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Location: Angmering St Margarets, West Sussex

Architect: Lee Evans Partnership

Size: 6.5 x 2.0 (x2) 24sqm

Installed: February 2009

Description: Enamelled toughened glass with sandblasted and acid polished clear glass.

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Two art glass facades to a modern extension and reordering of a listed church building. The themes for the facades are 'welcome', for the new entrance, and 'the church in the community' for the office areas.

The art glass is a principal feature of this east elevation extension forming a new entrance and foyer to one side and new function space and office on the other. Facing out to the village, the coloured art glass facades are intended to reach out to meet the parish, to provide a lively and inspiring approach to the church whilst enhancing the interior.

With parts Medieval to the 1500s, much of the church is the result of substantial early-Victorian alterations. The designs for the new facades link to the decoration and features of the church's long history, with links to the screens and column capitals. The stone carving is soft, not unlike the texture created by sandblasting on glass. Gentle carvings to columns bear angels and natural foliage, which inspire the flowing motifs in the facade designs. Individually these are seen as a feather, a flame, a leaf, a droplet of water but in a gathering become wings, fire, canopies of foliage, rivers, ripples and waves.

This project won a Sussex Heritage Trust Award and was Joint Community Winner of the RIBA Downland Prize 2009.