Origins: C11th and C12thRebuilt: 1866 by S.S. TeulonListed: Grade II*Project Type: Interior Relighting ProjectProject cost: circa £100,000 ex VAT and feesCompleted: September 20042005 Lighting Design Awards: Heritage Category – CommendedCase Study No: 2006 The relighting of St Mary’s Church was part of a restoration and reordering of this splendid building by SS Teulon in the middle of the 19th Century. The lighting is theatrical in both effect and application. In …
St Mary the Virgin Painswick
Built: Origins C11th, with C14th-15th & C17th -C20th AdditionsListed: Grade ISimon Jenkins: ★ ★Project Type: Interior Relighting ProjectProject cost: £80,000 ex VAT and feesCompleted: December 2012Case Study No: 3183 Often referred to as “The Queen of the Cotswold’s”, Painswick’s narrow streets and traditional architecture make it the epitome of the English village. At its heart, St Mary’s Church, with its soaring spire is probably one of the …
St John’s Walk Hereford Cathedral
Built: C16thListed: Grade IProject Type: Interior Lighting ProjectProject cost: circa £15,000 ex VAT & FeesCompleted: February 2016Case Study No: 3525 St John’s Walk was built in the 12th Century and forms a covered walkway between the main cathedral and the cloisters who’s adjoining buildings provide the accommodation for some of the Cathedral staff and clergy. The ceiling is beautifully decorated with a series of fine and unique …
Dorchester Abbey
Origins: C11th, Additions C14th, C17th, C19thListed: Grade ISimon Jenkins: ★★★★Project Type: Interior Relighting ProjectProject cost: circa £218,000 ex VAT and feesCompleted: March 2015Case Study No: 3494 There has been a place of Christian Worship on this site for almost fourteen hundred years. The current building dates back to the 12th century (the lead font is from 1170) but has been extended and adapted throughout its life. William Butterworth …
St Mary’s Church, Thame
Origins: C13th, Additions C14th & C15thListed: Grade ISimon Jenkins: ★★Project Type: Interior Relighting ProjectProject cost: circa £74,000 ex VAT and feesCompleted: October 2015Case Study No: 3172 We are very pleased to announce the completion of a new lighting scheme at St Mary’s Church in Thame. The design replaces a theatrical halogen scheme from the 1980s with all LED downlighting in the nave, aisles and chancel. Large pendants installed in the …
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 – …