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Gary Price, Clerk of Works, brushes a dragon crocket, at Salisbury Cathedral on September 07, 2023 in Salisbury, England. Canon Kenneth’s blessing at the Topping Out ceremony will mark a significant milestone in an extraordinary feat of restoration and repair, which began with a survey by the then Clerk of Works, Roy Spring, in 1986. In his survey, Spring noted that the stonework was in a dangerous condition and major work was required. Restoration work eventually got underway after a huge fundraising appeal in the late 1980s, and the stonemasonry, glazing and maintenance team have since been working their way round the building, a 37-year marathon that has taken almost as long as it took to build the main Cathedral. After the Topping Out blessing, the scaffold will be removed over period of six weeks and the restored rooftops and parapets decorated with the delicate carvings made by the Cathedral masons and currently accessible, will once again be unvisited. The ‘secret’ glazing workshop built to facilitate the re-leading of the Cathedral windows and the installation of the Moses window in 1781 will be dismantled. Kenneth Padley, Canon Treasurer, who is responsible for the fabric of the building said, “I feel Obtenez des photos d'actualité haute résolution de qualité sur getty