St Mary the Virgin, Brighstone

St Mary’s is a family-friendly church, fully-accessible for wheelchair, mobility scooter and buggy users!   Toilet and kitchen facilities enable us to offer the church for community use and we regularly host a variety of fund-raising concerts for local charities.  Together with our sister churches we fund provision of outreach workers for isolated members of our community, and children and young people.  We extend a warm invitation to you to join us for worship, or any other parish activities.  If you enjoy or would like to try singing, handbell ringing, change ringing or play a musical instrument, please see the music page for more details and contact information.  To find out more about what is current in our church, please click on the following links which will take you to our newsletter:

St Mary’s Autumn 2015 Cover

St Mary’s Autumn 2015 Inside

We very much appreciate all the support that individuals are able to offer. If you are able to contribute by way of regular giving please complete the form here.

A place of significant history – three former Rectors have become Bishops; saintly hymn writer Thomas Ken, Samuel Wilberforce (the youngest son of William Wilberforce) and George Moberly.

In Brighstone we seek to serve our village community by providing a variety of worship styles, using the Prayer Book (BCP), Common Worship (CW), as well as less structured styles of worship.

Here’s what the mystery worshiper had to say about St Mary’s

Enjoy these photos of the churchyard in early spring