Services

There is a service every week in one of the three churches in the united benefice of Mountfield, Netherfield & Brightling [guaranteed not to last longer than 60 minutes].

At Brightling a service takes place on the 2nd Sunday of each month at 9:00 am.

Evening services are occasional and are advertised on this website, in the Messenger magazine and on the Church notice board.

You can be assured of a warm welcome and lusty singing. Common Worship is the normal form of service using traditional or modern language.

Contact details:

Fr Jeremy Sykes
Vicar of Hellingly & Upper Dicker
Priest-in-Charge of Brightling, Mountfield and Netherfield
The Vicarage, 14, Orchard Grange, Lower Dicker, HAILSHAM, East Sussex,BN27 3PA
Tel:   01323 441872
Mob: 07714 426286
email: revjeremysykes@icloud.com

The Rev’d Elly Mckay-Smith
Curate of Hellingly & Upper Dicker and of Brightling, Mountfield and Netherfield
Mob: ‭ 07485 062560‬
email: revellyjmckay@icloud.com

All enquiries about christenings, weddings and funerals, booking the church for events etc to:
The Benefice Office
Mob: 07414 856807‬
email: pafwestcott@icloud.com

The church building

St Thomas a Becket church is mentioned in the Domesday Book.

The structure today dates from the 12th century onwards and has many unusual monuments inside and a truly remarkable pyramid in the graveyard. This houses the tomb of John ‘Mad Jack’ Fuller.

At the the west end is a timber-built West Gallery which houses a working barrel organ installed in 1820.

The tower houses a peal of 8 bells that are regularly rung.