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The Brightling Church pyramid stands as a remarkable monument. This unique structure, commissioned by Mad Jack Fuller, captures attention with its intriguing design. Nestled at the back of the churchyard, it impressively rises above the surrounding gravestones.
Jack Fuller's pyramid is a 25 foot (7.62 m) high mausoleum that he had built in 1811,twenty-three years before his death.
It is said that Mad Jack was buried in the Pyramid, sitting up eating a chicken leg and drinking his favourite tipple, a glass of port, this was proved untrue when the pyramid was renovated in 1982.
The original village pub was the 'Green Man' and it stood directly outside the entrance to the church on the corner in the village. When Mad Jack approached the vicar to get permission to build the pyramid mausoleum, the vicar only gave permission if Jack paid to move the pub to a new position at Oxley Green about 1/2 mile away from the church. This was to prevent the congregation and bell ringers escaping from the long sermon's to the pub for a drink, then returning towards the end so hearing the end.
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