The suite of rooms, designed by John Shaw in the 1830’s, needed refurbishment. Our outline designs would create equal access, toilets, a fully equipped kitchen and a meeting room.

We also seek to subdivide a room with a new joinery and glazed screen to create a vestry and church office. Historic fabric would be repaired, new electrical, heating and hot water services and the portraits cleaned and lit.

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Since 2001 numerous projects have been undertaken at the grade II* listed Central Hall in Westminster, which is a thriving church and a successful conference centre. These projects have included:

• Interior refurbishment projects comprising stone and marble cleaning, new colour schemes, restoration of light fittings, repairs and French polishing of paneling;
• Creation of the Chapel as a day-to-day place of worship;
• Health and safety upgrades, such as the insertion of contemporary detailed fire screens, upgrading of doors for fire resistance and the installation of barriers to roof edges;
• Providing equal access by the automation of doors, forming new lift shafts and platform lifts, automated stage lifts, induction loops and the creation of toilets;
• Energy efficiency projects replacing tungsten and halogen lamps with low energy flexible lighting schemes.

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We are frequently involved in providing new facilities, whether enabling equal access to entrances and within churches, providing toilets, new teaspaces, kitchens and storage cupboards or assisting with induction loops, audio systems, relighting and heating systems.

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The first and second phases of the masterplan realised new exterior doors and porch gates and the creation of multi-use rooms for church and community use to the first floor of the west end with toilets to the ground floor. The third phase provided a further multi-use room and a kitchen behind an oak and walnut panelled screen with fixed glass panels set in bronze.

Featured in The Victorian ‘Church reordering, In search of good practice’ July 2016; Church Building and Heritage Review Church Building and Heritage Review September/October 2015 and also January/February 2016.

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Interior decoration and conservation work to the main transepts, the seventeenth century Quire and side aisles undertaken in limewash, distemper and lime plaster repairs.

Repair of the early twelfth century clerestory to the Chapel of St Thomas with lime mortar to replace modern plaster and limewashing. Re-gilding and cleaning of Nicholson’s tester.

Refurbishment of the main entrance works with new automated south doors with contemporary engraved glass panels and internally a new stone ramp with blacksmith made handrails with brass caps to improve the accessible and every-day entrance. The project was tightly managed to ensure completion within a very tight timescale to enable Easter worship.

Published in Church Building and Heritage Review magazine September/October 2015.

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