Travel Reference
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St. Paul's Cathedral
Bell Tower
North
Transept
Lord Mayor's
Vestry
5
Minor Canon's
Vestry
Maj. Gen.
Gordon
Maj. Gen.
Gordon
3
Sir Joshua
Reynolds
Sir Joshua
Reynolds
Dr. Samuel
Johnson
2
6
4
Cho
ir
Nave
Dome
8
1
7
10
9
12
15
14
Dean's
Vestry
13
South
Transept
11
4
0
100 ft
0
30 m
All Souls' Chapel
2
American Memorial Chapter
8
Anglican Martyr's Chapel
6
Chapel of St. Michael
& St. George
14
Dean's Staircase
15
Entrance to Crypt
(Wren's grave)
11
Font
5
High Altar
7
Lady Chapel
9
Nelson Monument
12
Pulpit
10
St. Dunstan's Chapel
3
Staircase to Library,
Whispering Gallery & Dome
13
Wellington Monument
4
West Doorway
1
“Expanding City: 1666-1850” (including a re-created 18th-century prison and a
240-year-old printing press); “People's City: 1850s-1940s” (walk a replica Victorian
street); and “World City: 1950s-Today” (explore an interactive model of the Thames),
as well as perhaps the museum's most eye-catching exhibit, the
Lord Mayor's
Coach,
a gilt-and-scarlet fairytale carriage built in 1757.
London Wall, EC2.
&
020/7001-9844.
www.museumoflondon.org.uk. Free admission. Daily 10am-
6pm. Tube: St. Paul's or Barbican.
St. Paul's Cathedral
CATHEDRAL London's skyline has changed
dramatically during the past three centuries. Buildings have come and gone, architec-
tural styles have waxed and waned, but throughout there has been one constant—the
great plump dome of St. Paul's Cathedral gazing beatifically down upon the city.
Despite the best intentions of the Luftwaffe and modern skyscraper designers, Sir
Christopher Wren's masterpiece is still the defining landmark of the City skyline—
and it's never looked so good. Preparations for its 300th anniversary (in 2008) saw the
cathedral scrubbed and swabbed inside and out until it positively gleamed.
The interior is a neck-craningly large space. Dotted around at ground level are
tombs and memorials to various British heroes, including the Duke of Wellington,
