The old overhead heaters which were energy inefficient and expensive to run have gone!  On Christmas day worshippers were treated to an unaccustomed blast of heat from above.  The Holy Spirit? Possibly.  New quartz halogen heaters? Definitely.  Some people were even observed to be sitting in their pews without coats and gloves.

Many thanks to Dave Young for project managing it all, @Herschel for advising and supplying the heaters; @David Skelton Electrics for working long hours in the cold to finish installing them in time for Christmas and @South Hill Parish Council for help with funding.

A few minor tweaks will be carried out over the next few weeks, including linking the heaters to a remote control switch so that they can be switched on in the appropriate pews as people arrive and so that we can reduce or increase the heat as needed.