Church can protect glass with plastic
Protection: Nick Teed, a senior conservator at the
York Glaziers Trust, with new UV-resistant glass to be used as part
of protective glazing for the great east window at York Minster,
which is thought to be the first building in the world to use the
new technique
Protection: Nick Teed, a senior conservator at the
York Glaziers Trust, with new UV-resistant glass to be used as part
of protective glazing for the...
A PRIEST and his congregation have been given permission to use
polycarbonate screens to protect their Grade-II listed church's
newly reglazed west window from vandals.
Prebendary Richard Grigson and the PCC of St Saviour's, in
Smallthorne, Staffs, said that the existing mesh screens made
people inside feel as if they were in prison, and instead opted for
clear polycarbonate sheeting. The Lichfield Diocesan Advisory
Committee objected, however, suggesting that the material was a
fire hazard, could be a target for graffiti, and could cause
condensation.
But a consistory court has ruled that polycarbonate can be
installed. Chancellor Stephen Eyre, of the diocese of Lichfield,
said: "The church is not unaware of the potential disadvantages of
polycarbonate, but they have taken appropriate steps to minimise
those disadvantages. They have balanced those disadvantages against
the recognised disadvantage of the internal effect which the use of
wire mesh can have.
"Having conducted that balancing exercise, they have decided the
advantages of polycarbonate outweigh its potential disadvantages.
That is a rational decision."
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