Lincoln Cathedral finally emerges from restoration project

Lincoln Cathedral was once the tallest building in the world

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published 15 July 2022

Until last week, no one under the age of 40 had seen Lincoln Cathedral in all its glory, because the building had been covered in scaffolding since 1986. Now the cathedral that William the Conqueror commissioned in 1072 – and which was for a time the tallest structure in the world – has finally emerged from the restoration project, which involved scrubbing its exterior of hundreds of years of accumulated grime. Pamela Bahr, a retired secretary, told The Sunday Times that she was bringing her adult daughter to see the facade for the first time. “I have been to so many services, it is part of my life,” said Bahr, 69. “It is the city, the cathedral. It is Lincoln.”

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