St Augustine of Canterbury Church, Flimwell
The Parish Church of St Augustine of Canterbury, Flimwell, is the sister church of St Mary’s Ticehurst. It has two services a month, on the second and fourth Sundays. Of particular interest at St Augustine’s is the chancel, with its mosaic panelling and beautifully carved rood screen.
Our Parishes
The civil parish of Ticehurst includes the villages of Stonegate and Flimwell and until Victorian times this also applied to the ecclesiastical parish. In the late 1830’s Stonegate and then Flimwell became Chapelry districts and were later granted full status as ecclesiastical parishes.Ticehurst and Flimwell have shared an incumbent since 1978. The relationship works well with shared activities and services combined particularly around key church festivals. Stonegate is now part of the Wadhurst incumbency.
The Church
Consecrated in 1839, the Parish Church of St Augustine of Canterbury, at Flimwell, was erected on what was then known as the Furzy Fields, and was completed in 1839.
The Church is built of stone with a slate roof, and is approached from the main road through a lych-gate. The building as originally erected was much smaller than it is today, and consisted only of what now constitutes the Nave. The Tower was only a squat, flat-roofed appendage without a spire. The shingled Spire was added in 1872 at about the same time that the present Chancel was built. The Chancel was restored in 1916 and the work included a mosaic wall, the erection of a beautiful carved Chancel screen, filling the east window with stained glass, and the construction of a large Vestry. On the north wall of the Nave are memorials to the men of the parish who gave their lives in war.
