WINDOWS OF YORK MINSTER.
More than half the stained glass that has como down to the people of England from the Middle Ages is in the one hundred and nine windows of York Minster. If valued at the prices recently paid by Americans for such things the sum would be about 70 million pounds, so that it does not seem extravagant, even from the money point of view, to have spent £35,000 on its restoration. Not only has the glass been dimmed by dust and the leading gradually worn away, but the glass itself has been reduced to the thinness of butterpaper and bulged out of its proper shape. A wonderful way of making the glass flat again without breaking it was discovered by Mr R. C. Green, the Minster’s clerk of the works. He found that a bath of clean water heated to 65 degrees made the glass flat again of its own accord, no matter how much it had bulged.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 255, 26 September 1929, Page 8
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162WINDOWS OF YORK MINSTER. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 255, 26 September 1929, Page 8
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