ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL
•RESTORATION PROGRESS. CRYPT PIERS SOLIDIFIED. (Received 9 a.m.) LONDON, November 1. After three years of constant work, utilising funds subscribed from all parts of the Empire, the restoration of the piers iu the crypt of St. Paul’s Cathedral has been completed. First the interior of the pillars was grouted out and steel bars inserted. Then cement was pumped in at high pressure, converting the pillars into solid blocks of reinforced concrete. Many of the iron tie-bars linking the piers with the bastions, which Sir Christopher Wren had inserted, were found to be broken, and these have been replaced with steel tie-bars that will stand a strain of 600 tons.
Engineers are now working upon the columns supporting the dome, which will occupy another four years.—A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 3 November 1927, Page 5
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