ST MARY ABBOTS PARISH CHURCH
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Re-Lighting the Church & Spire - 150th Anniversary Project 
And then they were finished!   Just in time for our Easter Vigil Service 2023.
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Before and After
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Showing Mother Emma and the virgers how to turn the lights on. 
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Examining the new lights 

The work on the spire and tower is now complete and so the work restoring the lighting begins. 
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Boxes of new lights arrive at church and are then put up around the church and on the tower and spire.  Once more some more serious ladder and climbing skills are required! 

Before the lighting can be resurrected another aspect of maintaining the church, and a more urgent one, had to be addressed - maintenance on the tower and steeple masonry.   Work started in February 2023 and was completed at the start of March 2023. Below our intrepid head Virger Simon inspects the work!
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The dysfunctional lights are dotted around the church yard, on the sides of the building and even on the roof.  
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For the Millennium Celebrations the Friends of St Mary Abbots raised funds for the church, windows and tower to be floodlit.  As can be seen from the images below, taken in December 2022, most of these lights are no longer working.
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View from High Street Kensington. 
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From Kensington Church Street

The PCC of St Mary Abbots is a Registered Charity : Number 1132235
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  • Home
  • Services
    • Sunday & Weekday Services
    • Family Eucharist
    • Baptism Sundays
    • Healing Eucharist
    • Taize Eucharist
  • Life events
    • Weddings
    • Baptism
    • Confirmation
    • Funerals
  • What is on
    • The Clemson University Singers
    • Summer Garden Party 2023
    • Youth Summer event
    • Royal College of Music Recitals
    • Ramp Project to mark 150 years
    • Lighting up the church
    • On-line Exhibition
    • Lent Artist in Residence
  • About us
    • The Clergy & Parish Staff
    • Location
    • Vacancies
    • Mission Action Plan
    • Safeguarding
    • Gallery
    • Church Groups >
      • Homeless Ministry
      • Flower Arranger Group
    • Affiliated Groups & Charities >
      • Food Bank support
      • Glass Door support
    • Music at St Mary Abbots
    • Our Bells
    • History of St Mary Abbots >
      • Early Churches of Kensington
      • The building of our Church
      • Sir George Gilbert Scott
      • Famous residents
      • War Time Damage
      • The Cathedral-like Interior
    • PCC & Administration >
      • Annual report and financial statement
      • Electoral Roll >
        • Our Parish
      • PRIVACY NOTICE
    • Church Hire
    • St Mary Abbots Centre
  • Children
    • Children on Sunday >
      • Children's volunteers
    • Children's Choir
    • Bitesized Bible Group
    • School Eucharist
    • Mini Abbots Baby Group
    • Youth Ministry
    • Safeguarding children
  • Newsletter / Sermon
    • Sermons
    • Newsletter
    • Kensington Parish News
  • Support us
    • How to donate
    • Friends of St Mary Abbots
    • Legacy
    • Local Support