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Thought for the Day

The Deacon's 'Thought for the Day' is broadcast by the Revd. June Terry every Thursday and the Curate's 'Thought for the Day' by the Revd. Stephen Date every third and fifth Monday at 7.10am during the daily 'Good Morning Uckfield' programme on UckfieldFM.

Tune in on 105FM and visit www.uckfieldfm.co.uk for more details of the Station's programmes.

Bishop John's Farewell Service

Listen to the higlights of Bishop John of Chichester's farewell service held at Holy Cross Church. Click on the link to Uckfield FM and in the article about Bishop John's Farewell Service click on the play button at the end of the text. To view Ron Hill's photographs of this farewell Service visit the Bishop John folder in the Photo Gallery or click here.

JustTextGiving

Holy Cross Church Uckfield Upkeep Support.

The church now offers you the opportunity to contribute to the maintenance of the church by text. Please click here for more details.

Newsflash

On the 4th July 2011 the Clock mechanism was removed for a complete overhaul and conversion to automatic winding, and in mid October the Clock faces were dismantled to be repainted and regilded. (Click on Uckfieldfm to go to Holy Cross Church Clock Restoration.  See also Restoration.)  On the 9th November 2011 the Clock faces were replaced following their renovation and the Clock mechanism set in motion. For a comparison of old and new see, 'The Church Clock'.

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Welcome to the Church of the Holy Cross
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Welcome to our website for Holy Cross Church with St Saviours in Uckfield together with St Michael’s at Little Horsted and St Margaret’s at Isfield.

 

Our Churches were formally linked in the 1970’s and work together in faith and fellowship. Having visited our site we hope that you will be encouraged and inspired by what you see here and that you too will want to be part of the Mission of Christ’s Church.

 

Holy Cross, St. Saviours, St. Michael and St Margarets

 

 
May in the Year of The Lord Jesus Christ 2012 Print E-mail

PASTORAL LETTER     MAY 2012

 

By the time you read this St. George’s Day will have just gone.

A few years ago Ken Livingstone was asked why London made a big deal of St. Patrick and not St. George. Livingstone answered that St. Patrick was a historic personage whereas St. George was a corrupt Christian bishop.

He got that answer from Edward Gibbon’s ‘Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’.

Gibbon noticed that there was a Bishop George of Alexandria who had been murdered by the mob and noticed that there was a St. George who had, improbably, killed a dragon and, with the lazy elision to which thinkers of the Enlightenment were sometimes prone concluded that they were one and the same. We can’t blame Gibbon too much for his speculation; however, there are countless people over the course of antiquity, our knowledge of whom we can sum up in a couple of sentences. 

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Retirement of the Rector

 

The Church of the Holy Cross is currently in an interregnum following the retirement of the Rector. The Parish Profile and Annual Report can be viewed by following the links below

 

Parish Annual report

Parish Profile

 

Applications and further details are available from the Archdeacon, Ven. Philip Jones, at   This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 
May Nature Notes Print E-mail

 

Nature Notes

 

Warm January, cold February, warm March, and now a cold April. The monthly exchange of temperatures seems to be continuing. Maybe we will have a warm May? However, we still need more rain in Sussex.

As I am writing there is a strong wind lashing cold rain against my study windows. The weather vane is showing almost directly north. I am wearing my Arctic grade jumper that I bought in Spitsbergen.

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The Church Clock

 

The clock face as it was when removed on the 4th July 2011

Church Clock Restored – 10th November 2011.

 
Five months after the Clock was removed (on the 4th July 2011) for cleaning and overhauling, the mechanism was reinstated, and together with the repainted, and re-gilded, clock faces the town has its landmark timepiece back in action.

The restored clock face as fitted on the 9th November 2011

4th Jul 2011

12th Nov 2011

 

The clock was made in 1883 and although on the clock’s ‘setting dial’ it bears the name of a local man and the word Uckfield, it was, in fact, made by Thwaites and Reed of Clerkenwell in London.  It is typical of their design at that time and very similar to their clock in the Knightsbridge Barracks in London. The clock features dials that are unusually placed, being on the out-built mountings on the four sides of the spire.  Likewise the clock itself is also unusually mounted because it is above the bell-frame in the belfry and on a level with the base of the spire.

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