From Engineering Timelines : "The present St Paul's Cathedral, designed by Sir Christopher Wren, is the fourth cathedral on this site. The first two Anglo-Saxon buildings were timber, and the third a Medieval stone structure with a timber roof. All three were destroyed in turn by fire — the third one was destroyed in the Great Fire of London."
Spitalfields Life has a good post: Relics Of Old St Paul’s At New St Paul’s.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Old St Paul's Cathedral
It's certainly a vent shaft for the car park beneath, but this column, or rat...
This plaque appears to be that oddest of things, a plaque commemorating a los...
For our detail picture we show the Chapter House and Cloister which are actua...
Architect. Son of the architect George Dance the Elder, one of the 4 original members of the Royal Academy, he designed Newgate Prison and St Luke's Hospital. John Soane was his pupil. We have see...
One of the oldest building preservation trusts in the United Kingdom. It was founded by members of the newly-formed Blackheath Society as an independent and separate property company. Its original ...
A London-based idiosyncratic architecture practice. The picture we have used is from their page about the Aldgate project.
The site now covered by Essex Street and Devereux Court was once Essex House and grounds, named after Robert, Earl of Essex, Queen Elizabeth's favourite, who also led a rebellion against her which ...
