NEEDS OF THE ABBEY.
Nothing has remained for the western towers, the clerestories or the flying buttresses. To repair the towers would take at least £IO,OOO, and might easily take more, although once they were in good shape the income would suffice to keep them in repair. The work on the towers was to be done out of capital; it will now hare to wait on income. Meanwhile, the conditions of the towers, the clerestories and the flying buttresses is worse than it was in 1920 by seven years of London’s soot and fog and rain. It is a bitter reflection that a place so rich in history is financially down-at-heel. The Abbey needs a new organ. The present organ was rebuilt 40 year* ago, but is nearly 300 years old. It has three wonderful old stops by Renatua Harris, but the rest of its stops are not adequate. The Abbey also needs an expert with a copyist to study, arrange and catalogue the old rent rolls in its muniment room. For some years past £250 a year for an expert, working alone on a kind of quarter-time arrangement, has been managed, but what is needed would cost at least £IOOO a year.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20310, 19 January 1928, Page 11
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203NEEDS OF THE ABBEY. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20310, 19 January 1928, Page 11
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