In many churches, poor church acoustics are an issue. With hard walls, stone or tiled floors and bare wooden seating, these are normally very reverberant spaces. All these coupled with high ceilings and strange shapes can make for terrible church acoustics. In a building that was built predominantly for holding services and meetings, this is not a good thing. The hard of hearing can find it extremely difficult and frustrating to hear a marrying couple or the vicar when his voice is being reflected at them from all directions.
St. Thomas Church, Hanwell
A recent major refurbishment to this grade 11* listed building included improvement to the church acoustics.
After research by acoustic consultants Peninsular Acoustics an acoustic coating of SonaSpray fc in off white was proposed at 25mm thick to control reflected noise from hard surfaces.
English Heritage approved the use of SonaSpray for the listed building.
“This is Edward Maufe’s finest church”
a comment by Elain Harwood in her listing report to English Hertitage.
SonaSpray fc was applied to the Chancel, Nave and Sedilia maintaining the flowing lines of the magnificent arches and improving the church acoustics.
Following the works the vicar stated satisfaction with the results and building acoustics tests were carried out by Peninsular Acoustics that showed the required church acoustic conditions had been achieved.
The result - Perfect church acoustics!
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