The Parish Church of St Thomas A Becket is a Grade I listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1961. A C13 and C14 (13th and 14th centuries) Church.
The Parish Church of St Thomas A Becket
- WRENN ID
- still-bracket-swallow
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Bexhill and Battle MP: Dr Kieran Mullan (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1961
- Type
- Church
- Address
- The Parish Church of St Thomas A Becket, the Street, Brightling
- OS grid reference
- TQ 683 210
- Coordinates
- 50.96386, 0.39611
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Parish Church of St Thomas a Becket is a Grade I listed building located in Brightling. The church features a chancel, a north chapel, a nave with a north aisle, a south porch, and a west tower. The chancel, north chapel, nave, and the lower part of the tower date back to the 13th century, while the north aisle and the upper part of the tower were built in the 14th century. The south porch was added in 1749. Inside, there is an 18th-century west gallery that houses a Gothic barrel organ, which was given by 'Mad Jack' Fuller around 1810.
Local climate
The Parish Church of St Thomas A Becket receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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