SAFE FOR 500 YEARS
PRESERVING ST. PAUL’S “By the time the work at St. Paul’s Cathedral Is finished the building will be safe for at least five centuries,” said Canon Alexander, addressing a meeting of the Victoria League in London recently. The work of preservation had taken 17 years to accomplish and the fund had reached £400,000. As an example of the weight borne by the foundations of the Cathedral the dome alone weighed 68,000 tons. The engineers intended to make the centre of the building a monolith by the process of solidifying the piers which supported it. If the dome had sunk a little more It might have been too late to have repaired the Cathedral.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 913, 5 March 1930, Page 6
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