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Warnings of the Eternal Spirit, to the Priest and People of Chichester, by Mary Turner, Anne Topham and Anna Maria King, published 1709 (London)

Ecclesiastical Divisions, by N/K, published 1835 in The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex (appendix IV, article, pp.76-77) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2397][Lib 3212] & The Keep [LIB/507380][Lib/500088] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Ecclesiastical history, by Thomas Walker Horsfield, published 1835 in The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex (vol. I, chapter IV section III, article, pp.99-101) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2396][Lib 3211] & The Keep [LIB/507380][Lib/500087] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Report of the Brighton Protestant Defence Committee, published 1852 (11 pp., Brighton) accessible at: British Library

Report of the Proceedings of the Brighton Protestant Defence Committee, from January, 1851 to December, 1853, containing their memorial to the Bishop of Chichester on the Romanizing practices of the incumbent of St. Paul's, Brighton [i.e. William Gresley], etc., published 1854 (22 pp., Brighton) accessible at: British Library

Sussex Crusaders, by W. S. Ellis, published 1857 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 9, notes & queries, pp.364-365) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2094] & The Keep [LIB/500228] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Sabbath-breakers in Brighton. A correspondence between Rev. R. Ainslie & Rev. E. Clay, by Robert Ainslie, Independent Minister, published 1861 (20 pp., London: Judd & Glass) accessible at: British Library

Sortain of Brighton: a review of his life and ministry, by Benjamin Samuel Hollis, published 1861 (London, Clapham) accessible at: British Library

Joseph Sortain (1809-60) was the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion minister at North Street chapel, Brighton, from 1832

Intolerance in the Rural Districts of West Sussex, by John Sirgood, published 1861 (pamphlet, published by the author) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9008] & West Sussex Libraries

A Lawyer's Notice to a Shoemaker to Discontinue Religious Worship in his Dwelling House. The Shoemaker's Reply, with a Few Incidents Connected Therewith.

Sir Thomas Heneage's Prayer-book, by Thomas Dicker, published 1861 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 13, notes & queries, pp.313-315) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2098] & The Keep [LIB/500232] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The Confessional: disgraceful to Brighton and ruinous to England … what it is, by Paul Foskett, published 1865 (32 pp., Brighton: Edward Verrall) accessible at: British Library

Saint Wilfred, The Apostle of Sussex, by Mark Antony Lower, published 1865 in The Worthies of Sussex (pp.207-209) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 3208][Lib 3233][Lib 3304] & The Keep [LIB/503515][LIB/504913]

Oratories, by E. T. [Edward Turner], published 1865 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 17, notes & queries, p.249) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2102] & The Keep [LIB/500236] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Burial in Woollen, by P. de Putron, published 1866 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 18, notes & queries, pp.190-193) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2103] & The Keep [LIB/500237] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Early Position of Altars, by S. E. [Samuel Evershed], published 1868 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 20, notes & queries, pp.231-232) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2105] & The Keep [LIB/507132] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Peculiars of the Archbishop of Canterbury, by Mark Antony Lower, M.A., published 1870 in A Compendious History of Sussex, Topographical, Archaeological & Anecdotal (vol. II, p.81, Lewes: George P. Bacon) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8946][Lib 3315] & The Keep [LIB/500158]   View Online

St Wilfrith's Life In Sussex, and the Introduction of Christianity, by Frederick E. Sawyer, published 1883 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 33, article, pp.101-128) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2118] & The Keep [LIB/500251] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Admissions to Sussex Benefices, temp Commonwealth, by the Commissioners for the Approbation of Public Preachers, by Edwin H. W. Dunkin, published 1883 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 33, article, pp.213-224) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2118] & The Keep [LIB/500251] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Sussex 'Malignant Priests', by Frederick E. Sawyer, published 1883 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 33, notes & queries, p.269) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2118] & The Keep [LIB/500251] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The Peculiarities of the Sussex Parish Churches, by E. P. Loftus Brock, F.S.A., published March 1886 in Journal of the British Archaeological Association (first series, vol 42, issue 1, article, pp.35-45)   View Online

Account of the Existing Cartularies of Religious Houses in Sussex, Particularly that of the Priory of Lewes, by Richard Sims, published December 1886 in Journal of the British Archaeological Association (first series, vol 42, issue 4, article, pp.355-368)   View Online

The Ecclesiastical History of Brighton, Hove and Preston, by Frederick E. Sawyer, published 1887 (Brighton: D. B. Friend) accessible at: British Library

Crown Presentations to Sussex Benefices, temp Charles I, by Frederick E. Sawyer, published 1887 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 35, article, pp.179-188) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2120] & The Keep [LIB/500253] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Proceedings of the Committee of Plundered Ministers relating to Sussex, by Frederick E. Sawyer, published 1888 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 36, article, pp.136-159) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2121] & The Keep [LIB/500254] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The Papal "Bulla" Found at Lewes, by Canon J. H. Cooper, published 1898 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 41, notes & queries, p.241) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2126] & The Keep [LIB/500259] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Chichester Diocese Clergy Lists; or, Clergy Succession from the earliest time to the year 1900, compiled by Rev. G. Hennesey, published 1900 (London: The St Peter's Press, Muswell Hill) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 3242][Lib 5561][Lib 8198]

A Religious Census of Sussex In 1676, by Rev. Canon J. H. Cooper, Vicar of Cuckfield, published 1902 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 45, article, pp.142-148) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2130] & The Keep [LIB/500263] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The Victoria History of the County of Sussex, edited by William Page, F.S.A., published 1907 (vol. 2: Ecclesiastical, Maritime, Social and Economic History, Population 1801-1901, Industries, Agriculture, Forestry, Architecture, Schools and Sport, xv + 481 pp. (facsimile edition published 1973), 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

Religious Houses: Introduction, 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.45-47, 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

The Story of an Old Meeting House [Westgate Chapel], by J. M. Connell, published 1916 (x + 125 pp., Longmans, Green & Co.) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Necrology, published 1917 in Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association (vol. 16, article, pp.276-292)   View Online

Obituary of Robert Henry Belcher (born 1846) who became Rector of St Michael in Lewes in 1896.

The Life and Work of St Wilfred of Ripon, Apostle of Sussex. A Lecture delivered in the Church of St Wilfrid, Hambrook, Sussex, by J. S. Fletcher, published 1925 (63 pp., Chichester: E. H. Thompson) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Fuller Lib 104] & West Sussex Libraries

Church life in Sussex, by Robert Amor Waters, published 1925 (27 pp., Brighton: S.P.) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

A Sentence of Ex-Communication, by W. H. Hills, published May 1926 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. I no. 2, note, p.51) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8950] & The Keep [LIB/500203] & S.A.S. library

An Ecclesiological Puzzle , by Ernest F. Salmon, published November 1926 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. I no. 4, note, pp.122-123) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8950] & The Keep [LIB/500203] & S.A.S. library

Sussex house of the "Friars of the Sack" , by Leopold A. Vidler, published November 1927 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. I no. 8, article, pp.242-243) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8950] & The Keep [LIB/500203] & S.A.S. library

An "Extra-Parochial Parish", by W. D. P. [W. D. Peckham], published May 1930 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. III no. 2, reply, p.63) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8952][Lib 8221] & The Keep [LIB/500205] & S.A.S. library

Sussex and Religious Drama, by L. B. Smith, published 1931 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. V no. 1, article, pp.53-56) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2310] & The Keep [LIB/500174]

Ecclesiastical Costume on Brasses, by E. Malin White, published 1931 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. V no. 8, article, pp.545-549) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2310] & The Keep [LIB/500174]

The Cokelers: A Sussex Sect, by Earl Winterton, published 1931 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. V no. 11, article, pp.717-722) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2310] & The Keep [LIB/500174]

Religious Drama in Sussex, by E. Martin Browne, published 1931 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. V no. 12, article, pp.817-820) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2310] & The Keep [LIB/500174]

Sussex Lands held by English Religious Houses situated outside the County, by Alice Maud Tudor, published August 1931 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. III no. 7, article, pp.215-218) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8952][Lib 8221] & The Keep [LIB/500205] & S.A.S. library

The life and work of Nathaniel Woodard, with special reference to the influence of the Oxford movement on English education in the 19th century, by R. Perry, 1932 at Bristol University (M.A. thesis)

Saint Wilfrid in Sussex, by Harold Van Tromp, published 1932 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VI no. 12, article, pp.812-816) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9325] & The Keep [LIB/500175]

The Anglican Revival in Sussex, by Caroline M. Duncan-Jones, published 1933 (pamphlet, Chichester Diocesan Oxford Movement Centenary Committee) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12376][Lib 6026][Lib 2825] & West Sussex Libraries

The Oxford Movement in Sussex, by John Playford, published 1933 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VII no. 7, article, pp.426-429) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2312] & The Keep [LIB/500176]

Priests Hanged on their own Steeples , by Henry Bateson, published May 1933 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. IV no. 6, query, p.188) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2203][Lib 8222][Lib 8861] & The Keep [LIB/500206] & S.A.S. library

Sussex Lands held by English Religious Houses situated outside the County IV. The Advowson of Lancing held by Mottenden, Kent, by M. S. H. [Mary S. Holgate], published November 1933 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. IV no. 8, article, pp.235-236) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2203][Lib 8222][Lib 8861] & The Keep [LIB/500206] & S.A.S. library

Men of Sussex: Half-Forgotten Worthies. 6 - William Huntington, S.S., by Raymond H. Belton, published 1934 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VIII no. 6, article, pp.386-388) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9329] & The Keep [LIB/500177]

Intruders and Informers: A Sketch of the 'Black Bartholomew' in Sussex, by K. B. Bamfield, published 1934 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VIII no. 12, article, pp.766-770) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9329] & The Keep [LIB/500178]

Martyrs of Jesus: The Story of the Sussex Martyrs of the Reformation, by Edward T. Stoneham, published 1935 (56 pp., Protestant Reformation Society) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502439] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

J. B. L. Jellicoe: Priest; Destroyer of Slums, by Gilbert Pass, published 1935 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IX no. 10, article, pp.634-636) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9330] & The Keep [LIB/500180]

Alien Incumbents, 1377, by A. Harvey Jones, published February 1935 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. V no. 5, article, pp.131-133) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2204][Lib 8223][Lib 8862] & The Keep [LIB/500207] & S.A.S. library

Sussex Lands held by English Religious Houses situated outside the County V. Land Held by Reigate Priory at Southwick, by M. S. H. [Mary S. Holgate], published May 1935 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. V no. 6, article, pp.176-177) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2204][Lib 8223][Lib 8862] & The Keep [LIB/500207] & S.A.S. library

Some Sussex Hymnologists: Three Centuries of Sacred Songs, by S. J. Turner, published 1936 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. X no. 6, article, pp.412-414) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2315][Lib 9331] & The Keep [LIB/500181]

Curate, by W. D. P. [W. D. Peckham], published May 1937 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VI no. 6, reply, p.190) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12537][Lib 8863][Lib 8224] & The Keep [LIB/500208] & S.A.S. library

Curate (ref. p.190), by Laurence F. Field, published August 1937 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VI no. 7, reply, pp.222-223) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12537][Lib 8863][Lib 8224] & The Keep [LIB/500208] & S.A.S. library

An Old Sussex Bible, by Leslie S. Wood, published 1938 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. XII no. 6, article, pp.376-379) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2317] & The Keep [LIB/500183]

Ecclesioclasm in West Sussex, by Edward Heron-Allen, F.R.S. and Harriet K. James, published 1938 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. XII no. 12, article, pp.822-830) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2317] & The Keep [LIB/500183]

Controversial Medals of the Reformation, by Sidney Spokes, published May 1938 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VII no. 2, article, pp.51-52) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12536][Lib 8864][Lib 2206] & The Keep [LIB/500209] & S.A.S. library

Antagonism to Religious Houses at Winchelsea, by W. Maclean Homan, published May 1938 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VII no. 2, note, pp.56-57) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12536][Lib 8864][Lib 2206] & The Keep [LIB/500209] & S.A.S. library

Antagonism to Religious Houses, by Walter H. Godfrey, published November 1938 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VII no. 4, reply, p.126) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12536][Lib 8864][Lib 2206] & The Keep [LIB/500209] & S.A.S. library

Sussex Clergy in Exeter Diocesan Registers, by Rev. A. C. Crookshank, published May 1939 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VII no. 6, article, pp.169-171) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12536][Lib 8864][Lib 2206] & The Keep [LIB/500209] & S.A.S. library

Sussex Excommunicates, by L. F. Salzman, F.S.A., published 1941 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 82, article, pp.124-127) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2167] & The Keep [LIB/500347] & S.A.S. library

Hennessy's Clergy List, by W. D. Peckham, published May 1941 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VIII no. 6, article, pp.170-172) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8865][Lib 2207] & The Keep [LIB/500210] & S.A.S. library

Wills of Sussex Clergy, by Rev. A. c. Crookshank, published August 1941 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VIII no. 7, article, pp.198-201) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8865][Lib 2207] & The Keep [LIB/500210] & S.A.S. library

George Keith, 1638-1716, by Ethyn Williams Kirby, published 1942 (177 pp., New York: American Historical Assocation) accessible at: British Library

George Keith served as rector of St Andrews, Edburton from 1705 until his death on 27 March 1716

Wills of Sussex Clergy, by Rev. A. c. Crookshank, published February 1942 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. IX no. 1, article, pp.15-16) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8227][Lib 2208] & The Keep [LIB/500211] & S.A.S. library

Wills of Sussex Clergy, by Rev. A. C. Crookshank, published May 1942 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. IX no. 2, article, pp.42-43) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8227][Lib 2208] & The Keep [LIB/500211] & S.A.S. library

Photographs of Sussex Churches, by Hugh Lewen, published August 1942 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. IX no. 3, article, pp.61-62) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8227][Lib 2208] & The Keep [LIB/500211] & S.A.S. library

Wills of Sussex Clergy, by Rev. A. C. Crookshank, published August 1942 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. IX no. 3, article, pp.67-69) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8227][Lib 2208] & The Keep [LIB/500211] & S.A.S. library

Wills of Sussex Clergy, by Rev. A. C. Crookshank, published November 1942 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. IX no. 4, article, p.96) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8227][Lib 2208] & The Keep [LIB/500211] & S.A.S. library

Religious thought of Robertson of Brighton, by Thompson Lewis Shannon, 1946 at Edinburgh University (Ph.D. thesis)   View Online

Absentee Parsons, by G. D. Johnston, published February 1951 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIII no. 5, article, pp.107-109) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8231] & The Keep [LIB/500215] & S.A.S. library

Christ Church-Unitarian-New Road, Brighton. A short history, by John Rowland, B.Sc., published 1953 (Loughborough: Echo Press) accessible at: British Library

A Descriptive Report on the Quarter Sessions, Other Official and Ecclesiastical Records in the Custody of the County Councils of West and East Sussex, with a Guide to the Development and Historical Interest of Archives, compiled by The Clerk of West Sussex and the Clerk of East Sussex County Councils, published 1954 (East Sussex & West Sussex County Councils) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 5579]

The publication of this report marks the progress that has been made in the West and East Sussex County Record Offices since the appointment of County Archivists in 1946 and 1950 respectively. The greater part of the records now indexed and made accessible to students are those of the Court of Quarter Sessions (judicial and administrative!), the Lieutenancy, the Coroners and the County Councils. Reference to the return made by the Clerk of the Peace in 1800, when the records were kept in his private residence "pretty well preserved" and "pretty much kept separately" without "any person specially entrusted with the care of the said Records" (p. vii) and to the list of documents missing and "destroyed as useless" (p. 5), reminds one of the need there was for an official archivist. A great advantage in having properly staffed and organised County Record Offices is seen in the fact that they have already become repositories for archives from other sources. This volume includes the contents of the Diocesan Record Office established as an annexe to the County Record Office at Chichester by an agreement with the Bishop of Chichester in 1949, for the preservation of parish registers and other records, and in 1951 for the Episcopal and Chapter records from the Cathedral and the Diocesan Registry. Up to date over forty parishes have deposited their records at Chichester, while the Episcopal records number about a thousand books and 50,000 papers. A future volume in this series will, it is hoped, deal with the Estate and Family Archives, many of which are now in the care of the County Archivist.
The present volume was largely the work of the late Mr. Campbell Cooke and is a fitting memorial of his excellent work in starting the County Record Offices on the right lines. The division of the County between two administrative authorities in 1889 introduces complications in the treatment of the archives and it was a wise decision to publish a combined report to cover both County Record Offices. This report is more than a list of the classes of documents and a guide to the offices in which they are to be found: it includes also a brief historical introduction to each class, which explains the origin of the records and indicates the kind of information which may be found in them. It forms thus an indispensable handbook for anyone embarking upon research in this county. There is a useful index and some cross referencing between the different classes. One small point for correction in a future edition - Brighton, by a typographical error, appears on p. 5 as a Cinque Port.

Sussex Religious at the Dissolution, by L. F. Salzman, F.S.A., published 1954 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 92, article, pp.24-36) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2177] & The Keep [LIB/500337] & S.A.S. library

The Grey Friars in Chichester, by Francis W. Steer, F.S.A., published 1955 (Chichester Papers no. 2, Chichester City Council) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

The Friars and West Grinstead, by Fr. Justin McLoughlin, published 1957 (article) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7889]

The established church and the education of the Victorian middle classes: a study of the Woodard Schools, 1847-1891, by W. B. D. Heeney, 1962 at Oxford University (D. Phil. Thesis)

Sussex Non-parochial Registers, by N. Caplan, published November 1962 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XV no. 10, article, pp.334-338) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8233][Lib 2982] & The Keep [LIB/500217] & S.A.S. library

An Example of Local Opposition to the Order of Communion of 1548, by J. Fines, published May 1967 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVI no. 9, article, pp.293-296) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8234] & The Keep [LIB/500218] & S.A.S. library

Religion and Society in Elizabethan Sussex, by Roger B. Manning, published 1 July 1969 (332 pp., Leicester University Press, ISBN-10: 0718510844 & ISBN-13: 9780718510848) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2549] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The story of Brighton Unitarian Church, by John Rowland, published 1972 (London: The Lindsey Press)

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.

Toleration Act Registrations for Sussex, by N. Caplan, published June 1974 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 1 no. 5, article, pp.129-131) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7965] & The Keep [LIB/501253] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The Toleration Act 1688 allowed public worship by Protestant Dissenters subject to various conditions including registration of all such meetings either with the Diocesan authorities or Quarter Sessions

Dissenters' Indictments, 1624-27, 1681, by Michael J. Burchall, published March 1975 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 1 no. 8, article, pp.244-249) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7965] & The Keep [LIB/501253] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

A list of people who had not attended church for three successive Sundays. Article covers the years 1624 - 1681 in the parishes of Chichester, Lewes, and Arundel

Religious Dissent in 1717 including Badger's Account of Sussex 1717, by N. Caplan, published April 1977 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 21, article, pp.116-117, ISSN: 0307-2568) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF

Brighton Presbyterian Registers, 1700-1837, by M. J. Burchall, published 1979 (pamphlet, iv + 32 pp., Sussex Family History Group) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7146] & The Keep [LIB/501286] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Historic Churches Trust - An Historical Perspective, by N. Caplan, published April 1979 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 27, article, p.183, ISSN: 0307-2568) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF

Silly Sussex [the history of Christianity in Sussex], by George Cockman, published c.1980 (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13780]

Church and Dissent in Warbleton, c.1500-1900, by Jeremy Goring, published 1980 (Warbleton and District History Group) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503058]

Educational & Social Conflict in East Grinstead in the 18th & 19th Centuries: Part 2 The Zion Chapel, by Deidre Neville, published March 1980 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 4 no. 3, article, pp.89-92) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8672] & The Keep [LIB/501256] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

A Preaching Diary of George Gilbert of Heathfield, by Neil Caplan, published September 1980 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 2 no. 2, article, pp.72-74) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8671] & The Keep [LIB/501188] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

The name of George Gilbert deserves to be better-known in the annals of Sussex religious dissent because he played so great a part in the religious revival in Sussex during his sixty years of ministry at Heathfield from 1767 to 1827

Scarlet cassocks, tippets and the mysterious black powder (the Purchas Judgement 1871), by Michael J Butler, published 1981 (15 pp., Hove: Chichester Diocesan Fund and Board of Finance) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries

The judgement given in 1871 by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council against the Revd John Purchas (1823-1872) that Eucharistic vestments, the eastward position, the mixed chalice, and wafer bread were illegal. The decision meant that the ritualists were held to be law-breakers, but it was widely disregarded (including by Purchas himself). Purchas was curate of St Paul's Brighton 1861-66, and died at Brighton.

Sussex Dissent, by Neil Caplan, published 1981 (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7790] & West Sussex Libraries

The Religious Revival in Victorian Brighton, by Edward Elton Young Hales, published 1981 (Diocese of Chichester)

The Sussex Cokelers, by Roger Homan, published 1981 (pamphlet, 8 pp., Chichester Diocesan Fund and Board of Finance) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7798] & West Sussex Libraries

The Effects upon Schooling in Sussex of the Legislation dissolving the Religious Houses and Chantries, by A. R. Morris, published 1981 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 119, article, pp.149-156) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7989] & The Keep [LIB/500306] & S.A.S. library

New Light on the Deprivation of Puritan Ministers in Sussex after the Hampton Court Conference, by Sybil Jack, published 1981 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 119, historical note, p.227) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7989] & The Keep [LIB/500306] & S.A.S. library

The Reformation in Sussex, by M. J. Kitch, published July 1981 in Studies in Sussex Church History (edited by M. J. Kitch, pp.77-98, London: Leopard's Head Press & The University of Sussex, ISBN-10: 0904920038 & ISBN-13: 9780904920031) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The clergy and the Elizabethan settlement in the diocese of Chichester, by T. J. McCann, published July 1981 in Studies in Sussex Church History (edited by M. J. Kitch, pp.99-124, London: Leopard's Head Press & The University of Sussex, ISBN-10: 0904920038 & ISBN-13: 9780904920031) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Religion, Faction and Politics in Reformation Rye. 1530-1559, by Graham Mayhew, published 1982 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 120, article, pp.139-160) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8620] & The Keep [LIB/500307] & S.A.S. library

Sussex Religious Dissent c.1830, by N. Caplan, published 1982 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 120, article, pp.193-204) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8620] & The Keep [LIB/500307] & S.A.S. library

Records of the English Franciscan Nuns, 1621-1972: a handlist, by Alison and Timothy J. McCann, published 1983 (pamphlet, published by the authors) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8851] & West Sussex Libraries

The enforcement of religious uniformity in England 1668-1700 with special reference to the dioceses of Chichester and Worcester, by E. Davies, 1983 at Oxford University (Ph.D. thesis)

Bells and smells': London, Brighton and south coast religion reconsidered, by W. N. Yates, published 1983 in Southern History (vol. 5, article, pp.122-153)

The Reformation of the Ministry in Elizabethan Sussex, by Jeremy Goring, published 1983 in Journal of Ecclesiastical History (vol. 34, no. 3, article, pp.345-366) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8897] & The Keep [LIB/502423]

Sussex Religious Dissent and Railways, by Neil Caplan, published March 1983 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 4 no. 4, article, pp.124-127) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8893] & The Keep [LIB/501190] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

Robert and James Anderson: Influential Brethren of Contrasting Churchmanship in 19th Century Brighton, by John Wylie, published December 1983 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 5 no. 3, article, pp.111-116) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9173] & The Keep [LIB/501191] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

Newman, Pusey and The Oxford Movement: The Brighton Connection, by John Lambert, published March 1984 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 5 no. 4, article, pp.132-136) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9173] & The Keep [LIB/501191] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

The Oxford Movement and East Grinstead, by Michael Leppard, published March 1984 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 5 no. 4, article, pp.149-151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9173] & The Keep [LIB/501191] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

Newman and Pusey in Brighton: A Footnote, by Michael Leppard, published June 1984 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 6 no. 1, article, p.36) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [MP 6277] & The Keep [LIB/501192] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

Perhaps your Sussex Ancestors were dissenters?, by John Caffyn, published March 1987 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 7 no. 4, article, pp.126-129) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10461] & The Keep [LIB/501259] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Dissenters and their Records in Rotherfield, by Mrs. Claire McGill, published June 1987 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 7 no. 5, article, p.178) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10461] & The Keep [LIB/501259] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Exhortations of an 18th Century Vicar, by Ronald Tibble, published May 1989 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 43, article, p.20) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/43] & The Keep [LIB/500482]

Toleration, by P. B. Evershed, published September 1989 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 8 no. 7, article, p.314) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10736] & The Keep [LIB/501260] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

This year many Nonconformist Churches have celebrated the tercentenary of the Toleration Act of 1689.

The Religious Census of Sussex 1851, edited by John A. Vickers, published August 1990 (vol. 75, xxvi + 211 pp., Sussex Record Society, 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   View Online

This volume contains the returns made for Sussex in accordance with the Census of Religious Worship held in conjunction with the decennial Census of Population of 1851. It provides a unique body of statistical evidence on the religious condition of England and Wales in that auspicious year of the Great Exhibition.
The census has attracted great interest from historians and sociologists of religion who have used it as one means of assessing the 'grassroots' importance of religion in Victorian society. This unique source-for such a census has never been repeated-casts great light on patterns of denominational strengths and weaknesses across the country. It is an invaluable source to the local historian interested in patterns of religious observance in a given village or region.
Included in this volume are the returns for 602 places of worship. Just over two-fifths of them are for nonconformist congregations, notably Independents and Wesleyans, with the Baptists trailing in third place. Smaller congregations are noted of Roman Catholics, the Society of Friends, the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion and the Unitarians. One congregation in Brighton originated from the evangelical work of William Huntington, the coal heaver-turned-evangelist. The returns suggest that Anglican congregations were doing well in the fast-rising seaside towns, notably Brighton, while nonconformist chapels were proliferating in the villages of the Weald.
The returns offer a comprehensive statistical survey of the situation in 1851, detailing numbers of worshippers, accommodation, and the size of congregations on Census Sunday, 30 March 1851, in addition to a variety of other information. Statistical tables for county, diocese and Registration Districts are reprinted from the Census Report of 1853. Population figures for each parish are taken from the report of the Census of Population.
The editor has supplied a full introduction which considers the historical importance and value of the census material and discusses its accuracy and reliability, along with various problems of interpretation.

Reverend Richard Turner (1620-1680), by Ronald Tibble, published September 1990 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 9 no. 3, article, pp.93-97) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11999] & The Keep [LIB/501261] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Richard Turner was born 21 Dec 1620 at Fletching to Richard Turner and Joan Baker and educated at the Free Grammar School at Lewes and Magdalen College, Oxford. He was ordained as a Presbyterian priest in 1651 and held the post of Vicar of Preston until 1662 when he lost his position as a result of his non-conformist views. At his home in Plumpton he continued to preach and educate until his death in 1680.

A Sussex Dissenting Family: the Ridges of Westgate Chapel, Lewes, by Jeremy Goring, published 1991 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 129, article, pp.195-216) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11694] & The Keep [LIB/500295] & S.A.S. library

Shulbrede Priory, by F J-D [Mrs D.V.F Johnson-Davies], published December 1991 in Midhurst Magazine (Volume 4 Number 2, article, pp.12-17, Winter 1991) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15967]

The history of the medieval Shulbrede Priory in the parish of Linchmere, believed to have been founded in 1190.

"The Changes and Chances of this mortal life": The Vicissitudes of High Churchmanship and Politics among the Clergy of Sussex, 1700 - 1745, by Jeff Chamberlain, published 1992 (University of Illinois Press) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502075]

Holy Trinity Parish Church, Eastbourne: a short history, by Martin W. Hayward, published 1993 (38 pp.) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Notes on a source for John Foxe's account of the Marian persecution in Kent and Sussex, by T. Freeman, published June 1994 in Institute of Historical Research (vol. 67, issue 163, article, pp.203-211) accessible at: British Library   View Online

The Church of England, 1570-1640, by Dr. Andrew Foster, published 19 September 1994 (144 pp., Routledge, ISBN-10: 0582355745 & ISBN-13: 9780582355743) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Dr Foster traces the eventful history of the Church of England from shortly after its establishment in Elizabeth I's reign down to 1640, when it was on the verge of destruction. As well as analysing its principal features he considers the conflicting interpretations that this most controversial of periods has stimulated. He also provides a detailed chronological chart to help students with alternative readings of events and to prompt thoughts about how 'facts shift according to different perspectives'

The Kent/Sussex Border at the Change of Religion, by C. W. Field, published June 1995 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 11 no. 6, article, pp.209-216) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14878] & The Keep [LIB/501263] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The tragedy of what we call the change of religion is that the onslaught, when it came, hit the Catholic body when it was at a very low ebb.

London, Brighton and south coast religion? : Tractarianism and ritualism in Brighton, Hove and Worthing, by Ruth Cowl, 1996 at University of Keele (Ph.D. thesis)

Reformation and Reaction in Sussex 1534-1559, by Jeremy Goring, published 1996 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 134, article, pp.141-154) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13390] & The Keep [LIB/500296] & S.A.S. library

Accommodating High Churchmen: The Clergy of Sussex, 1700-1745 (Studies in Anglican History)., by Jeffrey S. Chamberlain, published 1997 (216 pp., University of Illinois Press, ISBN-10: 0252023080 & ISBN-13: 9780252023088)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-183) and index. Also, list of abbreviations, intro, High-Church ethos and its development, high churchmanship in Sussex, 1688-1734, patronage, politics, and churchmanship : wooing the clergy, 1715-34, Toryism, high churchmanship, and the election of 1734, clergy and the end of Tory opposition in Sussex, 1740-46.

Conquest, lordship and religious patronage in the Sussex Rapes, 1066-1135, by Emma Cowie, published 1998 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 136, article, pp.111-122) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13921] & The Keep [LIB/500297] & S.A.S. library

Gervase of Chichester and the applied theology of the priesthood in late twelfth-century England : a comparative study, by Victoria Christine Appel, 1999 at Oxford University (Ph.D. thesis)

Parochialization and patterns of patronage in 11th-Century Sussex, by Neil S. Rushton, published 1999 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 137, article, pp.133-152) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14439] & The Keep [LIB/500291] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The 11th century was a crucial period for the formation of the parochial system in England. The old minster parochial were being broken up and their rights encroached upon by an increasing number of new churches, which can be recognized as the parish churches of the later Middle Ages. A study of Anglo-Saxon law-codes, Domesday Book, charters, confirmations, and other documentary sources from Sussex is used to recreate the chronology of parochialization in the county and allow for an assessment of the effect of the Norman Conquest and the subsequent changing patterns of patronage on the parish system. The patronage of magnates, particularly Robert of Eu and William de Braose, is used as an example of how a change of aristocracy did, and did not, come into conflict with the previously established jurisdictional areas of the minsters. An interdisciplinary approach is vital: archaeological and architectural evidence is assessed in order to gain as full an understanding as possible about the extent to which the parochial system was changing in the 11th century. The topographical and socio-religious peculiarities of Sussex are taken into consideration; especially the Wealden coverage of large parts of the uplands and the relatively late conversion of the South Saxons to Christianity which may have stifled the development of the minster parochial in the first place. Although the county is treated as a discrete example of parochialization, the interpretations are applied to the rest of the country in order to make some useful generalizations

The Parochialisation of Sussex 1000-1086-1291, by Neil Rushton, published 1 January 1999 in An Historical Atlas of Sussex (pp.36-37, Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd, ISBN-10: 1860771122 & ISBN-13: 9781860771125) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14026][Lib 18777] & The Keep [LIB/501686][LIB/508903] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Religious Foundations, by Mark Taylor, published 1 January 1999 in An Historical Atlas of Sussex (pp.46-47, Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd, ISBN-10: 1860771122 & ISBN-13: 9781860771125) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14026][Lib 18777] & The Keep [LIB/501686][LIB/508903] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Religious Observance in the 17th Century, by Timothy McCann, published 1 January 1999 in An Historical Atlas of Sussex (pp.56-57, Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd, ISBN-10: 1860771122 & ISBN-13: 9781860771125) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14026][Lib 18777] & The Keep [LIB/501686][LIB/508903] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Religious Worship 1851, by John Vickers, published 1 January 1999 in An Historical Atlas of Sussex (pp.76-77, Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd, ISBN-10: 1860771122 & ISBN-13: 9781860771125) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14026][Lib 18777] & The Keep [LIB/501686][LIB/508903] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Church, land and lordship in West Sussex, 680-1200 , by Philip John Masters, 2001 at Leicester University (Ph.D. thesis)   View Online

This thesis contributes to the debate on the nature of Anglo-Saxon minsters and regional variation in the Anglo-Saxon and Norman Church by relating form, setting and endowment of churches to origin and function, examining the relationship between Minster parochiae and estates in contrasting landscapes, and assessing the effects of the Norman Conquest at a local level. Extensive survival of Saxo-Norman churches in western Sussex allows a classification and chronology to be developed, while a systematic approach to topography and records of glebes defines settings, enclosures and endowments. Anglo-Saxon charters, episcopal, capitular and monastic records, manorial documents and state papers are the basis for analysing rights and dues between churches. High-status churches were frequent, but, except in two cases, probably dating from the ninth or tenth centuries, parochiae were ill-defined. They were smaller than the estates which differed in form between the coastal plain, Downs and Weald and differed from the extensive estates of eastern Sussex and Kent. It is likely that ecclesiastical and lay institutions failed to develop fully, at least in part as a result of exploitation by Wessex. There were probably few churches outside estate centres in 1066, but the types of church built in the period c. 1070 - 1120 reflect the pre-Conquest pattern. Two-cell churches were at small manors on poor land around the compact estates. Centrally-sited unicellular churches on the estates and in large Wealden parishes may be an indication of systematic pastoral provision. Larger churches at known or possible minster sites may be late Anglo-Saxon but are more likely to reflect the post-Conquest importance of collegiate churches. The form and siting of churches is found to be a helpful method of interpreting the institutional development of the Church, but rights and dues can be traced mainly to c. 1070-1120. The study points to a contrast between marginal areas like western Sussex and the heartlands of the major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

Burn, Holy Fire! Religion in Lewes since the Reformation, by Jeremy Goring, published 6 November 2003 (196 pp., The Lutterworth Press, ISBN-10: 0718830407 & ISBN-13: 9780718830403) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Lewes, the county town of East Sussex, is famous for its impressive bonfire night celebrations. The author examines the origins and importance of this festival and sheds new light on the commemoration of the martyrs burned for their beliefs, hundreds of years ago. Burn, Holy Fire! takes its title from a hymn by a collateral descendant of one of the men burned in the fire depicted on its cover, a formidable reminder of the religious fervour which dominated Europe during this turbulent period. Jeremy Goring traces the development of this town from the Reformation to the present day. Lewes was noted for its assimilation of a variety of Christian beliefs, from the rise of Puritanism and the Great Ejection, through the emergence of Nonconformity and the subsequent Evangelical Revival, through the Oxford movement, the Protestant-Catholic conflict, and the ecumenical movement, and finally the decline of institutional religion. Nearly every branch and brand of Christianity was represented here through the centuries. This 'absorbing book', as Asa Briggs describes it in his Foreword, is not only for students but for the general reader seeking a deeper understanding of the past. Goring believes that the social history of religion is best studied within the context of a particular local community, where elements of continuity and change can be clearly discerned. Lewes exemplifies almost everything of significance in the religious life of England over the last 500 years.

Secret history, by Colin W. Field, published June 2004 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 16 no. 2, article, pp.73-75) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508835] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The 'fight for the parishes' between orthodoxy and innovation at Salehurst and Brede

St Michael and All Angels parish church, Jarvis Brook: the first 100 years 1905-2005, by Michael Rabbetts, Megan Rabbetts, published 2005 (22 pp.) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Sussex Clergy Inventories 1660-1750, edited by Annabelle Hughes, published 1 June 2009 (vol. 91, xlii + 285 pp., Sussex Record Society, ISBN-10: 0854450734 & ISBN-13: 9780854450732) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16475] & The Keep [LIB/500468][Lib/507874] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

Probate inventories provide wonderful snapshots of contemporary life through material possessions; and in this volume you will find transcribed inventories for 181 parish clergy between 1600 and 1750, each with extracted details from the will or administration (where it survives) and brief biographical details. This is the first time the Society has published such a collection. Because these possessions are often listed room by room, they can also be used to extract information about contemporary buildings and the ways in which they were used. An analysis of the inventories on this basis is included to demonstrate how this can be done.
Clergy were chosen as a recognisable group, representative of county society across the time-frame. They were also selected because the majority of their inventories include valuations (and sometimes numbers) of books, items not found for many of the laity. Taken with information that sometimes appears in wills, these cast valuable light on the culture and literacy within this social group. The information is supplemented by an appendix which contains two clergy inventories outside the time-frame (1451 and 1791), which include important collections of books listed by title.
Until 1858, probate inventories, that is lists of 'goods and chattels' of a deceased person, were one of three documents (will or administration, inventory and accounts) that were required by the church courts for granting of probate. Although a will or administration has survived to accompany the inventory in most cases, the probate accounts, which provide valuable additional information, are much rarer. The six examples for our series have been included in an appendix. Although the courts required certain specific details as a matter of course, and the appraisers (local men who are named in most cases) followed a general pattern of presentation, in practice this could vary wildly according to their level of competence. As far as possible the original appearance of the inventories has been kept, while an explanatory note describes any modifications to or divergences from the originals.
The documents that make up this volume have been brought together from the West and East Sussex Record Offices as well as the National Archives. Their background and their value for a range of research projects is discussed in the introduction, as well as the ways in which they may be used in conjunction with other records such as ecclesiastical surveys, faculty records, hearth tax and studies of buildings.

This is the first time the Sussex Record Society has published such a collection of probate inventories and they provide such interesting snapshots of life through material possessions. The transcribed inventories for 181 parish clergy between 1600 and 1750 have been brought together from the West and East Sussex Record Offices as well as The National Archives.
The book will be of wide interest to family historians as well as social, local and ecclesiastical historians. The extracts from wills show the cultural level and literacy of parochial clergy at this time, by the inventory content i.e. valuation of books and sometimes the number of books, as clergy lifestyles vary from poverty-stricken curates to genteel and prosperous rectors. The individual inventories make fascinating reading and are clearly indexed in parish alphabetical order together with the name of the curate or vicar. For example, I quote: "ten payre of pillowcoats, Fourteen towels, eight hives of bees, one frying panne, 3 hennes and on cock, all the bookes value £30". Of course if a family historian discovers an ancestor from the 181 parish clergy listed then the information given is invaluable to the research of their family. Also these lists of material possessions are a useful glossary of unusual or obscure words used in inventories.
The information also included in the wills can be used for studies of buildings of the time - another valuable source for social history.

Monuments to God and Man: Cruciform plan churches in Sussex and the Norman aristocracy, by Richard J. Nieman, published December 2009 in Sussex Past & Present (no. 119, article, p.9, ISSN: 1357-7417) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/500475] & S.A.S. library   View Online

A substantial truth, to which every Sussex resident can surely attest, in architectural terms, is the legacy of countless generations of masons and craftsmen active during the Middle Ages. Of the myriad of extant monuments to consider this research examines the cruciform parish churches and chapels of the Anglo-Norman period c. 1066-c. 1200. Not only was this a particularly intriguing period in Sussex from a political point of view, it was also one of intense architectural activity and change.

St Andrew's Furnace Green, Crawley, by D. O'Donoghue, published 2010 in Church Building and Heritage Review (Issue 126, article, pp.22-25)

Piety in peril: a religiously conservative sixteenth century school of church monuments in Sussex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight , by D. R. Hutchinson, 2011 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)   View Online

During approximately twenty-five years of the early to mid-sixteenth century, a hitherto largely unnoticed series of Caen stone tombs were erected in Sussex and Hampshire churches with designs that emphasized religious imagery. These crudelycarved but high-status monuments displayed the piety of those commemorated and included a transitional mixture of Gothic and Renaissance motifs. Strong circumstantial evidence suggests they were carved by masons in Chichester, employed within a cathedral 'works organisation', who could offer lower transportation costs than those producing Purbeck marble tombs in London and Corfe, Dorset. The tombs satisfied the religiously conservative taste of local patrons with at least 14 tombs being designed as Easter Sepulchres. Later monuments appear incongruous when set against the backdrop of state-inspired change in religious doctrine and were among the last carved in the medieval tradition. As the pace of the Reformation quickened, the iconoclastic policies of the radically Protestant government of Edward VI constricted the masons' operations and probably brought their business to an end around 1550 - despite diversification into secular work. Employing archæological recording techniques and archival research, this project identifies and catalogues, for the first time, the 32 surviving examples of these masons' output, which demonstrate a much greater production rate and wider distribution than previously published. The project also investigates the destruction of the monuments' religious iconography by Protestant reformers, probably in 1548-53, and/or the erasure of devotional motifs by relatives in attempts to protect the tombs from damage. In addition, the project explores issues of patronage, the sources of the masons' designs, their construction methods and places them in the context of tomb production in London and the provinces in the mid-sixteenth century.

Dances of life and death : interpretations of early modern religious identity from rural parish churches and their landscapes along the Hampshire/Sussex border 1500-1800 , by Judith Frances Jones, 2013 at Southampton University (Ph.D. thesis)   View Online

This thesis enters a territory infrequently visited by English archaeologists - the early modern period. I have chosen a research area encompassing fifty neighbouring parish churches along the border of East Hampshire and West Sussex and studied what survives of their post-medieval material culture. Though these medieval churches have generally been altered in the 19th century many of them still retain material, architectural, landscape and documentary clues which reveal important aspects of their early modern condition and the religious experiences of their parishioners in life and death. A major aim has been to show that far from being stripped of imagery and cultural artefacts, other materials were introduced, designed to communicate new forms of Protestant ritual to parishioners who may frequently have been bewildered by the rapid religious changes of the 16th and 17th centuries. Having described the area and visited its historical biography in Part One and in order to capture a sense of what it was like to participate in parish religion, I concentrate on four themes emanating from my studies of these churches: space, sensory experience, the performance of memory and gender. Thus Part Two deals with the spatial qualities of new architectural innovations and the effects of the reorganisation of church furniture and is followed by an account of the sensory experiences which religious participation evoked. These discussions centre on the lives of parishioners. Part Three turns to parishioners' encounters with death and their understandings of the ways in which the church and churchyard framed and enabled the performance of social memory. The final discussion chapter is a series of case studies centred on tombs commissioned by individual gentlewomen for their families and themselves and their nuanced interpretations of mortuary imagery. A major element of this study lies in the way it develops contemporary methodological frameworks within early modern social archaeology. This allows a wider synthesis to be achieved using thematic regional approaches which run alongside the contextual exploration of the sample's locales over this long transitional period. My approach is also informed by theoretical issues emanating from a number of associated disciplines such as history, art history and anthropology. This is an unusual standpoint which aims to provide a particularly multilayered exploration of an area and time rich in archaeological material which builds on and develops current scholarly thinking in this particular realm of social archaeology.

1556- 1694 Sussex Church Court Deponents, compiled by Michael J Burchall, published 2014 by Parish Register Transcription Society (Ref: SXXDPN, CD-ROM) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/507813][Lib/507814]

The archives of the Sussex Church Courts are most interesting for local and family historians. Cases (known as Causes) could be brought by individuals or by direct summons from the court. Cases covered tithes, church repairs, pew allocation, probate, morality, matrimony, clergy responsibilities and even bewitching. Michael J Burchall FSG has extracted from the original records in West Sussex Record Office details of people who made depositions which include name, trade, age, birthplace and residences.

Art, Literature and Religion in Early Modern Sussex: Culture and Conflict, by Matthew Dimmock, Andrew Hadfield and Paul Quinn, published 17 September 2014 (286 pp., Routledge, ISBN-10: 1409457036 & ISBN-13: 9781409457039)

Art, Literature and Religion in Early Modern Sussex is an interdisciplinary study of a county at the forefront of religious, political and artistic developments in early-modern England. Ranging from the schism of Reformation to the outbreak of Civil War, the volume brings together scholars from the fields of art history, religious and intellectual history and English literature to offer new perspectives on early-modern Sussex. Essays discuss a wide variety of topics: the coherence of a county divided between East and West and Catholic and Protestant; the art and literary collections of Chichester cathedral; communities of Catholic gentry; Protestant martyrdom; aristocratic education; writing, preaching and exile; local funerary monuments; and the progresses of Elizabeth I. Contributors include Michael Questier; Nigel Llewellyn; Caroline Adams; Karen Coke; and Andrew Foster. The collection concludes with an Afterword by Duncan Salkeld (University of Chichester). This volume extends work done in the 1960s and 70s on early-modern Sussex, drawing on new work on county and religious identities, and setting it into a broad national context. The result is a book that not only tells us much about Sussex, but which also has a great deal to offer all scholars working in the field of local and regional history, and religious change in England as a whole.

Puritanism and a Sussex clerical scandal in the 1630s and 1640s, by Matthew Reynolds, published 2016 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 154, article, pp.227-241) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18939] & The Keep [LIB/509465] & S.A.S. library

A man after god's own heart': charisma, masculinity and leadership at a charismatic Church in Brighton and Hove, UK, by Ross Wignall, published 2 July 2016 in Religion (vol. 46, no. 3, article, pp.389-411)

Churches and Chapels of the South Downs National Park, by David Parsons and Robin Milner-Gulland, published 16 January 2017 (137 pp., Sussex Archæological Society, ISBN-10: 0904973271 & ISBN-13: 9780904973273) accessible at: S.A.S. library