These improvements included and new accessible wc, tea-station and two meeting rooms. Following extensive consultations with the local community, DAC and other heritage bodies and due to the particular circumstances of this church, it was decided to create these in a new extension taking on the form of a north-aisle which could be linked internally to both the nave and the existing vestry. This unusual solution was executed with great care in terms of its form, massing, materiality and in particular its relationship to the existing north wall of the nave where the design of the extension incorporated a pair of diminutive lightwells that would allow natural light to continue accessing the two north wall windows.

The project also involved extensive use of bespoke internal joinery with oak and glazed elements to form doorways, screens and partitions creating the necessary links and separations to meet the client’s requirements in an elegant manner that sits comfortably in the ancient setting of the church interior.