Come to enjoy Sunday service

Welcome to St Thomas à Becket Church, a place of Christian worship to Almighty God since at least the 12th century. Open every day, with Sunday sung Eucharist service at 9.45am, St Thomas’ is always ready to welcome you to the presence of God. Take a little time amid the busyness of daily life – be refreshed and renewed in peace.

The Trinity season
Our Vicar writes:
Dear Friends,
We’re now in the long Trinity season of ‘Ordinary Time’.

• Following Easter, we celebrated the Ascension of the risen Christ to the right hand of God the Father in Heaven, where he is evermore to make intercession for us all.
• Then we celebrated Pentecost or Whit Sunday with the sending of God the Holy Spirit to be with us in his presence.
• Finally, on Trinity Sunday, we celebrated the unified and glorious Trinity of God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit – so we are now in the church calendar’s Trinity season.

This year we also celebrate the 1700th anniversary of the Nicene Creed of our faith, formed from the great Council of Nicaea in AD 325. All three Creeds of the church – the Apostles’ Creed, the Nicene Creed and the Athanasian Creed – unify and recite the foundations of our Christian faith and include those principles above of the Trinity, which we have just been celebrating.
2025 is also the 950th anniversary of the re-founding of Christian mission in our diocese of Sussex to the Saxons and Southern England.
The Christian Creeds, with their statements of faith, have sustained Christians down through the centuries for nearly two Millennia and continue now in our own age.
Therefore, let us continue in this season of Trinity (‘ordinary time’ in the church’s calendar), comforted, and knowing we are in the presence of our extraordinary risen, ascended and glorified God.
With very best wishes and love, Fr Herbert

• For private prayer, and to visit, the church is open every day.  From April to October 2025 we open at 8.30am and close at 5pm; from October to end March 8.30am to 3pm.
• We have a range of worship and social activities – see What’s On. Or pick up our free monthly Parish News.

Enjoy this oasis of calm and tranquillity, whether for a service, a visit, meditation, or private prayer.