St. Paul's Cathedral
Baroque cathedral with a soaring dome, crypt, and Stone Gallery, completed by Wren in seventeen eleven.
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About this audio guide
This guide to St. Paul's Cathedral in London centers on the night of December 29, 1940, when German incendiary bombs set the City of London ablaze and one burned through the cathedral's lead dome. It follows the St. Paul's Watch, ordinary Londoners who had pledged to protect Christopher Wren's building, racing toward the falling bomb before it could ignite the timber beneath the dome. You'll hear about Churchill's personal stake in the cathedral's defence, and about a Daily Mail photographer who climbed a nearby rooftop that night. Look up at the dome, three hundred and sixty-five feet above you, as you listen.
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