The Project
St Margaret’s sought to improve sound quality for services and concerts, integrate projection for community and youth events, and establish live-streaming for home-bound parishioners.
Challenges & Objectives
• Historic Constraints: Stone pillars, vaulted ceilings, and sensitive architectural features limited mounting options
• Poor Intelligibility: Speech was difficult to understand in side aisles and rear pews
• Mixed-Use Needs: Venue hosts classical concerts, school assemblies, and community events alongside worship
• Discreet Integration: AV system needed to blend into the historic aesthetic and require minimal ongoing operation
Solution Overview
- Sound coverage of nave, aisles and choir area, for speech and music use - custom-painted loudspeakers; enhanced by new compact subwoofer speakers, and choir speakers
- Seamless projection for special services and concerts
- Range of wireless (headset and handheld/lectern), and wired mics for various uses
- Separate digital mixer for worship band – gives additional control and flexibility
- Mixer can be controlled locally from the console or from the iPad app
- Auxiliary audio and Bluetooth connectivity for playback from phones, etc
- Additional inputs/outputs for AV connectivity and adding live-streaming mics
- Audio & Video output to feed the Crypt relay system
- Live-streaming from a single PTZ provides flexibility for smaller tech teams or volunteer operators
- Reuse of the existing induction loop system
- Discreet speaker placement with column arrays offers excellent coverage with visual minimalism - Custom painted to match the stone pillars, mounted on bespoke clamps to avoid drilling into the stonework
- Bespoke lockable oak-veneer AV console