Exhibition: St Mary le Strand Speaks! Sound and Light Installation

The Church’s gold apse and white-flowered, coffered, ceiling, will be flooded with exploratory light and reverberate to the sublime sound of George Frederic Handel.

We shall be using Handel’s ‘Eternal Source of Light Divine’ – written to celebrate the Birthday of Queen Anne in 1713 – and so contemporaneous with the original ‘New Church in the Strand’ project.

After the Sound and Light, there will be a pause for contemplation and reflection – fulfilling St. Mary le Strand’s brief to be a place of Sanctuary within the Strand. Afterwards the Church will indeed ‘speak’ – courtesy of actress Amanda Walker.

She, as the Church, will answer the many questions that have been put to her over the years: Why were you built in the middle of a road? And why – when you are an Anglican Parish Church – do you look so very Roman Catholic?

The whole cycle will run for around twenty minutes and will be played three times an hour. It will run from Mondays to Fridays 12-4pm and sometimes into the later afternoon.