Renewing St Thomas’s – making it flexible to serve the city community
What we have done so far:
- Replaced the pews with moveable benches and chairs
- Installed a new nave altar and communion rails
- Installed modular and demountable staging
- Improved the nave heating system
- Installed more electrical circuits and points in the nave
- Installed new storage facilities in the young people’s area
- Installed a new font
- Expanded storage facilities to declutter the church
Slide show: Here are some photos of the renewal work.
A poultice was used to leach out accumulated soiling and stains from the base of the nave pillars
Photo credits ©: Peter Horwood, Steve Hoffman
We still need to:
- Improve the access and safety of disabled visitors at the west entrance
- Renovate and expand the existing toilet facilities
- Install new lighting systems that enhance the church’s historical assets
- Install a new sound system
- Install a digital information and communications system
