Opening
The church is normally open during daylight hours. Please note that as there is no electric light the church may be locked early on winter days.
Getting here
Welcome to the tiny church of Wiggonholt. We are one of the four churches that serve the tiny parishes of Amberley, Greatham, Parham and Wiggonholt in the Wildbrooks Benefice of West Sussex.
Our hamlets and villages are set in a stunning part of the South Downs, flanked by the River Arun and include woodland, the huge floodplain of the Wildbrooks and the downlands too. Our whole benefice is in part of the newly created National Park of the South Downs.
But we’re more than pretty houses and pretty churches in a pretty part of the country. We’re proud to be Christians and belong to a faith and a tradition that goes back centuries.
We do not know when the first church was built here in Wiggonholt — we suspect it was around 1100 — and our tiny unrestored building occurred during the so-called Saxo-Norman overlap when Anglo-Saxon architecture was giving way to the Norman style.
The agricultural community that Wiggonholt used to serve are no longer here, the parish consists of a scattering of houses, but the church stands as a quiet, reflective haven of faith for those that appreciate the setting and traditional values found in the Book of Common Prayer. We hold services twice a month and if there is a fifth Sunday in the month we join in fellowship with the other congregations in the benefice.
Church Lane
Wiggonholt
Pulborough
RH20 2EQ
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