Mossley Hill Church Liverpool, UK

Lighting design

Client Light4 was commissioned by Mossley Hill Church to combination of an antique 2 x 120W RO80 reflector Mossley Hill Church design and detail a new lighting installation for the spotlights wall mounted within the rear corners of Services refurbishment of their chapel. The brief was to deliver the space. The final lighting element to be replaced Lighting design Architect a scheme which offered a variety of lighting scenes was a collection of 4x100W incandescent light bulbs Studio: Plan A to suit the multiple uses of the space. The surface mounted to the high level beams illuminating parishioners use the space for prayer meetings, the central alter. The existing load was 690W. readings, group discussion, sewing and stitching banners. The lighting design was to also deliver Cundall Light4’s design approach was to rebalance significant energy savings to the church. the space with layers of symmetrical light, picking up the key architectural elements and historic features For many years, the Church had illuminated the space which defined the architectural character of the using cheap outdoor flood and spotlight luminaires, building and space. Architecture practice Studio-e one of which was a B&Q type multi-head dichroic had previously been commissioned to design a fitting mounted to a piece of wood suspended glazed intervention wall between the main church hall against the wall. Needless to say, not only was this and chapel, providing some intimacy, thermal comfort incredibly inefficient and a complete distraction control and an acoustic separation. The lighting from the architecture of the space, the lighting was design highlighted the intervention by illuminating the imbalanced and resulted in confusing shadows monolithic pillars and vast stone arch which towered across the space, making it extremely difficult to above the glazed entrance door. use as a functional space. In addition to this was a

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Moving through into the prayer room, the central window above the altar formed a key part of the overall lighting scheme. Fundamentally, the window formed the point of symmetry from which the lighting design was developed. The principle was to highlight the window from creating the visual backdrop for the layered lighting approach. This helped to extenuate its height and grandeur of the space and ensure its symbolic nature was clearly defined. Cool white LEDs were specified for the threshold entrance arch and central window arch as they reflected each other’s form and importance.

The central alter mural was to be illuminated by a carefully integrated linear LED profile. The LEDs dramatically enhanced the murals’ brightness and visibility, improving the colour contrast of the mural artwork and creating a warm glow from within the altar.