St Matthew's Church : Hayfield

St Matthews Church Hayfield Is not of High Church tradition it's a low Church tradition. Recently they inducted a new vicar in April.

Welcoming living church in a lively old building great facilities and rooms for hire.

The village of Hayfield is a cool sightseeing place, worth visiting..

Lovely church

Lovely church and Hayfield village was beautiful to visit

Lovely old church.

I never visited this church but I did hear it because every 15 minutes of every day and night the church plays a little jingle. A very loud little jingle. This happens throughout the night. Why?

It is so people can tell the time? Don’t they know about Clocks/Watches/Phones?

Is it for tradition? Could they perhaps find a less obnoxious way to celebrate tradition? Perhaps only playing the jingles during daylight hours.

I guess the locals must either be used to it or have moved away because they can’t get a wink of sleep. If you’re a tourist it’s an absolute nightmare - lying in bed counting down the 15 minutes until the next jingle.

Maybe it’s true purpose is to keep the tourists away: I won’t be coming back, at least not staying overnight

The bells go off on a long, loud jingle every 15 minutes and are in desperate need of tuning. They never stop, even at night. I certainly would think twice about coming back to stay in Hayfield. Anyone left here must either be deaf or unable to leave (and unable to sleep).