Publications
The Rise of the Dallingridge Family, by Nigel Saul, published 1998 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 136, article, pp.123-132) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13921] & The Keep [LIB/500297] & S.A.S. library
The Cuckoo in the Nest: a Dallingridge tomb in the Fitzalan Chapel at Arundel, by Nigel Saul, published 2009 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 147, article, pp.125-133) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 17254] & The Keep [LIB/500365] & S.A.S. library View Online
Abstract:An indenture of 1 March 1476, preserved at Arundel Castle, records the acquisition by John Dudley of Atherington of a marble tomb in Arundel collegiate church. The tomb had originally been commissioned for the use of Richard Dallingridge, who had died five years before. The article identifies the tomb as the lower of the two currently supporting the effigies of the 9th Earl of Arundel and his wife in their chantry chapel on the south side of the Fitzalan Chapel at Arundel. It is suggested that Dudley acquired the tomb for the use of his wife Elizabeth, whose interment at Arundel is referred to in his will of 1500. The article concludes by identifying the circumstances which could have led Richard Dallingridge, the last of the Dallingridges of Bodiam, to seek burial in a church at the opposite end of the county from his family's base.
Grave stuff: litigation with a London tomb-maker in 1421, by Nigel Saul, Jonathan Mackman and Christopher Whittick, published 2011 in Historical Research (vol. 84, no. 226, article, pp.572-585)
The recent A.H.R.C.-funded project on 'Londoners and the law' has brought to light a case in the court of common pleas in which the executors of Sir John Dallingridge of Bodiam (d. 1408) sued a London mason, John Petit, for failure to deliver to their satisfaction a tomb monument commemorating the deceased knight. The greater part of the contract for the monument was rehearsed in the pleadings, and as a result valuable light is shed on the expectations of patrons and the workings of the market in tomb monuments. Today, at Bodiam castle there survives a mutilated fragment of an alabaster torso which, on the evidence of the heraldry, must have formed part of a tomb monument to Sir John Dallingridge. It is suggested that this alabaster effigy is the product of a different commission from the one given to Petit, and that after Petit's dismissal Dallingridge's executors went to a Midlands firm in search of a suitable replacement.