There was once a hospital underneath St Pauls’ CathedralThe grand staircase in front of St Paul’s Cathedral once had underneath it a small hospital staffed by volunteers in the days before the NHS.
The St Lawrence Jewry memorial drinking fountainA grand Victorian drinking fountain sits next to St Paul’s Cathedral, but it wasn’t there originally and only ended up there due to WW2.
Shepherd and Sheep in Paternoster SquareIn Paternoster Square is a sculpture of a shepherd and sheep, also called Paternoster – the sculpture that is, not the sheep. They are unnamed.
Another public roof garden planned near St Paul’s CathedralPlans to revamp an existing office block next to St Paul’s tube station could see a large roof garden open to the public added to the top.
Tickets Alert: The Messiah in St Paul’s CathedralAn annual tradition is being continued this Christmas, with a powerful performance of Handel’s Messiah in St Paul’s Cathedral.
See St Paul’s Cathedral lit up this weekendThis weekend, a huge video projection will be beamed onto the frontage of St Paul’s Cathedral, and some photos of the overnight tests have been released.
Tickets Alert: Evening openings at St Paul’s CathedralOver four nights in August, it will be possible to go into the mighty stone edifice and see it in the twilight hours.
The three smallest monuments in St Paul’s CathedralA Cathedral packed with monuments, here are the three smallest – military brasses, Solomons temple… and a piece of King Herod’s 2nd Jerusalem Temple, maybe.
The year St Paul’s Cathedral nearly lost its domeIt’s Christmas Eve 1924 and while people are preparing for the festivities, the City of London is busy preparing an urgent notice – they plan to close St Paul’s Cathedral.
London’s Alleys: Panyer Alley, EC2An alley that can be traced all the way back to Tudor London, with a famously enigmatic stone plaque on one wall.
St Paul’s Cathedral drops photography banSt Paul’s Cathedral has decided to allow photography within the building, overturning a ban that was often surreptitiously ignored anyway.
London’s Alleys: St Paul’s Alley, EC4This is London’s shortest alley, and also one that you can’t actually walk down any more as modern gates replicate a medieval barrier.
Tickets Alert: Handel’s Messiah at St Paul’s CathedralAn annual tradition is being continued this Christmas, with an uplifting rendition of Handel’s Messiah in St Paul’s Cathedral.
Ordinarily, visitors to St Paul’s Cathedral during the day are not supposed to take photos, but for five evenings, the Cathedral is opening its doors to photographers.
Earlier this week, the bells of St Pauls’ were removed from the Cathedral, and sent back to their makers for repairs.
These massive stainless steel sculptural artworks near St Paul’s Cathedral are both art and function – for they are also ventilation shafts for an electricity substation in the basement underneath.
A rather fine pocket park in the City of London that is not managed by the City of London. And unlike other parks, it doesn’t have a name.
The bells of St Paul’s Cathedral are to be removed later this month for restoration work, meaning that the Cathedral’s celebratory bells will fall silent until late next year.
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