"Greening" the spotlights in Romsey Abbey

 

Romsey Abbey is a busy concert venue for local performers as well as a parish church. We are planning to modernise our main service lights used for all large events in the Abbey, including our regular services, school and charity concerts, lunchtime recitals and evening concerts. The current lights are halogen, and are the largest contributor to our carbon footprint from electricity.

 

Big Give Christmas Challenge 2025

 

Between midday on 2nd and midday on 9th December 2025, we have the generous support of the Big Give Christmas Challenge, which will double any funds raised. Our target is £20,000.

 

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Thank you to our generous donors!

Our fundraising appeal between 25th May and 5th July 2025 raised £11,162 of which the first £10,000 was matched by the Church of England under their Give to Go Green scheme. We are also able to claim Gift Aid on some of the donations, so in total the appeal raised £23,157.25

We have replaced the 12 concert lights and are working with consultants on technical advice for the replacement of the remaining 72 service lights. 

We will continue to look for other sources of funding to help us continue with the replacement scheme. 

 

LIGHTING  - the detail

  • The Abbey has 72 halogen spotlights and 12 concert lights.
  • The halogen spotlights consume 650 watts each. Equivalent LEDs would consume 170 watts.
  • Moving from halogen to LED spotlights would reduce carbon dioxide generated by the Abbey lighting by an estimated 2 tonnes per year and reduce the lighting energy costs from £6,000 to £1.600 (at current prices in summer 2025)
  • The total project cost of replacing all lights plus a flexible control system is likely to be in the order of £100,000.

 

Church of England Environment Programme

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