Early Modern Sussex: An Exhibition





Religious change in Sussex
The economy of early modern Sussex
Strange tales and literary Sussex
County society and governance
Sussex as point of entry and exit, and
suspicion.
Chichester Cathedral
Barnard Panels I
Barnard Panels II
Barnard Panels III
Barnard’s other Sussex work
Robert Sherborn (1508 – 36)
Day (1543 – 51)
Scory (1552 – 3)
Barlow (1559 – 68)
King (1642 – 6, 1660 – 9)
John and William Cawley
Echoes
Boxgrove Priory
Boxgrove Priory
St. Botolph’s
Hardham

The temptation.
Positioned inside the
sanctuary along with
further scenes from
Genesis, including ‘Eve
milking a strange
beast’.
St.Mary’s
West Chiltington
St. Mary’s
West Chiltington
St. Mary’s slit,
West Chiltington
St. Margaret’s
West Hoathly
De La Warre chantrychapel
Boxgrove
De La Warr chantry chapel
Boxgrove
th
18
century graffiti
Buried altar, St. Mary’s
West Chiltington
West Grinstead





Top: Relics of Francis Bell
(executed 1643).
Possibly warning or sanctus
bell.
Travelling chalice, base and
cup unscrew to enable
concealment and transport.
Attributed to Bell.
16th/17th century chalice
Altar stone, again, part of
‘kit’ for recusant priests
travelling between
communities.
West Grinstead ‘hide’
Font, Holy Trinity,
Cuckfield
Cuckfield, wealth from iron
St. Margaret’s
West Hoathly
Iron wealth, West Hoathly
Iron
St. Swithun’s,
East Grinstead
Firebacks, Priest’s House, West Hoathley


Left: Wealden Fireback. Three initials may suggest a
couple, possibly to commemorate or celebrate a
marriage.
Right: Flemish or Flemish-inspired 17th century fireback.
th
16


century Wealden firebacks
Left: Scissors possibly indicates trade of owner or a re-usable
pattern.
Right: Hand-imprint may be a mistake made during molding
process.
More 16th century Wealden iron firebacks
Political or commemorative firebacks


Left: Commemoration of the defeat of the Armada
(16th century).
Right: Suggestions that this 17th century piece is a
protest against the Cromwell regime.
(Anne of Cleves House)
More politics


Left: Charles I (English, 17th century).
Right: Two cavaliers holding pikes. Possibly based on
German model (English, 17th century).
(Anne of Cleves House)
Top left: Abraham and Isaac (Flemish or Dutch, 17th century)
Top right: King David (Flemish or Dutch, 1667)
Bottom left: Book of Esther (Germany, 17th century)
Bottom right: Christ and the woman of Samaria (Flemish or Dutch, 17th – 18th c)
Religious firebacks


Possibly preReformation fireback.
See also Hastings
Museum and Art
Gallery for ‘The Three
Children’, scene from
the Book of Daniel.
Martyrs Fireback
Acts and Monuments
(1563, 1570)
Probable imported woodblock, as
with Farrar/Carver illustration, used
in conjunction with two different
narrative.
In the 1563 and 1570 editions, it
illustrates the deaths of Simon
Miller and Elizabeth Cooper at
Norwich.
In the 1583 edition, it now
illustrates the deaths of Gouch and
Driver’s wife. There are no images
of Miller and Cooper in the 1583
edition.
Left: Farrar’s death is illustrated with this image in the 1570, 1576 and 1583 editions,
replacing the original image used in 1563.
Right: Carver’s image, used in 1570, 1576 and 1583, is the same image as Farrar
(obviously).
Left: Burning of 10 martyrs at Lewes (22nd June 1557, date of Woodman’s execution),
found in 1570, 1576 and 1583 editions of Foxe.
Right: The Martyrs Fireback
Peter
Baude
Charles I
Ashburnham
Anthony
Browne,
Viscount
Montague
Culpepper
Margaret
Henslowe
Ralph
Hogge
Arthur
Langsworth
Richard
Woodman
Philip
Henslowe
Edward
Alleyn
Christopherson
Alban
Langdale
Edmund
Gage
Other
Sussex
Martyrs?
Other
Sussex
Protestants?
Bradford
and
Philpot
John
Trewe
Constance
Donne
John
Donne
Edmund
Bonner
European
Protestantism?
Henry
King