Built: Origins C18th, Thomas ArcherListed: Grade IProject Type: Interior Relighting Project Project cost: circa £200,000.00 ex VAT & FeesCompleted: December 2015Case Study No: 3226 Built in 1715 as the new parish church “on the hill”, St Philip’s is a rare and fine example of elegant English Baroque architecture. Designed by It is Grade 1 listed and one of the oldest buildings in the city still used for its …
St Joseph & the English Martyrs, Bishop Stortford
Built: C20th by Dran WebbProject Type: Interior Relighting ProjectProject cost: circa £120,000 ex VAT & FeesCompleted: Novemeber 2016Case Study No: 3413 St Joseph’s Church in Bishop Stortford is a handsome Italianate church built for the Redemptorist order in Italian basilican style from designs by E. Doran Webb 1904 and consecrated in 1906. The church retains many internal fittings of note, some of them paid for …
St Peter’s Church, Hammersmith
Built: C19th by Edward LapidgeListed: Grade II*Project Type: Interior Relighting ProjectProject cost: circa £130,000 ex VAT & FeesCompleted: September 2016Case Study No: 3329 St Peter’s Church is a grade II* listed building built in 1827 by Edward Lapidge. It has a classical pedimented portico with large Ionic columns and a pilastered octagonal tower with cupola and clock. The Interior has a large gallery on three sides …
Holy Trinity Church Waterhead
Built: 1847Listed: Grade IIProject Type: Internal Relighting ProjectProject cost: circa £15,000 ex VAT & FeesCompleted: June 2016Case Study No: 3587 The new lighting at Holy Trinity Church, Waterhead is a simple combination of elegance and practicality. The church has been lit with pendants throughout almost all of its history. The new scheme follows this precedent; replacing small, underpowered domestic looking shades with larger, more effective Victorian …
Tower of London White Tower Staircase
Built: C11th rebuilt 1973 but removed in 2015Listed: Grade IProject Type: Exterior Lighting ProjectCompleted: May 2016Case Study No: 3531 Entry to the White Tower and the fabulous Crown Jewels Exhibition is via an external staircase to the first floor, the double-width timber construction has recently been replaced with a new green-oak staircase hewn from fifty English oak trees from a South Oxfordshire woodland. To provide …
The Priory Church Bolton Abbey
Built: C12th, C14th & C16thListed: Grade ISimon Jenkins: ★★★★Project Type: Interior Relighting ProjectProject cost: circa £110,000 ex VAT & FeesCompleted: July 2016Case Study No: 3504 The Priory Church at Bolton Abbey sits in the beautiful surroundings of the Bolton Abbey Estate owned by the Duke of Devonshire. The current Church occupies what was only the nave of the once grand mediaeval Priory complex and sits amongst the ruins. …
St Mary’s Church Chalgrove
Built: C13thListed: Grade IProject Type: Interior Relighting ProjectProject cost: circa £85,000 ex VAT & FeesCompleted: April 2016Case Study No: 3015 The chancel of St. Mary’s is decorated with a near complete set of medieval wall paintings, originating around 1320AD probably commissioned by the de Barantyn family who lived in Chalgrove. They were lime washed during the Reformation and rediscovered in 1858. The paintings are of national …
Hereford Cathedral
Built: Origins C11th with additions completed C16thListed: Grade IProject Type: Interior Relighting ProjectProject cost: circa £800,000 ex VAT & FeesCompleted: May 2015Case Study No: 3435 There has been a place of worship on the site since at least the 8th century although no part of the earliest building survives. Today’s cathedral is, in essence, a 12th-century Romanesque church to which later features have been added – …
St George the Martyr Shirley
Built: C20th by J L DenmanListed: Not ListedProject Type: Interior Relighting ProjectProject cost: circa £66,000 ex VAT and feesCompleted: March 2014Case Study No: 3390 St George’s Church, surprisingly unlisted, was built to meet the spiritual needs of the local community in this suburb of Croydon which expanded greatly in the middle of the twentieth Century. The church is open and inviting with elaborate vaulting for a …
Chapel Royal of St Peter Ad Vincula The Tower of London
Built: C16th Restored C19thListed: Grade IProject Type: Interior Relighting ProjectProject cost: circa £150,000 ex VAT and feesCompleted: September 2014Case Study No: 3485 The Tower of London is one of the ten most popular tourist attractions in the UK. The Chapel of St Peter Ad Vincula sits at its historic heart and is one of only a few churches that are classed as a “Royal Peculiar”– meaning …