St Paul's Cathedral
St Paul’s Cathedral is the Anglican cathedral of London, and the dome you know today is Sir Christopher Wren’s great post–Great Fire rebuilding, begun after 1666 and completed in 1710. The present church replaced the medieval cathedral that was destroyed in the Great Fire, so the site carries a very long ecclesiastical history even though the building around you is early 18th century in style. Its setting in St Paul’s Churchyard keeps it tied to the city’s older religious core, where the churchyard itself once held burials and still frames the cathedral with a rare sense of enclosure in the middle of the City. Wren’s design became one of London’s defining landmarks, and the cathedral later took on a public role in national ceremonies, including major services of remembrance and celebration. …
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