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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17750, 30 April 1923, Page 2

In pointing out that £30,C00 nruat be spent on restoration work at Peterborough Cathedral, the Dean declared recently that "the beJI tower is in a state which is not mereiy scandalous, fcqt almost ridiculous for an English I Cathedral—we must not ring the ' bells." A fine ,old chime of bells thus lies idle, and, worse uian this, the Cathedral itself is reported to be in real danger. Peterborough Cathedral —the Norman portion of which dates from 1117—is one of the finest pieces I of architecture in England. ,The_ west front, regarded as the finest portico in j | Europe, has long been in danger, and . has only been saved in the past by much underpinning. The threatened tower is one to which Richard the SaciVfitan a'dded an upper part before 1274, and the five bells which are now silent include a frreat bell resented b, w EiahoD Cumberland about 1700.