LETTER:Glass warfare at Sherborne
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Sir: In attacking the "vandals" of Sherborne, James Fenton ("Old, faded - but no, vicar, not throwaway", 24 July) is guilty of breathtaking metropolitan arrogance. In seeking to turn this wonderful early English perpendicular church into a museum for Victoriana, he is perverse. In preferring the bleached and dilapidated remnant of Augustus Pugin's factory to the elegant and striking icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary by John Hayward - Sherborne's choice for the new window - Mr Fenton is, well, just wrong.
Yours sincerely,
Andrew Duff
London, SW1
25 July
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