text: Well, if those cathedrals were "built as Catholic churches," but, during the Reformation, were "taken over by the fledging Church of England," a new state church (still numerically fledging, diminishing, owing to the rise of the non-affiliated), maybe the state can save them, oversee them, pour money into repairing them -- if not all of them, at least some of them. State business would NOT be a cruel trade in this regard.