The screen is 10.5 metres high, 11 metres long and weighs over 8 tons. The screen was a star piece in International Exhibition of 1862, held in london before its installation in the cathedral in 1863. A contemporary described it as one of the most important works, not only for its size but for the care with which it had been executed, and the successful endeavour to treat what is in fact a large architetural subject in metal alone.
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