Meeting Rooms Survey
Location: Painswick, New Street
Room name: St. Mary’s Church of England Church
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1. Publicly availability: Please indicate whether room is generally available for public hire, whether there are any time or other restrictions on its use.
Available by agreement with the Vicar / Churchwardens when the building is not in use for Religious services, funerals , weddings , choir etc and available only for events considered suitable to be held in a place of worship.
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2. Room size: Please indicate floor area and shape, and ceiling height.
Large, although has fixed pews, so not very flexible. Very high ceiling.
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3. Appearance: Please describe the decorative state of the room (e.g. style and when last decorated).
White walls, but many stained glass windows. Decorated 20 years ago.
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4. Lighting: Please describe the nature of artificial lighting and its effectiveness. Please also describe whether darkness can be created during the day e.g. for slide shows etc and its effectiveness.
High roof lighting and roof spot lights. Some strip lights in north aisle. Better lighting in Chancel and Sanctuary. Spot lights in St. Peter’s chapel.
No black outs available.
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5. Heating: Please describe the room heating arrangements and their effectiveness in cold weather. Please also comment on any ventilation or air conditioning available and its effectiveness.
New heating boilers installed in 2007 and hot air blower over main door. Heating is adequate, but may not be enough in really cold weather.
No air conditioning.
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6. Seating and Tables: Please describe how many seats are available, and indicate their style (eg wood/foldaway/small/benches/etc) and quality. And similarly for tables.
The Church can seat 300 on wooden pews, wooden chairs and stacking chairs. 4 collapsible tables, good condition. 3 small wooden tables.
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7. Toilet facilities: Please indicate the number of toilets available and their nature
1 Toilet available in emergency.
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8. Parking: Please indicate what parking arrangements are available
No parking nearby. Can drop off equipment by the Village stocks.
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9. Presentation facilities: Please describe what presentation equipment is available. Presentation facilities include: projectors for slides and/or film and/or computer images, screens, microphones and audio equipment (including for recorded music), staging and special lighting for staging, etc. Please also indicate its effectiveness, and whether users are allowed to bring and use their own equipment.
Microphones and music system available. Projector and screen for Power Point etc can be made available. Excellent staging is stored in the building and can be made available. Users can bring their own equipment. Piano and Organ available.
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10. Kitchen facilities: Please describe what kitchen facilities are available. Eg crockery / glasses / washing up / fridge & freezer / cooking.
No facilities available.
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11. Bar facilities: Please describe what bar facilities are available and any restrictions.
No facilities available.
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12. Foyer facilities: Please describe what foyer facilities are available (outside the meeting room itself)
Porch with 2 doors out to Churchyard suitable for table .(to collect money etc).
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13. Storage facilities: Please describe what storage facilities are available for users.
None
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14. Disabled access: Please describe what disabled access arrangements there are.
Small ramp to cover shallow step from Churchyard into Porch. Gentle ramp down into Church building.
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15. Other facilities: Please describe any other facilities or features available at the meeting room. This might include staff on site, sports equipment, entertainments license, picture rails, etc
None
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16. Occupancy levels Please indicate occupancy levels (ie % of time used)
Varies so much from one week to the next.
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17. Changes planned: Please indicate any changes or improvements planned and their status (e.g. wish list, planned but no funding, etc). Exclude general maintenance.
Staging to be stored permanently at back of Church.
New Lighting System (at discussion stage)
Removal of front 2 pews to create more space for Concerts, weddings etc (at discussion stage)
New door curtains and new carpets (at discussion stage)
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Name of person completing pro-forma: Mrs Frankie Marsh (Churchwarden)
Date: August 27th 2008