Heritage & culture · Website design, content structure

Christ the Consoler

A digital experience with the building at its centre.

Explore the project

Aerial view of Christ the Consoler in misty autumn light

Project overview

Where we started

Christ the Consoler is a Grade I listed Victorian church near Newby Hall, in Skelton-on-Ure. People come to visit, to attend a concert or service, or to hire the building.

The site had to do those jobs without flattening a memorial church into a generic venue template. The building is the reason anyone is there.

We built the website around visit, events and hire, with a clear way to support the church.

Brand identity

A visual world of its own.

The production identity pairs the church's rose-window mark with heritage sage, church gold and a quiet neutral ground, allowing the building and stained glass to remain central.

The Christ the Consoler stained-glass rose window

The west front and Gothic spire of Christ the Consoler

Brand principle01

“The building is the identity.”

Cormorant Garamond for hero titles, Playfair Display for headings and Inter for body and interface text.

TypographyAa · 01

Cormorant Garamond

Hero titles

Playfair Display

Headings

Inter

Body & interface

Cormorant Garamond for hero titles, Playfair Display for headings and Inter for body and interface text.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ · 0123456789

Heritage sage01 · #6F9C60

Church gold02 · #FDB813

Background03 · #F9F9F9

Charcoal04 · #333333

Fonts, palette and the rose-window mark are taken directly from the Christ the Consoler production codebase.

The white limestone nave inside Christ the Consoler — Interior photography carries the richness that words alone cannot.

Victorian stained glass at Christ the Consoler — Architectural detail gives every practical page a sense of place.

What we did

The work, in order

A homepage that leads with the building

The first screen is the church itself, not a stock venue shot. The name, the place and the reason to come are the opening.

Visit, events and hire as separate paths

A visitor, someone coming to a concert, and someone hiring the church are not the same enquiry. Each has its own route from the homepage.

A way to support the building

Alongside visiting and hiring, the site gives people a direct way to support the upkeep of a Grade I listed church.

The result

Christ the Consoler now has a visual, useful home for its story, visitor information, events and preservation work, with the architecture present on every route through the site.

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