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St Paul's Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of St Paul the Apostle, is an Anglican cathedral in London, England, the seat of the Bishop of London. The cathedral serves as the mother church of the Diocese of London. It is on Ludgate Hill at the highest point of the City of London.
View along Queen's Head Passage of the dome of St Paul's Cathedral. The street was devastated by aerial bombardment during World War II.In 2003 the area was pedestrianised with Paternoster Square, the modern home of the London Stock Exchange, at the west end and a paved area around St Pauls' Coop and an entrance to St Pauls tube station at the East, bounded by St Pauls Churchyard, New Change ...
St Paul's Cathedral dome and the Paternoster Square Column, from Paternoster Square. The main monument in the redeveloped square is the 75 feet (23 m) tall Paternoster Square Column. [12] It is a Corinthian column of Portland stone topped by a gold leaf covered flaming copper urn, which is illuminated by fibre-optic lighting at night. The ...
Rebuilt c. 1450. Restored 1954. United with St Katharine Cree [8] St Paul's Cathedral: St Paul's: Paul: C7th: Rebuilt 962, 1087–1240 (Old St Paul's), 1669–1697 St Sepulchre-without-Newgate: Holborn: Holy Sepulchre: Saxon: National Musicians' Church. Rebuilt C15th, 1670. Recent HTB church plant St Stephen Walbrook: Mansion House: Stephen ...
It became one of the principal marketplaces in London. St Paul's Cross was an open-air pulpit from which many of the most important statements on the political and religious changes brought by the Reformation were made public during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Only one execution is recorded as taking place in St Paul's Churchyard ...
View of St Paul's Cathedral from King Henry's Mound (before the construction of Manhattan Loft Gardens behind the cathedral in 2016).. A protected view or protected vista is the legal requirement within urban planning to preserve the view of a specific place or historic building from another location.
Wenceslas Hollar's engraving of the cathedral nave, "Paul's Walk". Paul's walk in Elizabethan and early Stuart London was the name given to the central nave of Old St Paul's Cathedral, where people walked up and down in search of the latest news. At the time, St. Paul's was the centre of the London grapevine.
Cheapside in 1823, looking west towards St Paul's Cathedral A view of Cheapside published in 1837 Photochrom of Cheapside, c. 1890–1900. Cheapside is the former site of one of the principal produce markets in London, cheap broadly meaning "market" in medieval English.