| AT WAR |
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© Kent Messenger Group Newspapers*
| From among the surrounding rubble and ruins the Cathedral
still stands virtually unscathed. This was in part due partly to the bravery
of wardens throwing incendiaries from the roof onto the grass below, in
the same way St. Paul's in London had been saved. The few incendiaries
that did get through into the building fortunately burned harmlessly on
the stone floors. There was one scare when a four-ton bomb, [the largest
dropped that night], landed in the precincts only twenty yards from the
Warrior's Chapel. Some glass in the nave was blown out but the most valuable
and important windows had been removed previously and stored safely elsewhere.
Despite the carnage on every side, including the destruction of some of the houses within the precincts, the Cathedral received only one direct hit which was on the Victorian Library. Fortunately, particularly for the genealogists that visit this site, the valuable papers and records, like the stained glass windows, had already been stored elsewhere. |
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