ST. PAUL'S NOW SAFE

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 112, 17 November 1928, Page 20

ST. PAUL'S NOW SAFE

WORK ALMOST COMPLETED St. Paul's Cathedral, London, is shown by a report now issued to bo within sight of complete restoration (says tho "Christian Scionce Monitor"). Four years ago this masterpiece of Sir Christopher Wren, although one of tho architectural triumphs of tho sovonte.enth century world, was a cracked and tremb/ag ruin. So rapidly was it. approaching collapse'that a London municipal "surveyor condemned it officially as dangerous. Within reach of its shadow, was the office of "The Times." . Those responsible for the conduct of that journal realised the urgency, of the case, and started a fund for repairs,- which eventually reached a quartor of a million pounds. ; The best engineering skill was enlisted. Tiie vast piores that'support dome and roof were cut away and concrete and rustless stool wore forced into, the holes by hydraulic powor until the'entire core, previously of crumb-, ling rubble, had been-converted..into-a block of . tho hardest reinforced rock. The work is now.declared to have succeeded beyond expectation. The piers have become compact. Two years' toil, may still bo necessary to complete tlio undertaking, but all doubt as to tho stubility of tho structure luu been removed. Tho incomparable dome aud tower havo been saved for tho admiration of generations to come. A meritorious undertaking has been. carried through to success.