Holy Trinity Church

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Cuckfield Parish Council has listed a range of local activities and events that enable you to choose something that suits you. Below are some of the local activities already in place. The parish council is acting as a hub and will assist you with other contacts.

Lunch 'n' Linger
On the last Thursday of every month at Holy Trinity Church
pa@holytrinitycuckfield.org

Silver Sundays, Tuesday tea afternoons, Christmas hampers
Cuckfield Parish Council
clerk@cuckfield.gov.uk
01444 454 276
See Cuckfield Life’s info page on Silver Sunday events here.

Friday coffee mornings, occasional lunches, golden years events
Baptist Church
office@cuckfieldbc.com
01444 473 531

Volunteers assist with shopping, hospital visits and home visits
Good Neighbours CARE
careinhaywardsheath.co.uk
01444 455 955

Cuckoo Choir
Friday afternoons at the Old School
info@cuckoochoir.org.uk

Friday Christmas Lunch
Independent State of Cuckfield
info@cuckfieldstate.org
01444 454 336

Christmas church services around Cuckfield

Welcome to Cuckfield Life’s churches of Cuckfield Christmas services event page. Here you will find our most recent information for everything Christmas in our churches.

See also, Cuckfield Baptist Church, Holy Trinity, Cuckfield

Cuckfield Baptist Church

office@cuckfieldbc.com
01444 473531
www.cuckfieldbaptistchurch.com

Sunday 8th December - 6pm
Carols by candlelight

Saturday 21st December - 4pm
Family Nativity Service

Wednesday 25th December - 10.30am
Christmas Day services

Holy Trinity Church, Cuckfield

01444 456461
www.holytrinitycuckfield.org

Sunday 8th December – 9.45am
“Worship for All” Toy Service * Celebrate the gift of giving by donating toys for children in need

Sunday 8th December – 6pm
Inspiring Angels & Evergreens - A Community Carol Service * Sing carols among the sparkling trees at the Christmas Tree Festival

Wednesday 11th December – 9pm at St Mary Magdalene, Bolney
Sung Compline for Advent A quiet, candlelit service of prayer and stillness at the close of the day

Sunday 22nd December – 6pm
Candlelit Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols Our most traditional carol service. Experience the Christmas story through traditional scripture and song, followed by festive refreshments

Wednesday 18th December – 9pm
Sung Compline for Advent A quiet, candlelit service of prayer and stillness at the close of the day

Christmas Eve 24th December
Crib Service at 2.30pm & 4pm *
A lively, family-friendly retelling of the Nativity Booking is essential, please visit our website www.holytrinitycuckfield.org/cuckfield-christmas-2024

Christmas Eve 24th December
Midnight Mass at 11.15pm - A moving celebration of Christ’s birth

Christmas Day 25th December – 9.45am
“Worship for All” Christmas Eucharist” A joyful Christmas morning service for all ages with carols and communion

Monday 6th January – 7pm
Epiphany Choral Eucharist Mark the visit of the Magi with beautiful choral music and a special supper afterwards

* Particularly suitable for Children and Families

Cuckfield's Holy Trinity Church gets a facelift

Scaffolding has been a regular feature around Holy Trinity Church over the years and villagers and visitors alike will be greeted by its appearance once again for about three months from now until November. The stonework of the building is Wealden Sandstone and is therefore, subject to the weather that we all know to be getting more extreme. Churches across Sussex are built of this stone sourced from the quarry at West Hoathly and though resilient (some date back in part over 1000 years) it decays and becomes damp internally when surrounded by modern cement mortar.

Four years ago a survey at our beautiful Church revealed a considerable amount of wear and tear and a more recent one has shown that repairs are now urgent. The work is intended to be a ‘once in a generation’ scheme to remove the cement mortar and repair or replace severely decayed stones where necessary, repointing the stonework with a more compatible lime mortar.

Architects for the project are Cowan Architects Ltd based in East Grinstead and Jonathan Cerowski told us: “It is a pleasure to act as the Inspecting Architect for Holy Trinity. Over the past few years I have been working closely with the Churchwardens to develop a scheme of repair works to address the condition of the stonework to prevent further decay and to protect the public from falling masonry. The works which are about to commence will ensure the long-term future of the external walls of the church, whilst still keeping the lovely existing patina of the stonework.”

The contractors are DBR Southern based in Worthing, part of DBR London Limited, specialists in masonry conservation whose recent work includes the Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace, The Royal Pavilion in Brighton, Chichester Cathedral and St Nicholas’ Church, Worth.

Assembling the funding for such a major project has taken a lot of time and effort and Fr. Michael has expressed his grateful thanks to: The Friends of Holy Trinity Church, Cuckfield; Local Donors; The Ernest Kleinwort Charitable Trust; The Garfield Weston Foundation; The Sussex Historic Churches Trust; The Wolfson Foundation through the National Churches Trust; The Allchurches Trust; The Dept of Culture Media & Sport through the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme Work commences on Monday 19th July with a completion date of 22nd November and services will not be interrupted despite entry to the Church through the west door being restricted.