During COVID lockdown, St Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church, Corsham and Our Lady of the Assumption, Chippenham merged to combine resources.
I had designed the St Patrick’s church and they needed a new website to serve the combined parishes.
During Lockdown, when parishioners were not able to meet in person, the website became more essential as a means to communicate and feel part of a community, so the site had live-streamed services from Clifton Catholic Cathedral, and the parish diary events section became an essential resource.
The new website was designed to look modern, yet also warm and welcoming, using warm cream and green colours. To reflect the wide demographic of modern Catholic parishioners, which included a large amount of Polish and Nigerian parishioners, it was important to avoid making the branding look too Irish, which was the main demographic in the past.
I created 2 new logos for the 2 churches, combining traditional elements with a clean, simplified modern styling, which could be easily viewed at a small scale on mobile screens.
The new website needed to display a large amount of essential information in a clear and easy to navigate format, that wouldn’t appear overwhelming to visitors, so a lot of planning went into how visitors could access the information they needed.
The events section shows upcoming events in calendar format and also as lists, both with event details shown on rollover.
The most recent PDF of the Weekly Bulletin is shown automatically on the home page as a downloadable link.
The home page also displays the most recent news posts in a carousel.