Coventry Cathedral’s Pristine Screen by Universal Aerial Platforms

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COVENTRY CATHEDRAL’S PRISTINE SCREEN

Universal Aerial Platforms

25/03/2008

Universal Aerial Platforms recently worked with Coventry Cathedral to help clean its famous “West Screen”. The Company provided a Spider FS290 which allowed access to all levels of the inside and outside of this huge piece of artwork without disruption.

This priceless screen is one of the most impressive features of the Cathedral and was created by New Zealand artist John Hutton in the late 1950’s. It took ten years to complete and consists of 90 glass plates each measuring 8ft by 3ft of which 66 depict hand tooled etchings of saints and angels all suspended in a bronze frame from the Cathedrals roof.

Advance Cleaning Services, the Specialist Contractor which undertook the clean, know the new Spider to be a sure-footed means of accessing difficult comissions.

The machine itself is used in situations where careful handling and positioning are required. In this case, having to work closely to such a valuable piece of history, the special features of the FS290 (silent, fume-free electric working, narrow [0.8 m] stowed width, lightweight [3750 Kgs] were all attributes essential to overcome the assignments restrictions.

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