]

Finds [at Steyning], by E. F. Salmon, published August 1934 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. V no. 3, note, pp.92-93) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2204][Lib 8223][Lib 8862] & The Keep [LIB/500207] & S.A.S. library

Recent Finds [at Lewes and Steyning], by Editor, published November 1934 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. V no. 4, note, pp.123-124) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2204][Lib 8223][Lib 8862] & The Keep [LIB/500207] & S.A.S. library

A Tour of the Sussex Downs: Arundel to Steyning, by John Frobisher, published 1936 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. X no. 9, article, pp.628-630) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2315][Lib 9331] & The Keep [LIB/500181]

Steyning Fire Stone (ref: S.N.Q. vi, p.61), by W. Hooper, published February 1937 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VI no. 5, reply, p.158) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12537][Lib 8863][Lib 8224] & The Keep [LIB/500208] & S.A.S. library

The Steyning Stone, by Rev. Ernest W. Cox, M.A., published 1938 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. XII no. 11, article, pp.707-710) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2317] & The Keep [LIB/500183]

The Steyning Grave Slab, by Unknown, published May 1941 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VIII no. 6, article, pp.169-170) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8865][Lib 2207] & The Keep [LIB/500210] & S.A.S. library

In and Around Steyning: An Historical Survey made in 1953, by Frank Duke and Ernest W. Cox, published 1954 accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2845] & West Sussex Libraries

A by-election in a rotten borough, by Robert G. Schafer, published August 1954 in Huntington Library Quarterly (vol. 17, no. 4, article, pp.397-405)

Steyning.

Chantry Green House, Steyning, by Owners Mr and Mrs G H Recknell, published 1957 (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 5294]

A Late Bronze Age urnfield on Steyning Round Hill, Sussex, by G. P. Burstow, published December 1958 in The Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society (vol. 24, article, pp.158-164)   View Online

In the autumn of 1949 when ploughing was taking place on a south-eastern spur of Steyning Round Hill (Map Ref. 51/166099), fig. 1, two schoolboys D. Atkinson and M. J. Manetta found the remains of nine Late Bronze Age urns with cremated bones just under the surface of the plough soil. They lay in a circular area roughly 30 feet in diameter covered with large flints. Most of these urns were wisely left in situ until the Steyning Grammar School Archaeological Society under the direction of the Headmaster, Mr J. Scragg, and Mr W. Gardiner, assisted by Messrs N. E. S. Norris, G. Mason, and the writer, members of the Brighton and Hove Archaeological Society, undertook a methodical exploration. Our grateful thanks should be recorded to the farmer, Capt J. T. Mackley, who permitted the excavation and to all who helped in the work and dealt with the finds, as well as to Mr D. C. Tutt for kindly drawing the plan and pottery.

Guide to the Church of St Andrew, Steyning, by Francis W. Steer, published 1960 (pamphlet, Steyning Parochial Church Council) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 6308] & West Sussex Libraries

Some Early References to the Abbot of Fécamp's Hunting Rights in Sussex, by J. L. M. Gulley, published November 1961 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XV no. 8, article, pp.266-269) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8233] & The Keep [LIB/500217] & S.A.S. library

Gatewick, Steyning, Sussex, by Clifford Musgrave, published 1965 (pamphlet, London: Faber and Faber) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9539] & West Sussex Libraries

Steyning,Sussex: History and descriptive survey, by George Hugh Recknell, published 1965 (booklet, 31 pp., Steyning Society) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 4294] & West Sussex Libraries

The Collegiate Church of St Andrew, Steyning, Sussex: The New Organ, published 1968 accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 4946]

The Poor Law in the area of the Eastbourne and Steyning Poor Law Unions 1790-1840, by D. R. Parker, 1972 at Sussex University (M.A. thesis)

The timber-framed buildings of Steyning, by H. M. Lacey and U. E. Lacey, published 1974 (174 pp., published by the authors) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 3601] & R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries

Excavations 1977: Steyning, Tanyard Lane, by D. J. Freke, published August 1977 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 22, article, p.119, ISSN: 0307-2568) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF

Steyning, Bramber and Upper Beeding Local Plan, 1978-1988, published 1978 (booklet, Horsham District Council) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8588]

On the Parish: a study of 19th century Steyning Poor Law, by J. Sleight, published 1978 (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 6791]

Steyning: Official Guide, published 1979 (booklet, Steyning Parish Council) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7841]

Fifty Years of Steyning Line Memories, by B. J. Holden, published 1979 (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7110]

A History of Steyning Methodist Church, by John Norwood, published 1979 (Steyning Methodist Church Council) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10624] & West Sussex Libraries

Excavations in Tanyard Lane, Steyning, 1977, by David J. Freke, published 1979 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 117, article, pp.135-150) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7497] & The Keep [LIB/500312] & S.A.S. library

Southern History Vol 2, published 1980 (periodical) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7591]

p11-29 The Origins of Steyning and Bramber, Sussex - T P Hudson
p73-91 The Parliamentary Enclosure of West Sussex - J Chapman
p129-177 The Immediate Impact of the Second Reform Act on a Southern County Town, 1865 and 1868 - C E Brent

Steyning Conservation Area Guide: a pictorial walking trail, by Harry Fox, published 1980 (booklet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7456]

The Origins of Steyning and Bramber, Sussex, by T. P. Hudson, published 1980 in Southern History (vol. 2, article, pp.11-29) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7482] & West Sussex Libraries

Fishbones from Excavations at Tanyard Lane, Steyning 1977, by Owen Bedwin, published 1980 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 118, archaeological note, p.369) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7805] & The Keep [LIB/500305] & S.A.S. library

Parish of Steyning, by A. P. Baggs, C. R. J. Currie, C. R. Elrington, S. M. Keeling, A. M. Rowland and edited by T. P. Huson, published 1 January 1980 in A History of the County of Sussex (vol. 6, part 1: Southern part of the Rape of Bramber, pp.220-246, London: Victoria County History, ISBN-10: 0197227538 & ISBN-13: 9780197227534) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7542][Lib 7543] & The Keep [LIB/500085] & R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

Old Views of Steyning, Bramber and Beeding, by George Cockman, John Green and Stephen Harris, published 1981 (booklet, 28 pp., Steyning: Wests) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7766] & West Sussex Libraries

Eric Gill: man of flesh and spirit, by Malcolm Yorke, published 1981 (275 pp., London: Constable, ISBN-10: 0094637407 & ISBN-13: 9780094637405) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

West Sussex Settlement Certificates: 2. Steyning & 3. Storrington, by Michael J. Burchall, published March 1981 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 2 no. 4, article, pp.149-153) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8671] & The Keep [LIB/501188] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

Topographical Development of Steyning, by Tim Hudson, published April 1981 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 33, article, pp.224-225, ISSN: 0307-2568) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF

Around Steyning, published September 1981 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 3 no. 2, article, pp.54-55) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8892] & The Keep [LIB/501189] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

A Very Exceptional Instance: Three Centuries of Education in Steyning, Sussex, by J. M. Sleight, published December 1981 (104 pp., Worthing: Gadd's Printers, ISBN-10: 0950785008 & ISBN-13: 9780950785004) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7974] & West Sussex Libraries

The Poor Law in Steyning, by Joyce Sleight, published January 1982 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 21, article, p.1) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/21] & The Keep [LIB/500480]

The Poor Law in Steyning, by Joyce Sleight, published May 1982 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 22, article, p.19) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/22] & The Keep [LIB/500480]

Cuthman, Steyning and the Stone, by George Cockman, published 1983 (leaflet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8828]

More Old Views of Steyning, Bramber and Beeding, by George Cockman, published 1983 (booklet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8884][Lib 12694] & West Sussex Libraries

Memories of Steyning and Sussex, published 1985 (pamphlet, Steyning Museum Trust) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9683]

Anglo-Saxon Burials on Steyning Round Hill, by Eric W. Holden, published 1985 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 123, archaeological note, pp.259-261) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9514] & The Keep [LIB/500310] & S.A.S. library

A Stone Box and Two Pieces of Oak Found in Steyning Church, by Eric W. Holden, published 1985 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 123, archaeological note, pp.262-265) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9514] & The Keep [LIB/500310] & S.A.S. library

The Turner Family of Steyning - Seventeenth Century Clothiers of Sussex, by Janet Pennington, published June 1985 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 6 no. 6, article, pp.203-211) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9788] & The Keep [LIB/501258] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Discussion of occupation of clothier, inventories, and description of house. John Turner alias Edwards and his wife Alice had three sons, James, John and Phillip. Included is part of the inventory of Phillip Turners goods. Article covers the years 1587 - 1637 in the parish of Steyning

St Cuthman of Steyning. New Ed, A Journey through time, by Janet Pennington, published 1986 (published by the author) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

St. Cuthman of Steyning - a journey through time, by Janet Pennington, published 1986 in St. Andrews, Steyning, Parish Magazine (article, pp.15-19)

Excavations in Fletcher's Croft, Steyning, 1967-1968, by Jane Evans, published 1986 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 124, article, pp.79-96) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9762] & The Keep [LIB/500311] & S.A.S. library

Excavations at Cuthman's Field, Church Street, Steyning, 1962, by K. J. Barton, published 1986 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 124, article, pp.97-108) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9762] & The Keep [LIB/500311] & S.A.S. library

St Cuthman of Steyning, by Janet Pennington, published September 1986 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 35, article, pp.1-7) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/35] & The Keep [LIB/500481]

Furniture in Steyning, a Sussex Parish, 1587-1706: a Study of Documentary Sources, by Janet Pennington and Joyce Sleight, published 1987 in Regional Furniture (vol. 1, article, pp.41-49) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9837]

Two Flint Hand Axes from the Lower Greensand Ridge, Steyning, by John Wildman, published 1987 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 125, archaeological note, p.225) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9994] & The Keep [LIB/500304] & S.A.S. library

A New Site for Steyning's Port?, by Timothy P. Hudson, published 1987 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 125, historical note, p.252) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9994] & The Keep [LIB/500304] & S.A.S. library

No 39 High Street, Steyning, by Eric W. Holden, published 1987 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 125, historical note, pp.255-256) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9994] & The Keep [LIB/500304] & S.A.S. library

Bygone Steyning, Bramber and Beeding, by Aylwin Guilmant, published 1988 (The History Press, ISBN-10: 0850336694 & ISBN-13: 9780850336696) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10115] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Steyning, Bramber, and Beeding are now quiet backwaters. It is a large part of their present charm that they preserve much of the atmosphere of a past age. Yet, paradoxically, the three adjacent communities were relatively busier. Bustling river trade on the Adur combined with their position as centers for a thriving agricultural community, with markets, fairs, a castle, a priory, a great collegiate church and, by the 10th century, even a mint; all these made them places of importance in the Middle Ages.

St. Cuthman of Steyning - a journey through time, by Janet Pennington, published 1988 (Steyning: The Friends of St. Andrews) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Excavations at Testers, White Horse Square, Steyning, 1985, by Mark Gardiner, published 1988 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 126, article, pp.53-76) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10371] & The Keep [LIB/500303] & S.A.S. library

The Old Workhouse, Mouse Lane, Steyning, by Eric W. Holden, published 1988 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 126, historical note, p.252) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10371] & The Keep [LIB/500303] & S.A.S. library

Wiston Estate, Sussex, Crown Sequestration and its Effects 1596-1634, by Janet Pennington, published 1989 (published by the author) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Regional History (Humanities Department, Brighton Polytechnic), December 1989

Steyning Conservation Area Guide, by Harry Ford, published 1990 (pamphlet, Steyning Society) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15299] & West Sussex Libraries

A Pictorial Walking Trail

The Chequer Inn, Steyning: Five Centuries of Innkeeping in a Sussex Market Town, by Janet Pennington, published 1990 (Lancing: Lancing Press) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10665] & West Sussex Libraries

Religious Survey 1851 - Steyning district, edited by John A. Vickers, published August 1990 in The Religious Census of Sussex 1851 (Sussex Record Society, vol. 75, pp.107-117, 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

Steyning district incl. Shoreham, Hove, Preston, Patcham, West Blatchington, Hangleton, Portslade, Southwick, Kingston-by-Sea, Sompting, Coombs, Buttolphs, Upper Beeding, Edburton, Poynings, Woodmancote, Henfield, Ashurst & Shermanbury

The nave of Saint Andrew at Steyning: a study of variety in design in twelfth-century architecture in Britain, by Malcolm Thurlby and Yoshio Kusaba, published 1991 in Gesta (vol. 30, no. 2, article, pp.163-175)

An 'Image of Lust' on Steyning Church?, by Janet Pennington, published 1991 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 129, article, pp.251-252) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11694] & The Keep [LIB/500295] & S.A.S. library

The Nave of Saint Andrew at Steyning: A Study of Variety in Design in Twelfth-Century Architecture in Britain, by Malcolm Thurlby and Yoshio Kusaba, published January 1991 in Gesta (vol. 30, no. 2, article, pp.163-175)

Which Came First, the Chicken of the Egg?, by Mrs. Joan Stenning, published December 1991 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 9 no. 8, article, pp.300-301) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11999] & The Keep [LIB/501261] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The origin of the surname Stenning and the placentae Steyning.

Guide to Steyning and Bramber, published c.1992 (pamphlet, Steyning Chamber of Trade) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12217]

Excavations at Steyning New Museum, Church Street, Steyning, West Sussex 1989, by Andrew Reynolds, published 1992 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 130, article, pp.60-68) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11918] & The Keep [LIB/500289] & S.A.S. library

Steyning Town and its Trades 1559-1787, by Janet Pennington and Joyce Sleight, published 1992 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 130, article, pp.164-188) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11918] & The Keep [LIB/500289] & S.A.S. library

Steyning At War, published 1993 (Steyning Museum Trust)

St Cuthman of Steyning. New Ed, A Journey through time, by Janet Pennington, published 1993 (Steyning: Steyning Museum Trust) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

The Excavation of a Late Anglo-Saxon Settlement at Market Field, Steyning, 1988-1989, by Mark Gardiner, published 1993 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 131, article, pp.21-67) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12210] & The Keep [LIB/500300] & S.A.S. library

Archaeological Assessment of Land to the North and West of Steyning Library, Church Street, Steyning, West Sussex , by Chris Greatorex and Mark Gardiner, published 1994 accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

A late Anglo-Saxon disc brooch from Steyning, West Sussex, by Andrew Reynolds, published 1994 in Medieval Archaeology (vol. 38, article, pp.169-171)   View Online

Archaeological Excavation at Steyning Library, Church Street, Steyning, West Sussex, by Christopher Greatorex, published 1995 (South Eastern Archaeological Services) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Downs Above Steyning, by Graham Kean and Tony Ketteman, published 1995 (Steyning Museum Trust) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Steyning Town, by Janet Pennington and Joyce Sleight, published 1995 (Steyning: Steyning Museum Trust) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Archaeological excavations in Steyning, 1992-1995. Further Evidence for the Evolution of a Late Saxon Small Town, by Mark Gardiner and Chris Greatorex, published 1997 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 135, article, pp.143-172) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13642] & The Keep [LIB/500290] & S.A.S. library

Saint Cuthman, Steyning and Bosham, by John Blair, published 1997 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 135, article, pp.173-192) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13642] & The Keep [LIB/500290] & S.A.S. library

Isaac Hammond and the Steyning Riot of 1835, by Kevin Hammond, published March 1997 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 5, article, pp.193-195) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/508812] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Isaac Hammond was born in 1787 and married Tabitha Connock at Preston Plucknett in Somerset. Under Poor Law Relief he and his family were removed to Steyning in 1812. Description of events leading to the Steyning riot in 1835 and Isaac's roll in it are described for which he was imprisoned at Petworth for three months.

West Sussex Walks: Arundel, Steyning and Worthing Area, by Sandy Hernu, published April 1997 (80 pp., Seaford: S. B. Publications, ISBN-10: 1857701259 & ISBN-13: 9781857701258) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Steyning - 18c. Schools, edited by John Caffyn, published 1998 in Sussex Schools in the 18th Century (Sussex Record Society, vol. 81, pp.243-246, ISBN-10: 0854450424 & ISBN-13: 9780854450428) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13825][Lib 13828] & The Keep [LIB/500458][Lib/507864] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Dog Lane, Steyning, by Janet Pennington, published 2000 in Locus Focus, forum of the Sussex Place-Names Net, 4, no. 1 (article, pp.24-25, University of Sussex)

New evidence for Saxo-Norman settlement at Chantry Green House, Steyning, West Sussex, 1989, by Maureen Bennell, published 2000 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 138, shorter article, pp.225-231) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14509] & The Keep [LIB/500298] & S.A.S. library   View Online

St Cuthman's book?, by Janet Pennington, published 2000 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 138, shorter article, p.231) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14509] & The Keep [LIB/500298] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Finding a Steyning Family, by T. J. Betterton, published September 2000 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 14 no. 3, article, pp.112-113) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14881] & The Keep [LIB/508823] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Edward Read Holmes (1799-1866), the son of Frances Holmes, married Jane Woodward in 1834 and had eight children

The Steyning Line and Its Closure, by James Buckman, published 2002 (104 pp., 62 photos & 4 maps, Seaford: S. B. Publications, ISBN-10: 1857702549 & ISBN-13: 9781857702545) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The Men who Built the Steyning Line, by John Townsend, published Spring 2003 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 71, article, p.35) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/71] & The Keep [LIB/500495]

Steyning, Historic Character Assessment Report, compiled by Roland B. Harris, published August 2004 (Sussex Extensive Urban Survey (EUS), 45 pp. + appendices, E.S.C.C., W.S.C.C. & Brighton and Hove City, funded by English Heritage) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries   Download PDF

Aunt Lizzie's Story - a description of Annington, Kingston Buci and Steyning in the nineteenth Century, by Janet Pennington and W. A. Heasman, published Autumn 2004 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 73, article, pp.32-37) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/73] & The Keep [LIB/500497]

The market-houses of Steyning, by Janet Pennington, published 2006 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 144, article, pp.169-176) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15759] & The Keep [LIB/500362] & S.A.S. library   View Online

For some time Steyning's missing market-house posed a problem: it seemed strange that a town with a market history that reached back before the Norman Conquest had no apparent trace, in physical or documentary terms, of the centrally-placed market hall so typical of other English towns. A Catalogue of the Horsham Museum Mss., however, intriguingly contained a reference to late-eighteenth-century papers containing 'much detail about Steyning Town Hall'. Since a Town Hall at 38 High Street was built in 1886, in the late-nineteenth century it was not clear what this other building could be. Thus Steyning's 'lost' market-house or 'Town Hall' was revealed. Anna Butler had referred to it briefly in her book on Steyning published c. 1913 with no sources listed, but her statement had later been discounted as an error.

Steyning Scandals: Secrets of a Sussex Market Town, 1547-1947, by Janet Pennington, published 2007 (Seaford: S. B. Publications, ISBN-10: 0955570301 & ISBN-13: 9780955570308) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

An early fifteenth-century barn at Charlton Court, Steyning, West Sussex, by Fred Aldsworth, published 2007 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 145, article, pp.153-179) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15980] & The Keep [LIB/500363] & S.A.S. library   View Online

A programme of archaeological recording, historical research, and dendrochronological dating, undertaken during a programme of major repairs in 1993-94, demonstrated that the barn at Charlton Court, Steyning, was erected from trees that had mostly been felled in the winter of AD 1404-05, shortly after the manor had passed into private hands in 1403, and it is likely that the barn was prefabricated from green timbers during the summer of 1405 through to the spring of 1406.
Originally designed as a three-bay unaisled barn, with canopied porches to the central bay, it has a surviving roof frame comprising kingposts carrying a ridge plate, supported by heavy downswing braces which carry side purlins trenched into their upper edges.
It was never completed and used in its intended form, though the frame appears to have been erected and the rafters added, and it was altered and extended at either end, using timber from the original stock felled in the winter of AD 1404-05. The original roof design was maintained, but aisles were added in a form entirely typical of later medieval barns of south-east England, with large shoring braces passing between the arcade posts and soleplates, halved into spurs which tie the side wall plates into the main posts.
A number of subsequent alterations and repairs are discernible and at a date probably in the eighteenth century, masonry walls were inserted at the south end.
A series of dendrochronological samples, mostly with at least 150 growth rings and complete sapwood, provide a very accurate basis for dating, and these are fully discussed.

An archaeological excavation at Steyning Museum, Church Street, Steyning, West Sussex, by Christopher Greatorex, published 2008 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 146, article, pp.95-106) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15997] & The Keep [LIB/500364] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Seventeen medieval features were recorded during an excavation undertaken at Steyning Museum, Church Street, Steyning, West Sussex. These discoveries included part of a tenement boundary, pits and three possible post-holes dating to the twelfth to early/mid-thirteenth century. A single shallow scoop of mid-thirteenth- to mid-fourteenth-century origin was also investigated. The range of recovered artefacts/ecofacts (pottery, burnt clay, metalwork, animal bone and marine shell) is indicative of general waste derived from a relatively low-status family group or smallholding utilizing mainly local resources. This project has contributed to the detailed understanding of Steyning's early development and confirmed the archaeological potential of the immediate area.

Steyning Compilation: From Street Directories Between 1839-1938, by R. A. Longley, published 1 August 2008 (CD-ROM, published by the author, ISBN-10: 1906505470 & ISBN-13: 9781906505479)

Steyning Scandals: Secrets of a Sussex Market Town, 1547-1947, by Janet Pennington, published 2009 (revised edition, 79 pp., published by the author, ISBN-10: 095557031X & ISBN-13: 9780955570315) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

The title of this book beckons the reader to turn the pages in anticipation of what these Steyning scandals could possibly be and which Janet Pennington has so thoroughly researched.
It is the sort of book that anyone who enjoys exploring villages should have on their bookshelf to take with them on a walking trail and use to guide them round the historic town of Steyning. The trail that the author describes is fascinating, visiting all the haunts of various past scandals associated with the residents. If we think certain areas of Brighton should be avoided in 2010 then think again - with accounts of fights, stabbings and murder taking place in a quiet little Sussex town in the past, we are protected by police patrols and really shouldn't worry!
The illustrations of landmarks with graphic accounts of the scandal or event that took place there are interesting and sometimes amusing, some of which nowadays would (as the author points out) probably not cause more than a short prison sentence or a ripple in a local newspaper, especially with changing moral and other values. As she says, if readers feel that research on accidental death, adultery, assault, bestiality, black magic, drunkenness, imprisonment, libel, martyrdom, references to sexuality of whatever kind, smuggling and suicide will be upsetting, then do not turn the pages!
I did, however, and found a comprehensive index and a bibliography of sources used, and really enjoyed reading the case histories, personally hoping to find some scandal on my ancestors who lived in Steyning between 1882 to about 1912 but found nothing - they must have been 'squeaky clean'!
I cannot complete this review without recommending a visit to the excellent Steyning Museum where documents and books referred to in the book can be found, as well as many interesting exhibits of life in Steyning.

Turnpikes to Steyning, Henfield and Shoreham, by Brian Austen, published 2010 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 40, article, pp.24-39, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506537]   Download PDF

The connection of Horsham to London by turnpike in 1755 made the produce of the area accessible to the growing market of an expanding capital city, increasing not only the prosperity of the farming community but also of the landowners and the region at large.

Steyning Bench Update, by Janet Pennington, published December 2011 in Sussex Past & Present (no. 125, article, p.16, ISSN: 1357-7417) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/500475] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The Chalet, Wickham Close, Steyning (NGR: TQ17831113) - watching brief report, by Felicity Howell, published June 2013 (Reading: Thames Valley Archaeological Services)   View Online

An Interesting and Descriptive Guide to Steyning, Bramber, Beeding, Wiston, Ashurst and District, published (no date) (booklet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 4312]

The Collegiate Church of St Andrew, Steyning, published (no date) (pamphlet, St Andrew Steyning) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 5019]

Steyning Parish Register, published (no date) by the Sussex Family History Group and Parish Register Transcription Society (Ref: SXW114, CD-ROM)

Baptisms, Marriages and Burials 1565-1900, Banns 1653-1658, 1754-1823, 1885-1901. Indexed Transcription. Includes 15 photographs. Vol.114.

Adur Valley and Brighton & Hove - Monumental Inscriptions, published (no date) by Sussex Family History Group (Ref: C008, CD-ROM)

Aldrington, Botolphs, Brighton (9), Coombes, Edburton, Kingston Buci, Lancing, Hangleton (2), Hove (2), Newtimber, Patcham, Poynings, Pycombe, Old Shoreham, Southwick (5), Steyning (4),West Blatchington, and Wiston,