Westminster Abbey.
London, April 20.
The fabric of Westminster Abbey, it 13 feared, is in serious danger. Three weeks ago a small marble shaft fell from one of the windows in St. Andrew’s Chapel, the iron pin that had sustained it for six hundred years having corroded. Iron pins are doing the samchiuty in innumerable places throughout the Abbey and farther dilapidation is apprehended-. To overhaul and renew these pins will be a superhuman labor. Prof. Church says that the use of gas as an illuminant in the Abbey, which is a limestone building, sets up a chemical change which is followed by disintegration, and the only sure preservative iB to limewash the interior, which he says will be possible without altering the hue.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 126, 7 June 1901, Page 4
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124Westminster Abbey. Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 126, 7 June 1901, Page 4
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