St. Paul’s Cathedral

I was early for a meeting near St. Paul’s this morning and since I have been reading about Wren in honour of his Tercentenary, particularly James Campbell’s brilliant Building St. Paul’s (not stocked by the bookshop I noticed), I wandered round it, struck as I always am, by the sense of calm orderliness, everything worked out, which is perhaps not surprising given the length of time it took to build, the number of different schemes, and the requirement that it was as much a monument to the restoration of the monarchy as to God:-

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