PRECIOUS WINDOWS
WORTH £5O A FOOT, When the War broke our the stained glass windows, worth £5O a foot, in Canterbury Cathedral were removed to avoid air-raid damage. An expert, Mr. S. Caldwell, a Canterbury man, did it • in three weeks. Then came peace. The restoration of the windows, closely guarded in a dugout at the rear of Mr. Caldwell’s premises, was ordered. Mr. Caldwell and six of his employees began the task. Now 15 years later they are in sight of their goal. Replacing the windows has been a gigantic task. Mr. Caldwell spoke recently of the ’ secret of the twelfth and thirteenth century monks who painted most of the * windows. Stained window artists, he said, have been striving for years to t discover the secret of these monks, i Modern artists cannot produce such 1 beautiful colouring. f i
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 299, 19 December 1933, Page 10
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