Revd Father Peter HarrisMaster

Father Peter Harris has been a member of the Worshipful Company of Lightmongers for close to ten years and has served as Chaplain, Court Assistant, and Junior and Senior Warden and now Master.

He is a Catholic priest and serves as Parish Priest of Bishop’s Stortford in Hertfordshire. Since the year 2000 he has chaired the Diocese of Westminster’s Historic Churches Committee which grants Listed Building Consent, under Parliamentary Exemption, for alterations to listed Churches. In this capacity, and as a member of the national Catholic Bishops Conference Patrimony Committee, he has particularly taken an interest in applications for schemes of church lighting.

Over many years he has been a key player in developing the Catholic Church’s outlook on lighting design and has overseen many successful projects encouraging churches in their use of the best lighting designers and contractors, both in the Westminster Diocese and nationally. Current schemes in the Diocese include work at the Church of the Immaculate Conception at Farm Street (Gd II*), St Mary’s Cadogan Street (Gd II*), Corpus Christi Covent Garden (Gd II) and A.W.Pugin’s Chapel at St Edmund’s College, Ware (Gd I).