Publications
On some Ancient Mural Paintings in Portslade Church, by Rev. Henry Hoper, published 1848 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 1, article, pp.161-163) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2086] & The Keep [LIB/500220] & S.A.S. library View Online
Ancient Mural Painting lately discovered in Lindfield Church. Engraved from a drawing by Miss Slater, by Miss Slater, published 1849 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 2, article, pp.129-132) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2087] & The Keep [LIB/500221] & S.A.S. library View Online
The Mural Paintings recently discovered in Stedham Church, by Rev. Leveson Vernon Harcourt, published 1851 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 4, article, pp.1-18) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2089] & The Keep [LIB/500223] & S.A.S. library View Online
Mural Paintings in Slaugham Church, by Rev. C. H. Campion, M.A., published 1861 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 13, article, pp.237-239) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2098] & The Keep [LIB/500232] & S.A.S. library View Online
Mural Paintings in Westmeston Church, by Rev. C. H. Campion, M.A., published 1864 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 16, article, pp.1-19) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2101] & The Keep [LIB/500235] & S.A.S. library View Online
Mural Paintings, Keymer Church, by C. H. Campion, published 1865 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 17, notes & queries, pp.249-250) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2102] & The Keep [LIB/500236] & S.A.S. library View Online
Mural Paintings in Plumpton Church, by Rev. C. Heathcote Campion, M.A., published 1868 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 20, article, pp.198-202) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2105] & The Keep [LIB/507132] & S.A.S. library View Online
On a Mural Painting lately discovered in Wisborough Green Church, by Rev. Edward Turner, published 1870 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 22, article, pp.134-147) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2017] & The Keep [LIB/500240] & S.A.S. library View Online
Wall Paintings in All Saints' Church, Hastings, by Thomas Ross, published 1871 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 23, article, pp.192-199) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2108] & The Keep [LIB/500241] & S.A.S. library View Online
Mural Painting of the Doom at Patcham Church, Sussex, by C. E. Keyser, M.A., F.S.A., published 1881 in The Archaeological Journal (vol. 38, article, pp.80-95) View Online
Mural Painting of the Doom at Patcham Church, Sussex, by J. G. Waller, published 1881 in The Archaeological Journal (vol. 38, article, pp.96-97) View Online
Mural Paintings In Sussex Churches, by J. L. André, published 1892 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 38, article, pp.1-20) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2123] & The Keep [LIB/500256] & S.A.S. library View Online
Description of the Mural Paintings at the Churches of Clayton and Rotherfield, Sussex, by Charles E. Keyser, published 1896 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 40, article, pp.211-221) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2125] & The Keep [LIB/500258] & S.A.S. library View Online
Mural Paintings in Sussex Churches, by Unknown Author(s), published 1900 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 43, article, pp.220-251) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2128] & The Keep [LIB/500261] & S.A.S. library View Online
Mural Paintings in Sussex Churches, by Philip M. Johnston, published 1901 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 44, notes & queries, pp.204-206) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2129] & The Keep [LIB/500262] & S.A.S. library View Online
Wall Painting in a House at Rye formerly known as 'The Old Flushing Inn'. 1. the Wall Painting, by Philip Mainwaring Johnston, F.R.I.B.A., published 1907 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 50, article, pp.117-137) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2135] & The Keep [LIB/500268] & S.A.S. library View Online
Wall Painting in a House at Rye formerly known as 'The Old Flushing Inn'. 2. the House, by Harold Sands, F.S.A., published 1907 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 50, article, pp.125-137) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2135] & The Keep [LIB/500268] & S.A.S. library View Online
On a Wall-painting till recently at Hardham Priory, Sussex, by C. J. Praetorius, published 1913 in Archaeologia; or Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity (vol. 64, article, pp.453-454) View Online
Abstract:Hardham Priory, Pulborough, Sussex, the property of Lord Charles Beresford, was destroyed by fire on May 16, 1912. A wooden beam in the brickwork of a modern chimney was the cause of the outbreak, by which the farmhouse was entirely destroyed.
Discovery of Wall Paintings at Hardham Priory, by Philip M. Johnston, F.S.A., F.R.I.B.A., published 1916 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 58, article, pp.1-5) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2143] & The Keep [LIB/500276] & S.A.S. library View Online
Mural Painting in New Shoreham Church, by E. F. Salmon, published May 1930 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. III no. 2, query, p.59) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8952][Lib 8221] & The Keep [LIB/500205] & S.A.S. library
Fragment of wall painting, Alfriston , by Walter H. Godfrey, published February 1931 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. III no. 5, note, pp.161-162) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8952][Lib 8221] & The Keep [LIB/500205] & S.A.S. library
Wall Paintings in Southease Church, by Alice M. Simpson, published February 1935 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. V no. 5, note, p.157) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2204][Lib 8223][Lib 8862] & The Keep [LIB/500207] & S.A.S. library
Mural Paintings in Sussex Churches, by F. Harrison, published November 1935 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. V no. 8, query, pp.252-253) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2204][Lib 8223][Lib 8862] & The Keep [LIB/500207] & S.A.S. library
Mural Paintings in Sussex Churches (ref. S.N.Q. V, 252), by Edward T. Long, published February 1936 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VI no. 1, reply, p.30) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12537][Lib 8863][Lib 8224] & The Keep [LIB/500208] & S.A.S. library
Wall Paintings in Southease Church., by E. Clive Rouse, published 1937 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 78, article, pp.3-12) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2163] & The Keep [LIB/500351] & S.A.S. library
George Inn, Alfriston, Wall Paintings, by W. H. G. [W. H. Godfrey], published August 1939 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VII no. 7, note, p.219) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12536][Lib 8864][Lib 2206] & The Keep [LIB/500209] & S.A.S. library
Lewes Priory and the Early Group of Wall Paintings in Sussex, by Audrey M. Baker, published 1942 in Walpole Society (vol. 31, article, pp.1-44) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7528]
Review by A. E. [Arundell Esdaile] in Sussex Notes and Queries, May 1947:This it not a review of Miss Baker's careful and fully illustrated study of the paintings in the parish churches of Clayton, Hardham, Plumpton and Westmeston, for she purports to follow it by one devoted to Hardham, and the time for a review will be then. The chief problems presenting themselves were (1) the supposed Cluniac origin of the paintings, for Lewes Priory had interests in all but Westmeston; and (2) whether English art was much modified by the Conquest. By study of contemporary art in wall paintings and illuminated MSS. in England and on the Continent, Miss Baker rejects the first, often-propounded, theory, and suggests that the influence of William de Warenne has been underrated. Similarly she fails to find any evidence of sudden change in English art due to the Normans.
Clayton Wall Paintings, by Unknown, published February 1942 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. IX no. 1, reply, p.20) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8227][Lib 2208] & The Keep [LIB/500211] & S.A.S. library
Wall paintings in Berwick Church, Sussex, by Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell and Quentin Bell, by Clive Bell, published 4 June 1943 in Country Life (article, pp.1016-1017)
Twelfth century paintings at Hardham and Clayton, by Clive Bell and photographed by Hemut Gernsheim, published 1947 (20 pp. & 40 leaves of plates, Lewes: Miller's Press) accessible at: R.I.B.A. Library & East Sussex Libraries
Wall Paintings at Coombes, Sussex, by E. Clive Rouse, F.S.A., published May 1949 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XII no. 6 & 7, article, pp.121-123) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8230] & The Keep [LIB/500214] & S.A.S. library
16th Century Wall paintings Discovered at Horsham, by B. F. Pay, published November 1953 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIII nos. 15 & 16, note, p.323) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8231] & The Keep [LIB/500215] & S.A.S. library
Wall Paintings in Pallingham Manor, by K. M. Wallis, published May 1956 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIV nos. 9 & 10, note, p.174) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8232][Lib 2213] & The Keep [LIB/500216] & S.A.S. library
Wall Paintings in St Michael's Church, Plumpton, by E. Clive Rouse, M.B.E., F.S.A., published November 1956 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIV nos. 11 & 12, article, pp.187-189) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8232][Lib 2213] & The Keep [LIB/500216] & S.A.S. library
A Wall Painting in Pallingham Manor, Wisborough Green, by G. H. Kenyon, published November 1956 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIV nos. 11 & 12, note, p.208) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8232][Lib 2213] & The Keep [LIB/500216] & S.A.S. library
The Wall Paintings in the Church of St John the Baptist, Clayton, by Audrey M. Baker, published 1970 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 108, article, pp.58-81) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2193] & The Keep [LIB/500321] & S.A.S. library
Romanesque wall paintings of Hardham church, Sussex, with reference to those in the other churches of the 'Lewes Group', by W. D. Park, 1975 at Manchester University (M.A. thesis)
The Murals at Newtimber Place, by John Anthoy Kiechler, published 1975 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 113, article, pp.175-181) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 6177] & The Keep [LIB/500316] & S.A.S. library
Wilmington Priory Crypt - Traces of Wall Paintings, by R. V. Kyrke, published August 1977 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 22, article, p.121, ISSN: 0307-2568) accessible at: S.A.S. library Download PDF
The Early Wall Paintings in Coombes Church, Sussex, and their Iconography, by Clive Rouse and Audrey Baker, published 1979 in The Archaeological Journal (vol. 136, article, pp.218-228) View Online
Wall Paintings in St Mary's Church, Battle, by Edward Clive Rouse, published 1979 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 117, article, pp.151-160) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7497] & The Keep [LIB/500312] & S.A.S. library
Discovering Wall Paintings, by Edward Clive Rouse, published 1980 (Shire Publications)
The Lewes Group of Wall Paintings in Sussex, by David Park, published 1984 (offprint) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9093]
Clayton, Coombes, Hardham, Plumpton and Westmeston
The problem of the early Sussex frescoes, by R. R. Milner Gulland, published 1985 in Southern History (vol. 7, article, pp.26-43)
The Wall Paintings at Hardham, by Christopher Aggs and John Wyatt, published 1987 (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9823] & West Sussex Libraries
Gothic Enriched: Thomas Jackson's Mural Tablets in Brighton College Chapel, by Martin D. W. Jones, published 1991 in Journal of the Church Monuments Society (vol. VI, article)
The Murals, Victory Hall, Balcombe, by Joan Dutton, published 1995 (leaflet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15590]
Feibusch Murals, Chichester and Beyond, by Alan Powers, published 1997 (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13643]
Adam and Eve and the Lord God: The Adam and Eve Cycle of Wall Paintings in the Church of Hardham, Sussex, by Audrey M. Baker, published 1998 in The Archaeological Journal (vol. 155, article, pp.207-225) View Online
Abstract:The church at Hardham is a small simple building constructed of sandstone and ironstone rubble interspersed with Roman tiles; originally it was whitewashed. It was built without a tower, but a bell turret was added in Victorian times. There are no features which prove that it was built before the Conquest, but three of the deeply-splayed windows are primitive; one of them has a rebate on the outside for a shutter. Other windows were cut later, the earliest being a double lancet behind the altar which dates from the thirteenth century. The church consists of a nave, 9.6 m x 5.8 m (31 ft 6 in x 19 ft), and chancel, 5.2 m x 4.7 m (17 ft x 15 ft 6 in). The insertion of the lancet window has destroyed the centrepiece of the decorative scheme of paintings which extended over both parts of the church and formed an integrated whole (Johnston 1901a, 74; 1901b, 62; Milner Gulland 1985, 27, 43; Baker 1986, 49-49). In both nave and chancel the theme of the decoration is the contrast between good and evil. Thus, in the nave the Sacrificial Lamb with angels waving censers is placed over the chancel arch and is confronted by a representation of the damned in hell which faces it on the west wall. In the chancel, Christ seated in Majesty, adored by Cherubim and the Elders of the Apocalypse, was painted on the east wall and faced a representation of the Fall of Man and the history of Adam and Eve on the east face of the chancel arch. This scheme interprets the words of St Paul, As in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive' (I Corinthians xv, v 22). The central part of this composition was destroyed by the insertion of the thirteenth-century window. The theological idea that sin was brought into the world by the disobedience of Adam and Eve, and could only be expunged by the Life and Passion of Christ, is often illustrated in the Middle Ages. This, for instance, is the theme of the illustrations in the St Albans Psalter, which was produced during the first half of the twelfth century (Dodwell et al. 1960, 49; see especially Pacht 1962, 49-53).
Church Wall Paintings Where are they? An appeal for help, by Gill Lindsay, published April 2010 in Sussex Past & Present (no. 120, article, p.9, ISSN: 1357-7417) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/500475] & S.A.S. library View Online
The Sherwin Brothers' Copy of the Lost Mary Rose Wall Painting at Cowdray House, by Bernard Nurse, published September 2012 in The Antiquaries Journal (vol. 92, article, pp.371-384) View Online
Abstract:The publication by the Society between 1778 and 1788 of reduced black-and-white engravings of the celebrated wall paintings at Cowdray House, Sussex, was highly controversial at the time; now the engravings, one of which shows the sinking of the Mary Rose, serve as an important record of the sixteenth-century originals, lost to a fire of 1793. No contemporary colour copies of this particular wall painting were thought to have survived until the discovery in 2010 of a watercolour (since acquired by the British Library) depicting some of the central figures, including a remarkable image of Henry viii in the last months of his life. Further sketches of details by the same artists, the Sherwin brothers, found in the Mitford archives, help to throw new light on the original Tudor painting.
West Chiltington church: structure and wall paintings, by Robin Milner-Gulland, John F. Potter and Pamela Tudor-Craig, published 2016 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 154, article, pp.169-193) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18939] & The Keep [LIB/509465] & S.A.S. library
Late 16th-century domestic wall painting: an example from Fittleworth, West Sussex, by Danae Tankard, published 2016 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 154, article, pp.195-208) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18939] & The Keep [LIB/509465] & S.A.S. library
The Wall Paintings of Clayton Church, Sussex, by H. C. Loasby, published (no date) (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9217]