Welcome to St Augustine’s Church, Scaynes Hill

Photograph of Saint Augustine’s Church as viewed from Church Road, Scaynes Hill

St. Augustine’s viewed
from the east

This is the website of the parish church of Saint Augustine of Canterbury in the village of Scaynes Hill in West Sussex.

We have a new page of updates and news items that fit outside the ordinary run of services. Find out about them on the Keeping You Updated page!

We are a part of the Church of England Diocese of Chichester, and our village is a few miles east of Haywards Heath, and south–east of Lindfield, at the eastern edge of West Sussex. We meet for holy communion every Sunday at eight o’clock and at half past nine, with an all–age service at eleven o’clock on the first Sunday of each month and an evening service at half past six on the second Sunday of each month. There is also a eucharist at half past ten on most Thursday mornings.

We are family–friendly and have an active children’s church on Sundays, though this takes a break during the school summer holidays. We also have youth groups for our slightly older young members, which again take a break during the summer. An after-school club runs on Mondays during term-time for primary school children at St Augustine’s CEP School.

For our adult members, Home Groups are organised at various times throughout the year, we hold a women’s meeting, the Riverside Fellowship, and there are both men’s and women’s Saturday breakfasts, with speakers, from time to time.

Our building is neither very old nor especially architecturally distinguished, but it has an interesting history of dual use (which was largely what led to its being granted grade 2 listed building status in 2006), some attractive stained glass, and a magnificent tapestry, which is such an attraction that we run special tapestry teas to show it off. More importantly, it offers an intimate setting where parishioners and others can worship God as part of a Christian community.

We are engaged in raising funds to construct an annexe to the church building, so as to furnish it with facilities, such as a church hall, that are currently lacking.

As well as our local concerns in Scaynes Hill, with the Churches Together in Haywards Heath and District, and with the other Anglican churches and organisations further afield in the Chichester Diocese, we have links with a number of churches in the Province of West Africa, through IDWAL, the Inter–Diocesan West Africa Link, in which Canon Mark Payne, our Priest in Charge has been active for some time.

For further information, please select the appropriate links from the site navigation menu. If you want to know what we do, or are at all interested in coming to one (or more!) of our services, you may find the Visitors link a good place to start. To learn when our church services take place, choose Service Times from the navigation menu, and to learn what these services are, choose How We Worship. For information about the history of the church, pick the Building link. Our tapestry is important enough to have a link to itself. The Scaynes Hill menu item will lead to a page not only about the village of Scaynes Hill but the local church and civil parishes. If you wish to be kept up to date with any news about the Church, you may find it useful to subscribe to our RSS feed.