Salisbury Cathedral gets wooden makeover for bugs
It's part of their Eco Day!
In the work grounds of Salisbury Cathedral currently lies in a slightly smaller wooden model of the building, created for bugs.
To continue to improve their eco output, and to engage with young people, the building will be filled with different waste products, so the bugs can call it home.
The plan to create the model was given to the Cathedral's carpenter, who has made it in the image of the main building and is 10 feet tall.
The Cathedral are holding a Youth Eco Day next week focusing on the ecological life of the Cathedral and its surrounding areas.
During the day, the 12 to 16 year olds will fill up the wooden building.
Peter Atkinson, the Minor Canon for Young People, said:
"I wasn't expecting it to be so big initially, but our Carpenter has got his hands on it and he has gone all out but that's why you trust the pros and it's turned out to be something far better than I could have imagined because I am not a Carpenter and I would have just stacked a few pallets together and called it a bug cathedral. It's gonna be so impressive for the young people when they come to do the project.
"The aim of this bug cathedral really is to try and help the cathedral with its ecological drive. So the cathedral is a is a gold Eco Church Award winner and so we've got a real priority about caring for the environment, caring for the world around us and we have quite a lot of space to do that in the cathedral close here in Salisbury. So the priority is to try and see how we could get young people involved in the life of the cathedral and with this particular focus around the ecology and things, so the bug cathedral is to be part of getting young people involved in how we care for the environment around us and it's designed to be a springboard that in September in when schools start to go back, we'll be launching a weekly eco club with young people where we've got loads of different activities planned throughout the term, to get young people involved in the life of the cathedral and to enable them to really contribute to the environment and things around them as well."