Fuller's Pyramid
Local highlightThe stone pyramid tomb of "Mad Jack" Fuller in Brightling churchyard, one of the follies he scattered across this corner of Sussex
In the churchyard at Brightling stands a stone pyramid about 25 feet high — the mausoleum of John Fuller, a rich local squire and MP of the early 1800s known ever after as “Mad Jack”. Fuller put up follies (ornamental buildings raised for effect rather than any real use) all over this stretch of the High Weald, and the pyramid was his own tomb, finished years before he died in 1834. One story long told has him sealed inside sitting upright in a top hat with a bottle of wine, though repair work found no trace of anything of the sort. His other whims are close by, including Brightling Needle and The Sugar Loaf, and Rudyard Kipling’s old home, Batemans, is just to the north-west.
