Name: St Thomas à Becket Church and Fuller Family Pyramid, Brightling
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Location: Brightling, Rother, East Sussex, South East England, England, United Kingdom

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1. Mad Jack's Sugarloaf loop — High Weald

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2. Mad Jack Fuller's Tower loop from Brightling

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3. Mad Jack Fuller's Tower loop from Brightling

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Benjamin

July 15, 2023

The oldest sections of the church date from the 13th century, but the upper sections of the embattled tower are 14th century.

Evidence of the John Fullers generosity is everywhere: in the barred organ he installed, the memonals he commissioned to Dr Prmrose Bair and William Shield, and the peal of eight bells that Mad Jack had cast to commemorate Wellington's battle victories hanging in the church tower. The nine bassoons he is alleged to have donated to the church choir nave have now disappeared.

JakobusPilger

May 9, 2025

The patronage of this church—dedicated to Saint Thomas of Canterbury—takes us back in time to the 12th century and geographically to southeastern England. Thomas Becket (born 1118) was Archbishop of Canterbury and, in the dispute between the Church and the Crown (King Henry II), a "martyr of canon law and ecclesiastical freedom," as Pope Alexander III put it on the occasion of his canonization (1173, just three years after Thomas's violent death). His feast day in the calendar of saints is December 29th.

Canterbury Cathedral, where he was murdered in 1170 and which contains his tomb, can be visited virtually in the komoot system at the following link =>> komoot.com/de-de/highlight/231266

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Location: Brightling, Rother, East Sussex, South East England, England, United Kingdom

St Thomas à Becket Church and Fuller Family Pyramid, Brightling

1. Mad Jack's Sugarloaf loop — High Weald

2. Mad Jack Fuller's Tower loop from Brightling

3. Mad Jack Fuller's Tower loop from Brightling

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