What’s On – upcoming services and events
All regular and special events are listed here (and always more to come!)
Festivals in the Church of England Year are on our Worship page.
To ask about adding an event here, email our website editor.
Our regular church services
Every Sunday, 9.45am
and
Every first Wednesday in the month, 12 noon
Our Sunday service at 9.45am is sung, with four hymns, accompanied by the organ.
Our service on the first Wednesday of every month at 12 noon is a ‘said’ service.
At both services you are welcome to take Holy Communion if you wish.
At both services we delight in using the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.
And you can come in for private prayer at any time, 8.30am-5pm, every day.
Climb the tower, see our ancient clock and bells
Saturday 13th and 27th June, 11.30am, then fortnightly, last tour 5th Sept
Our guided tour includes: introduction to church interior; climb the spiral stair to the second-oldest (1670) turret clock in Sussex; up to the belfry – lovely and very special oak bellframe dates from around 1400.
Not many belfries survive like this, and hardly any that are easily reached by stairs. Hear the big tenor bell strike twelve!
Not to be missed – only £5.
Celebrate St Thomas' Patronal Festival
Sunday 5th July, 4pm
All are welcome to this special Sung Evensong with choir for our Patron Saint, Archbishop Thomas Becket. Organist: Peter Hanson. Members of the East and West Sussex branches of the Prayer Book Society are also invited. Our singing will be supported by a volunteer choir led by David Powell. After the service there will be refreshments at the Dorset Arms.
(Our morning service will be at 9.45am as usual.)
Saint Thomas’s shrine was completed 806 years ago, on 7th July 1220, in a new chapel behind the high altar at Canterbury Cathedral, so we are delighted to hold this special service as our Patronal Festival. No charge for refreshments, retiring collection.
Climb the tower, see our ancient clock and bells
Saturday 11th and 25th July, 11.30am, then fortnightly, last tour 5th Sept
Our guided tour includes: introduction to church interior; climb the spiral stair to the second-oldest (1670) turret clock in Sussex; up to the belfry – lovely and very special oak bellframe dates from around 1400.
Not many belfries survive like this, and hardly any that are easily reached by stairs. Hear the big tenor bell strike twelve!
Not to be missed – only £5.