European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Salisbury. Quot the 19th Century was a period of the first appreciation of medieval Salisbury is in the fourth year of trying to raise $13 million to save its famed 404-foot-High, 14th-Century spire. Cathedrals also suffer Wear and tear from bus loads of visitors Many of whom drop pittance in donation boxes. Income from visitors to Worcester Rose 15 percent last year to an average of 44 cents apiece Jeffery said. Quot i always Tell people yes come in it s free. You Don t have to pay Quot said John Lamplugh chief administrator at Winchester in Southern England. Quot but if you Don t do something there won t be anything Here for your grandchildren Quot England s cathedrals of which about 30 Date from the Middle Ages Are mostly smaller than their French and German counterparts. They evolved however in highly individual ways from the great Early gothic frontal screens of statuary at Wells Salisbury and Lichfield to the elaborate fan vaults on the ceiling of Gloucester. / \ the cathedrals some once very wealthy lived off their endowments until 1840 when the Church of England distributed the savings among smaller churches. In. Return cathedrals were Given annual incomes that have been eaten away by. Inflation. 1 \ Quot by now certainly they Bear Little relation to the Cost of running a Cathedral Quot said or. Richard Gem of the Cathedra advisory commission a Church body of 20 experts and Church officials. Ely Cathedral for instance receives $120,000 annually to cover All costs except the salaries of its Dean and two canons or sub Deans by 1985, this did not even meet the Cost of conducting services m the building famed Tor its unique octagonal Central Tower. A _ Ely began charging admission in 1986. No other Cathedral has followed suit though some make donations hard to avoid on entering. A a the clergy at Lincoln tried to raise Money by sending their copy of the 13th-Century Magna Carta to a world s a i r in austra i a i n 1988. The venture ended up costing the Cathedral $112,000. Attempts to raise $ 16 million for. Hereford Cathedral caused a National uproar after Dean Peter Haynes and the chapter the Cathedral s governing body. Decided Otry to sell its 13th-Century Mappa Mundi. Taken Aback by protests the Dean and chapter cancelled plans to auction the map which shows Jerusalem at the Center of a Flat world. In october a new Quot care of cathedrals measure paved the Way for state funding for the cathedrals it s unclear How soon government Money will be available but the very Rev. Wesley Carr Dean of Bristol in t worried top much. Quot we at cathedrals Don t think in terms of five years but in terms of 800 years Quot he. Said. Top left clerk of works Brian Eacock checks flying buttress for damage at Worcester Cathedral. Top a View of the Cathedral from ground level. Above a worker erects scaffolding on the Cathedral s Tower. A january 17, 199/ stripes Magazine 7
