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LightingDynamics St Marys Church1Lighting Dynamics UK, based in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, continue their development as one of the UK’s premier companies specialising in the interior and exterior illumination of cathedrals, churches and other places or worship.

One of the company’s many recently completed prestigious projects now includes the installation of new lighting at the magnificent St Mary’s Church, in Stafford town centre.

The Collegiate Church of St Mary, a Grade I listed building, has been serving Stafford for over a thousand years. St Mary’s has been at the heart of Stafford for worship and as a part of civic life during all of this time. The church currently has a variety of different uses on a weekly basis and also receives many visitors.

Company founder of Lighting Dynamics UK, Gerry Browne, says the proposed interior lighting upgrade at St Mary’s provided a real challenge, especially in terms of the correct type and levels of illumination for the church’s magnificent architectural and ecclesiastical features and the variety of different weekly uses and special events.

LightingDynamics St Marys Church6Working closely with the rector, key members of the PCC, the church architects, English Heritage and Lichfield DAC, Gerry worked through all of the details and a final lighting design solution evolved.

This final lighting design included a variety of modern, long life and energy saving light sources including LEDs, ceramic metal halide and low voltage tungsten.

A selection of the new lighting incorporates the very latest ranges of high quality single colour LED technology, especially for ‘visitation settings’. Additionally, colour change LED lighting is included for selected concerts, drama and other specific events.

LightingDynamics St Marys Church2Special attention has also been given to the ‘feature lighting’ of many of St Mary’s splendid interior items, including but not limited to, the nave and chancel ceilings, the organ pipes and the font – the oldest object in the church and believed to have been brought there from the Crusades – as well as the memorial of Izaak Walton, one of Stafford’s famous sons.

In a number of locations the wonderful stone architecture has also been featured and highlighted which really shows off the interior fabric of the building.

The above light sources are all incorporated within a quality range of appropriate architectural light fittings, all with the correct optics and the ability to take a complete range of lighting accessories, such as anti glare louvres, spread lenses, etc.

All of the new lighting is linked to a unique and bespoke dimming / lighting control system which can be operated from a number of different wall mounted keypad control panels, positioned at strategic locations within the building.

The rector, Reverend Preb. Graham Fowell, commented that everybody is thrilled with the new lighting at St Mary’s and the completed project and electrical installation has well exceeded everybody’s expectations.
Lighting Dynamics has a significant number of very prestigious church lighting projects currently in progress with a large number at advanced stages of planning and design.

Gerry Browne believes that this is a very exciting time in the further development of church lighting, especially with such a great and diverse range of modern light sources now coming on stream.

He has found that customers are increasingly looking for someone with the flair and experience to provide a quality lighting design, whilst also specifying top grade lighting equipment and controls that will provide longevity, reliability and overall flexibility for their respective ecclesiastical project.

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