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Re St Benedict, Cambridge

Ely Consistory Court: Gage Ch, August 2009 Sound system – speakers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2010

Ruth Arlow
Affiliation:
Barrister, Deputy Chancellor of the Dioceses of Chichester and Norwich
Will Adam
Affiliation:
Rector of Girton, Ely Diocesan Ecumenical Officer
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Abstract

Type
Case Notes
Copyright
Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2010

A faculty was granted for the installation of a new sound system, including the installation of narrow speakers on the pillars of the church, attached by fixings in the mortar of the pillars. The DAC did not recommend the proposed works; the committee has a standard and consistent policy of recommending that speakers be set higher up than was here proposed, to minimise visual impact. The chancellor attended the church for a demonstration of the proposed system and the current system, which made use of higher level, less visually obvious speakers, and concluded that the proposed system produced a distinctly greater quality of sound. [WA]