St James’ Church Clapham

Light Perceptions

Built: 1957-58 by N F Cachemaille-DayListed: Grade IISimon Jenkins:  ★Project Type: Interior Relighting ProjectProject cost: circa £48,900 ex VAT and feesCompleted: January 2008Case Study No: 3118 The new lighting at St James’ Church retained the original 1950’s pendants which were restored with the aid of a grant from English Heritage. This is a simple yet most elegant lighting scheme which is entirely in sympathy with the modern …

The Crypt Chapel Sheffield Cathedral

Light Perceptions

Built: C20thListed: Grade IProject Type: Interior Relighting ProjectProject cost: circa £27,000 ex VAT & FeesCompleted: July 2016Case Study No: 3585 The Crypt Chapel lies to the north of the main body of the Cathedral below St George’s Regimental Chapel. It receives little daylight – except from the entrance steps and therefore relies almost entirely on the new artificial lighting. Carefully designed fittings are fixed to the …

Chapel of the Holy Spirit Sheffield Cathedral

Light Perceptions

Built: C20thListed: Grade IProject Type: Interior Relighting ProjectProject cost: circaCompleted: July 2016Case Study No: 3585 The Chapel of the Holy Spirit lies with its entrance opposite to the Crypt Chapel and benefits from daylight on three sides from tall slim windows. The new lighting here provides improved reading light to the fixed collegiate stalls and greater spotlighting to the Altar and reredos. Uplighting from fittings positioned …

St Andrew’s Church Oxshott

Light Perceptions

Built: 1911Listed: Not ListedProject Type: Interior Relighting ProjectProject cost: circa £70,000 ex VAT and feesCompleted: 2015Case Study No: 3436 St Andrews was built at the start of the C20th as the villages in this part of Surrey steadily expanded. Today it is a lively and popular church, very much at the heart of the local community. The new lighting has replaced a set of 1950s pendants …

St Joseph & the English Martyrs, Bishop Stortford

Light Perceptions

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 George the Martyr Shirley

Light Perceptions

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 …

Wakefield Cathedral Phase II

Light Perceptions

Built: C12th-C20thListed: Grade IProject Type: Interior Relighting ProjectProject cost: circa £175,000 ex VAT & FeesCompleted: April 2016Case Study No: 3472 Following the successful completion of the relighting of the nave and aisles of Wakefield Cathedral in March 2013, Light Perceptions continued working at Wakefield with the installation of the second phase of work in the East End of the Cathedral. Continuing the broad concept of …

The Friary Church of St Francis and St Anthony, Crawley

Light Perceptions

Built: 1959 by H.S. Goodhart-RendelListed: Grade IIProject Type: Interior Relighting ProjectProject cost: circa £70,000 ex VAT and feesCompleted: 2009Case Study No: 3148 This is one of Goodhart-Rendel’s finest buildings. The new lighting scheme, part of an overall re-ordering of the interior to celebrate its 50th anniversary, included a fine set of reproduction pendants, carefully recreated from photographs of the opening days of the Friary. Carefully positioned spotlighting …

St Michael’s Cathedral Coventry

Light Perceptions

Built: 1962 by Sir Basil SpenceListed: Grade IProject Type: Interior Relighting and Rewiring ProjectProject cost: circa £130,000 ex VAT and feesCompleted: April 2010Case Study No: 3160 St Michael’s is one of the few Cathedral’s built after the introduction of electric light. Basil Spence and his engineers gave careful consideration to the use of artificial lighting and established clever positions for luminaires so that the building could …