17th November, 2024
We launched our appeal for £20,000 to finance the installation of two new, efficient infra-red heating chandeliers in the Nave in June and were delighted and astonished to have raised £15,000 of this by the end of August. This rapid response enabled us to go ahead and order the manufacture of the chandeliers which were delivered and installed at the end of October 2024.

The chandeliers were used for the first time for our Remembrance Sunday Matins service on 10th November and were then formally welcomed at a celebratory Choral Evensong on Sunday 17th November led by the ever-ebullient Revd Nick Scott (pictured above.) With £16,800 of our target now safely in the bank we hope to complete the fund-raising post hoc over the next few months.

Since the removal of the rood screen and the re-joining of the Chancel and the Nave, more of our congregation sit in the Nave and these infra-red heaters now heat the congregation without having to heat the whole volume of the Nave space, thus saving electricity costs and helping in some small way to fulfill the church’s “net zero” commitment.