Hardham, W Sussex - St. Botolph's Church -Adam & Eve wall painting - Dixon 70s

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• Picture / Image:  St. Botolph's, Hardham, West Sussex - Adam and Eve 12th century wall paintings
• Publisher:  J Arthur Dixon (L6/SP 5440)
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Hardham is a small village in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It is on the A29 road 1.2 miles (2 km) southwest of Pulborough.

The village is on the line of Stane Street Roman road,^[1] which changes direction here, leaving the modern A29 road which has followed it from Capel, to head south west to Bignor and Chichester. The Sussex Greensand Way from Lewes joined Stane Street here and remains of a Roman way station or mansio have been found.^[2]

The Church of England parish church or St Botolph has some of the oldest surviving wall paintings in the country, including an image of Saint George at the Siege of Antioch in AD 1097.

The paintings date from the early 12th century. They survived by being covered by plaster until uncovered in 1866.^[3]

The painters used colours made from locally available materials — red and yellow ochre, lime white, carbon black and a green from copper carbonate.

The paintings are in two tiers on each wall and originally had inscriptions describing the scenes above them. One if these can still be seen on the east wall of the nave.^[4]

The themes of the paintings are Adam and Eve, the life of Christ, the Judgment and the Apocalypse, and the Labours of the Months.

St Botolph's Church is the Church of England parish church of Hardham, West Sussex. It is in Horsham District and is a Grade I listed building. It contains the earliest nearly complete series of wall paintings in England.^[1] Among forty individual subjects is the earliest known representation of St. George in England.^[2] Dating from the 12th century, they were hidden from view until uncovered in 1866 and now ""provide a rare and memorable impression of a medieval painted interior"".^[3] The simple two-cell stone building, with its original medieval whitewashed exterior, has seen little alteration and also has an ancient bell.

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city/ region=hardham

period=post-war (1945 - present)

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size=continental/ modern (150x100mm)