Conservation & Heritage Issue 50 Winter 2025/Spring 2026 - Flipbook - Page 135
Whitwam AVI elevates
broadcasting capabilities at
Westminster Abbey with 4k
streaming solution
The Abbey is a place that’s touched the lives of kings, queens, statesmen and soldiers, poets,
priests, heroes and villains since 960AD. Westminster Abbey has been the coronation
church since 1066 and is the resting place of more than 3,000 great Britons.
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Westminster Abbey recently completed a major upgrade to
its technology infrastructure. For over a thousand years,
the Abbey has stood as a beacon of tradition and ceremony.
Yet, behind its famous Gothic vaults and Royal tombs, the
building’s AV and broadcast systems have quietly evolved
through decades of incremental upgrades. The goal of the
most recent project was to implement a broadcast-standard,
4k-capable streaming system to meet modern demands
without compromising the building’s UNESCO-listed
fabric. Whitwam AVI, long-term AV partner and trusted
consultant, designed and delivered the system, ultimately
furnishing the Westminster Abbey team with the tools to
better leverage their digital presence.
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We’ve been collaborating with Westminster Abbey
since 2009 in the lead-up to the Royal Wedding.
Since that time, we have been continually evolving
the Abbey systems as technologies and demands have
moved forward,” explains Andrew Pymm, Director
at Whitwam AVI. “Each upgrade has needed to be
sensitive to both the building and the many important
services and events Westminster is responsible for
hosting.”
Previous interventions, from the 2015 organ video relay
system to the 2020 AV control room relocation to the
triforium, have laid the groundwork for this latest, most
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