£100m needed to keep English cathedrals standing

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More than £100 million is needed within the next decade to keep England’s 59 Roman Catholic and Anglican cathedrals standing. According to a survey by English Heritage, massive amounts of works are still necessary despite £250 million of repairs over the past two decades. Many of the repairs, which include work on structure, masonry and stained glass, that are most essential still are at six of the great cathedrals alone — Canterbury, York, Salisbury, Chichester, Winchester and Lincoln. English Heritage blamed shortfalls in government funding after it was criticised this year for ending its annual £3 million scheme to help towards cathedral repairs, writes Ruth Gledhill in The Times

 

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