Sacred London

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St Paul's Cathedral

Wren's dome, and the whole of the City arranged around it for three hundred years.

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Coming down the steps, 29 July 1981. Photo by the White House Photographic Office, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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The fifth cathedral on the site, and the one Wren spent thirty-five years building after the Great Fire; it was finished in 1711. The dome is really three domes. There is an inner one, shallow enough to look right from the floor; a brick cone hidden inside it, which carries the weight of the stone lantern on top; and the outer one in lead, the shape that shows above the rooftops from half of London and that planning law protects by keeping certain views of it clear. The Whispering Gallery runs round the inside of it, and the crypt holds Nelson, Wellington and Wren himself, under an inscription that tells the reader to look around for his monument.

Where
St Paul's Churchyard, EC4M 8AD
Nearest station
St. Paul's · 2 min walk

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Hours

Monday08:30 – 16:30
Tuesday08:30 – 16:30
Wednesday08:30 – 16:30
Thursday08:30 – 16:30
Friday08:30 – 16:30
Saturday08:30 – 16:30
SundayClosed

Hours from the page that lists them, checked 5 September 2026.

Last entry 16:00, £27; the dome galleries from 09:30. Sundays for worship, which is free.

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