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It’s a Church of Englandcathedral, the seat of the Bishopof London and mother church

of the Diocese of London.



It sits at the top ofLudgate Hill, the

highest point in theCity of London



Its dedication to Paulthe Apostle dates backto the original church

on this site, founded inAD 604.



Old St Paul's, was begun bythe Normans after the 1087 fire. Afurther fire in 1136 disrupted the

work, and the new cathedral was not

consecrated until 1240. During theperiod of construction, the style of

architecture had changedfrom Romanesque to Gothic

and…



this was reflected in the pointed

arches and larger windows of theupper parts and East End of the

building. The Gothic ribbed vault

was constructed, like that of YorkMinster, of wood rather than stone,which affected the ultimate fate of

the building.



Many of these former

religious sites in thechurchyard, having been

seized by the Crown, weresold as shops and rental

properties, especially toprinters and booksellers,

who were often Puritans.



. The present church, dating from

the late 17th century, wasdesigned in the English Baroquestyle by Sir Christopher Wren. Its

construction, completed withinWren's lifetime, was part of a

major rebuilding programmewhich took place in the city afterthe Great Fire of London



Present St Paul's



The task of designing a replacementstructure was officially assigned to SirChristopher Wren on 30 July 1669



He had previously been put incharge of the rebuilding of

churches to replace those lost in theGreat Fire. More than fifty City

churches are attributable to Wren.

Concurrent with designing StPaul's, Wren was engaged in theproduction of his five Tracts on

Architecture.



Wren had begun advising on the repair

of the Old St Paul's in 1661, five yearsbefore the Great Fire of London in1666.The proposed work includedrenovations to both interior and

exterior that would complement theClassical facade designed by Inigo

Jones in 1630



In July 1668 Dean William Sancroftwrote to Christopher Wren that he

was charged by the Archbishop ofCanterbury, in agreement with theBishops of London and Oxford, to

design a new cathedral that was"handsome and noble to all the

ends of it and to the reputation of

the City and the nation".



The design process took several years,but a design was finally settled and

attached to a royal warrant, with theproviso that Wren was permitted to

make any further changes that he

deemed necessary. The result was the present St Paul's

Cathedral, still the second largest

church in Britain and with a domeproclaimed as the finest in the world.



The building was financed by a tax oncoal, and was completed within its

architect's lifetime, and with many ofthe major contractors employed for

the duration.

The "topping out" of the cathedral(when the final stone was placed onthe lantern) took place on 26 October

1708, performed by Wren's sonChristopher Jr and the son of one of

the masons.



The cathedral was declaredofficially complete by

Parliament on 25 December 1711(Christmas Day). In fact,

construction was to continue for

several years after that, with thestatues on the roof only beingadded in the 1720s. In 1716 the

total costs amounted to£1,095,556 (£139 million in 2014).



Wren planned to replace the dilapidatedtower with a dome, using the existent

structure as a scaffold. He produced adrawing of the proposed dome, showing thatit was at this stage at which he conceived theidea that it should span both nave and aisles

at the crossing.After the fire, It was at first thought possible

to retain a substantial part of the oldcathedral, but ultimately the entire structure

was demolished in the early 1670s to startafresh.



After the fire, It was at first

thought possible to retain asubstantial part of the oldcathedral, but ultimately the entire

structure was demolished in theearly 1670s to start afresh.



On 2 December 1697, only thirty-two years and three months afterthe Great Fire destroyed Old StPaul's, the new cathedral was

consecrated for use.

The Right Reverend HenryCompton, Bishop of London,

preached the sermon.



It was based on the text of

Psalm 122, "I was glad whenthey said unto me: Let us go

into the house of the Lord."The first regular service washeld on the following

Sunday.



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