Canterbury Cathedral's stonework is crumbling, and a fifth of the internal pillars are held together with duct-tape. The Church was founded in 597 AD, and the crumbling pillars date to the 12th century.
Heather Newton, the head of stone conservation, said that 20 per cent of the hundreds of 12th century Purbeck marble pillars that line the interior walls of the cathedral were bound with tape to prevent them crumbling. She added that a number of crockets, the decorative ends of the pinnacles on some of the towers, had been blown off in storms.
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