It only makes sense to save it if they’re restoring it.
All the articles Ive seen about this, the writers refer to the spire as ‘centuries old’.
It wasn’t. It was built in the 1830’s to replace a spire that had been torn down in the late 1700’s that had deteriorated badly and was in danger of falling down.
The wood was not 870 years old, but just under 200...............