Architecture
_Roman London_--_The Beginning of Christian London_--_The English Conquest and London once more Heathen_--_The Conversion_--_Bishop Mellitus_--_King Sebert_--_The First Cathedral_--_Its Destruction_--_Foundation of the Second Cathedral by Bishop Maurice_--_Another Destructive...
_Fresh signs of Decay and Neglect_--_Visit of James I._--_Bishop Earle's Account of Paul's Walk_--_Laud's Letter to the Citizens_ --_Sir Paul Pindar's Munificence_--_The Rebelli...
5. Chapter 5_Good Dean Colet_--_Accession of Henry VIII._--_Papal Favour_ --_Cardinal Wolsey at St. Paul's_--_Bishop Fisher's Preaching at Paul's Cross_--_Fall of Wolsey_--_Alienation of th...
4. Chapter 4_The First Cathedral_--_Mellitus and his Troubles_--_Erkenwald_ --_Theodred_ "_the Good_"--_William the Norman, his Epitaph_ --_The Second Cathedral_--_Lanfranc and Anselm hold...
6. Chapter 6We have recorded the building of the Cathedral and some of the principal national events of which it was the scene. But it is also necessary, if our conception of its history is...
3. Chapter 3The aspect of the Nave, on entering the western door, must have been magnificent. There were twelve bays to the nave, then the four mighty pillars supporting the tower, then the...
1. Chapter 1_Roman London_--_The Beginning of Christian London_--_The English Conquest and London once more Heathen_--_The Conversion_--_Bishop Mellitus_--_King Sebert_--_The First Cathedra...
2. Chapter 2A wall was built round the churchyard in 1109, but was greatly strengthened in 1285. The churchyard had got such a bad character for robberies, fornications, even murders, that...