page_title: Burgess Hill
section_title: Religion
hierarchical_section_title: Burgess Hill / Religion
caption_attribution_description: St. John the Evangelist's church, Burgess Hill, West Sussex, seen from the west.
context_page_description: Burgess Hill is a town and civil parish located in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England, close to the border with East Sussex, on the edge of the South Downs National Park. Located 39 mi south of London, 10 mi north of Brighton and Hove, and 29 mi east-northeast of the county town of Chichester, it occupies an area of 3.7 sq mi and had a population of 30,635 at the time of the 2011 Census, making it the fourth most populous parish in the county and the most populous in the district. Other nearby towns include Haywards Heath to the North East and Lewes, the County town of East Sussex, to the South East.
  Burgess Hill is predominantly situated just on the West Sussex side of the border dividing the two counties, although parts of the World's End district in the North East are across the county boundary in the Lewes district of East Sussex.
  Burgess Hill is twinned with Schmallenberg in Germany and Abbeville in France. It has recently achieved the status of being a Fairtrade Town. Burgess Hill Town Council was awarded the status of Town Council of the Year 2006.
context_section_description: There are several churches in Burgess Hill, including;
  All Saints United Reformed Church
  Burgess Hill (Gateway) Baptist Church
  Methodist Church
  Mid-Sussex Christian Centre
  Sheddingdean Baptist Church
  St Andrew's Church (Anglican)
  St Edward's Church (Anglican)
  St John the Evangelist's Church (the Anglican parish church)
  St Wilfrid's Church, Roman Catholic
  The King's Church (Newfrontiers)
  The Point Fresh Expression Church (Anglican)
  Burgess Hill is also home to the International Bible Training Institute which founded Mid-Sussex Christian Centre, formally Burgess Hill Pentecostal Church.
  Providence Strict Baptist Chapel, one of many former Strict Baptist chapels in Sussex, closed in 1999 after 124 years of religious use. The Grade II-listed Neoclassical building was designed by Simeon Norman in 1875.
caption: St John the Evangelist's Church
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