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sLow susseX<br />
the hardham Wall paintingS<br />
While researching my book Slow Sussex, one of many<br />
surprises was the number of churches with medieval<br />
wall paintings intact. That these anonymous works<br />
of art have survived is often due to zealous <strong>co</strong>vering<br />
over in subsequent centuries, which meant once they<br />
were again revealed they reappeared remarkably fresh.<br />
Southwest of Pulborough and well hidden on a loop of<br />
road away from the A29, Hardham’s modest-looking<br />
church is not the sort of place you’d chance across.<br />
Supposedly built from recycled Roman brick and<br />
tiles from a nearby military site, this Saxon building<br />
has the earliest near-<strong>co</strong>mplete set of medieval wall<br />
paintings of any English church. Dating from around<br />
1100 but <strong>co</strong>vered up some time after until redis<strong>co</strong>very<br />
in 1866, the depictions include the Torments of Hell<br />
on the west wall, the Nativity on the south wall and<br />
the Flight into Egypt on the north wall. Clearest of<br />
all are the strangely Picasso-esque Adam and Eve on<br />
the west wall of the chancel. If the fres<strong>co</strong>-seeking bug<br />
bites you, Clayton church has an impressive set, dating<br />
from the 11th century, and there’s more at the tiny,<br />
remote Norman church at Coombes, in a wonderful,<br />
sloping churchyard above Church Farm near Lancing.<br />
More Sussex pleasures in Tim Locke’s Slow Sussex,<br />
Guide Book of the Year Finalist in British Press<br />
Awards (£14.99 from Skylark, <strong>Lewes</strong> Tourist Information<br />
Centre and Barbican House). Visit facebook.<strong>co</strong>m/<br />
slowsussex for details of walks he’s doing.<br />
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Photo: Tim Locke
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