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St. Paul's Anglican Cathedral
St. Paul's Anglican Cathedral
London, England
"St Paul's Cathedral, London, is an Anglican cathedral, the seat of the Bishop of London and the mother church of the Diocese of London. It sits on Ludgate Hill at the highest point of the City of London and is a Cathedral, dating from the late 17th century, was designed in the English Baroque style by Sir Christopher Wren. Its construction, completed in Wren's lifetime, was part of a major rebuilding programme in the City after the Great Fire of London.
"The cathedral is one of the most famous and most recognizable sights of London. Its dome, framed by the spires of Wren's City churches, has dominated the skyline for over 300 years."[At 365 feet (111 m) high, it was the tallest building in London from 1710 to 1967. The dome is among the highest in the world. St Paul's is the second-largest church building in area in the United Kingdom after Liverpool
St. Paul's Anglican Cathedral
"St Paul's is unusual among cathedrals in that there is a crypt, the largest in Europe,
"Internally, St Paul's has a nave and choir in each of its three bays....
"A clock was installed in the south-west tower by Langley Bradley in 1709 but was worn out by the end of the 19th century....The present mechanism was built in 1893.
"The organ was commissioned from Bernard Smith in 1694.[59] The current instrument is the third-largest [57] in Great Britain in terms of number of pipes (7,189), with 5 manuals, 189 ranks of pipes and 138 stops, enclosed in an impressive case designed in Wren's workshop and decorated by Grinling Gibbons
"A clock was installed in the south-west tower by Langley Bradley in 1709 but was worn out by the end of the 19th century....The present mechanism was built in 1893.
"The organ was commissioned from Bernard Smith in 1694.[59] The current instrument is the third-largest [57] in Great Britain in terms of number of pipes (7,189), with 5 manuals, 189 ranks of pipes and 138 stops, enclosed in an impressive case designed in Wren's workshop and decorated by Grinling Gibbons
"The southwest tower also contains four bells, of which Great Paul, cast in 1881... at 16
1⁄2 long tons (16,800 kg) was the largest bell in the British Isles until the casting of the Olympic Bell for the 2012 London Olympics" (Link.)
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Photos: Taken by RW in Oct. 2018 with Iphone while travelling in London.
Link : Cathedral.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Paul%27s_Cathedralade I listed building.
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