Mundham No. 2 / Mundaham / Mundhaham / Mundham Parva / Munhaham

There is a total of thirteen entries [variant spelling] for Mundham in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TM3298/mundham/] [accessed 4 March 2014], one of which mentions a church and church lands in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "Here were 2 parishes, one called St. Peter's, from its church, also in some old writings Mundham Magna; it was a rectory"; the earliest direct reference to this church In Blomefield (ibid.) appears to be the first recorded rector of it, "John occurs rector in the 14th of Edward I" [i.e., 1286]. The other church, St. Ethelbert's, appears to have been the parish church of Mundham Parva: "In the reign of Edward I. Sir Robert de Schelton, was patron of the rectory of St. Ethelbert's church of Mundham Parva, [...] had a manse, but no land", the latter detail probably suggesting that the church noted in the Domesday survey as having some land was St. Peter's. Curiously, though, the earliest specific reference in Blomefield to any church here is actually to St. Ethelbert's: "Sir Walter de Senges, lord of Seething, whose lordship extended into this town, gave by deed, sans date, to Sibeton abbey in Suffolk, lands here, to which deed Sir William de Senges, Roger de Diclebur, Robert de Hedenham, &c. were witnesses. This Sir William de Senges confirmed by his deed, sans date, about the 30th of Henry III [i.e., 1246] and we find this family to have an interest in the church. Richard de Seinges, by fine, conveyed his right in the advowson of St. Ethelbert's church, to Ralph de Schelton." Knott (2005) writes: "a little wooded copse hides the ruins of St Ethelbert [...] three pillars of flint and stone topped by shaggy outcrops of elder. Two formed the east wall either side of a window, while the third formed part of the north wall. There are surviving blocks of stone in the former east window outline, and a putlog hole to the right of it. For a building of which virtually nothing now survives, St Ethelbert has a fairly recent redundancy date of 1749. Well into the 19th century it was possible for antiquarians to date it as a largely 13th/14th century building." [cf. Index entry for Munham No. 1 for St. Peter's]