UK – drones used to survey church buildings

Drones- or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) – are starting to be used to survey church buildings. They enable visual inspection of fragile or inaccessible structures, without the need for scaffolding.

Peter Slinger, who used drones to inspect St Peter’s Chruch, Yaxley, said: “We obtained a very comprehensive understanding of the condition of parts of the church which were inaccessible and even discovered problems which would have been unlikely to have been noted even if we could have accessed them.”

Read the full article by the National Churches Trust here.