Church
Projects
We love working with churches and para-church organisations to help them deliver their mission. Our ministry is to help you deliver yours.
We love and understand the local church, its mission and values. Snug is led by two Christian directors, from different denominations, who have extensive experience of working with churches.
We have had the privilege of helping a wide variety of churches to more effectively steward their buildings. Our work has ranged from the re-ordering of traditional Listed churches to developing proposals for modern new church buildings.
We would welcome the opportunity to serve you and your church community as you seek to release the potential of your buildings.
Churches we have worked with to date:
1. St Mary’s, Eling
Grade 2*, Extension, Stage 0-3
2. New Life church, Winchester
External Works, Stage 0-3
3. St Wins, Totton
Grade 2, Major Refurbishment, Stage 0-5
4. Lymington Baptist Church, Lymington
New build, Stage 0-3
5. St Luke’s, Stanmore
New church and Enabling Development, Stage 0-3
6. St Swithuns, Bournemouth
Engagement
7. Blandford Forum Parish Church
Grade 1, Engagement
8. Beacon Church, Whitchurch
Engagement
9. Holy Trinity, Aldershot
Grade 2, Engagement
10. Highfield Church, Southampton
Masterplan and Engagement, Stage 0-2
11. Christchurch, Winchester-
Hall refurbishment, Stage 0-5
12. Basingstoke Church, Basingstoke
Multi-Site Feasibility Study
13. St Barnabas, Winchester
Extension Feasibility Study
14. St James, Southampton
New church hall, Stage 0-5
15. Above Bar Church East, Southampton
New Church Feasibility Study
16. Shirley Warren Action Church, Southampton
New church hall, Stage 0-5
17. Above Bar Church, Southampton
Refurbishment, Stage 0-5
We were winner of the 2025 Church Architecture Presidents' Award
‘Snug’s deep understanding of both the church and the needs of the wider community was integral to the revitalisation of St Wins. Receiving this award has been a great encouragement to us all, recognising the strength of the partnership between Snug, the DAC (Winchester Diocese), and the church. We are so grateful that the St Wins community will be able to enjoy this beautiful building for many years to come.’
Rev Ali Hill – Vicar at St Wins
Our Process
We love helping churches to better align their buildings with their mission. Church buildings can play a critical role, both in the life of the congregation and the wider community. We believe that well designed church buildings release church members to serve their community more effectively. This means creating buildings that align with your mission and values, both functionally and aesthetically. We have refined a process that helps churches deliver. We call it Church, Prepare to Build. To find out more please contact the studio.
A new church reflecting a confident, welcoming and warm expression of the church.
A modern entrance and link to a traditional church.
Buildings say a great deal about their occupants. We are committed to ensuring that the design of your project is aligned with the vision and values of your church community. We achieve this by first listening. We have developed a unique Church Engagement Toolkit and deliver engaging stakeholder workshops that help churches define their vision and values, build consensus and establish clear objectives for their project. This can be a powerful process and one we find helps churches to deepen and embed their vision, serving to advance the churches mission through our engagement process.
These workshops will establish the basis for preparing a robust Project Brief or Statement of Need and importantly, will help your church community engage in the process of change, building greater awareness and the necessary consensus that helps church leaders to move forward with confidence. Our facilitated process also allows church leaders and those leading the building project to themselves engage as participants in the process.
Explore a Church Engagement Toolkit Case Study.
Once we have properly understood and defined your requirements we are able to help you identify and assess alternative strategies for delivering the project. Our Feasibility Studies test alternative options and ensure that the project sets off in the right direction. These early studies will assess your sites capacity to deliver your requirements, help to establish a project budget and set out a clear process and timeline for delivery.
We help churches to unlock the spatial potential of their buildings. We can also advise you on how to unlock potential financial value from your assets and have experience of supporting churches to finance new church buildings through innovative enabling developments. This can help you create a viable business case, and allow you to deliver your project with reduced capital investment from the church.
As Architects and Project Managers we can support you throughout the subsequent design and delivery process, guiding you through the entire project from inception to completion. Our team has the expertise and professional experience required at all stages of the project, including Concept Design, preparation of Planning Applications, Technical Design and as either Employers Agent or Contract Administrator during the construction process.
New Churches
We have experience of working with all types of churches, on everything from historic Grade 1, Grade 2* and Grade 2 Listed buildings to modern new builds and even churches in warehouses and old cinemas. In each case we will work hard to ensure our design aligns with your mission, values and budget.
Attention in the details
Breathing new life into the church
If you are looking to extend, amend or build your church we would love to help. Please call us on 02382 029500 to arrange one of FREE 'Explore' calls. We would be happy to help you refine your plans.
There is no cost for this initial advice. Churches also benefit from our 10% charity discount.