St John the Divine Kennington

Light Perceptions

Built: 1870-74 by G.E. Street; Restored: 1958 by H S Goodhart-RendelListed: Grade IProject Type: Interior Relighting ProjectProject cost: circa £95,000 ex VAT and feesCompleted: 2002-2003Case Study No: 2004 St John the Divine is one of the larger Victorian of the Diocese of Southwark. It also has the tallest spire of any parish church in South London. The interior suffered terrible smoke damage over the New Year …

St Michael at the North Gate Oxford

Light Perceptions

Origins: C11th, C13th-C15th additions. C19th Restoration by GE Street.Listed: Grade IProject Type: Interior Relighting ProjectProject cost: circa £71,000 ex VAT and feesCompleted: September 2012Case Study No: 3279 St Michael at the North Gate is the City Church in Oxford. The church is so-called because this is the location of the original north gate of Oxford when it was surrounded by a city wall. Originally built around …

St John the Baptist Axbridge

Light Perceptions

Origins: C15th, rebuilt C17thListed: Grade ISimon Jenkins: ★★★Project Type: Interior Relighting ProjectProject cost: circa £67,000 ex VAT and feesCompleted: December 2011Case Study No: 3241 St John’s Church is a picture postcard historic church in this pretty Somerset market town. The new lighting scheme was conceived using the existing, but rather small, nave pendants as a key to the new design. In the new scheme the original pendants …

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 …

Our Lady of Dolours Servite Parish Church, London

Light Perceptions

Built: 1875 by J.A. HansomListed: Grade IIProject Type: Interior Relighting ProjectProject cost: £95,000 ex VAT and feeCompleted: July 2011Case Study No: 3284 This project, completed in 2011, was part of a larger cleaning and repairs project aimed at rejuvenating this large Victorian interior designed by J. A. Hanson. A new set of chandeliers carrying the motif of the Order of the Servite Martyrs was designed to …

Carlisle Cathedral (PH III) Cumbria

Light Perceptions

Origins: C12th, restored C18th & C19thListed: Grade IProject Type: Lighting Project (Choir Aisles)Installation cost: circa £85,000 ex VAT and feesCompleted: July 2012Case Study No: 3342 This project formed the third and final phase of the relighting of one of the most beautiful cathedrals in the north of England. With the nave and west end already lighting projects complete, Light Perceptions was commissioned to relight the choir aisles …