I think that is roughly the time at which Victorian architecture gets damned expensive to maintain. Experience of all those bloody neo-Gothic churches built by the Victorians, or grafted onto anythin… (View Post)

Thank-you. That's a useful number - as another the Durham Cathedral "we need this much money to run the cathedral" is of the order of £60k per week aiui at present. Southwell Minster i… (View Post)

I have three reactions there. Firstly I am skeptical, because we need comparators like restoration to comparable buildings, which would be things varying from St Pancras Station and the Natural Histo… (View Post)

Thank-you. As a rough comparator, I tried to make a comparison with all conservation and restoration expenditure on all 42 English CofE Cathedrals over the last 30-50 years, but the data is not easy … (View Post)

This is another 'popular' character on the Right (he was heavily featured in the Sun two days ago *) who turns out to have a fairly standard extremist trajectory. I don't know enough a… (View Post)