Early Modern Sussex: An Exhibition
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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’sHardham
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’sWest Chiltington
St. Mary’s slit,West Chiltington
St. Margaret’sWest Hoathly
De La Warre chantrychapelBoxgrove
De La Warr chantry chapel Boxgrove
18th century graffiti
Buried altar, St. Mary’sWest 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’sWest 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.
16th 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 pre-Reformation 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
Richard Woodman
John Trewe
EdmundGage
Bradford and
Philpot
EdmundBonner
Alban Langdale
Anthony Browne,Viscount Montague
RalphHogge
PeterBaude Margaret
Henslowe
Philip Henslowe
Edward Alleyn
Arthur LangsworthCulpepper
Ashburnham
Charles I
Constance Donne
John Donne
Henry King
Christopherson
OtherSussex
Martyrs?Other
Sussex Protestants?
EuropeanProtestantism?