THE WINDOWS OF YORK MINSTER.
More than half the stained glass tha i has come down to the people of England from tho Middle Ages is in the one
hundred and nine windows of York Minster, If valued at the prices recently paid by Americans for euch things the sum would be about 70 million pounds, so that it does nofc seem extravagant, 1 even from the money point of view, to have spent .-£35,000 on ita restoration. ; Not only has the glass been dimmed i by dust and the leading gradually worn ' away, but the glass itself has been, reduced to the thinness of butter-paper , and bulged out of its proper shape. A wonderful way of making the glass flat again without breaking it wae dis- , covered by Mr. E. C. Green, the Min- ! ster's clerk of the works. He found that a bath of clean water heated to 05 . degrees made the glass flat again of its t own accord, no matter how much it had j bulged.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 225, 23 September 1929, Page 9
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170THE WINDOWS OF YORK MINSTER. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 225, 23 September 1929, Page 9
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