Tumblr post: Minster and chips, anyone?

8 Jan 2013 @ 8.34 am
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Minster and chips, anyone? The Daily Telegraph reports that York Minster is to be coated in a layer of fat derived from olive oil to keep out the rain. In a separate leader comment, the Telegraph says that this scientific solution from Cardiff University harks back to the medieval craftsmen who worked on “the most thoroughgoingly Gothic of England’s ancient cathedrals”.

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