St Paul's Cathedral
The dome Londoners watched refuse to fall through the Blitz — Churchill ordered fire crews to save it above all else.
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Wren's rebuild after the 1666 Great Fire, finished 1710: a 111 m (365 ft) double-shell dome whose hidden brick cone carries the stone lantern, above the largest crypt in Europe. It has staged the funerals of Nelson, Wellington and Churchill, and Charles and Diana's 1981 wedding.
What to look for
- Jean Tijou's wrought-iron gates and balustrades
- Grinling Gibbons' carved woodwork inside — and the stone pediment he cut over the north portal
- The 1673 Great Model: Wren's oak-and-plaster design, over 13 ft tall, still kept in the cathedral
St Paul's tube is 130 yards from the door; adult entry was £25 (2024), free if you come for a service.
St Paul's Cathedral is one of 40 sights worth the detour in London, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the London pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in London
- British MuseumThe room where a dead language got its voice back — and you walk in for free.
- Buckingham PalaceThe balcony where a whole country turns up to watch a family wave — with 775 rooms behind it.
- Westminster AbbeyNearly every English monarch since 1066 has been crowned on the same worn patch of floor.
- Big BenThe clang in a thousand establishing shots comes from a cracked bell that's rung slightly off-key since 1859.
- Tower of LondonWilliam the Conqueror's keep turned royal prison, where two queens lost their heads and the Crown Jewels still sit under guard.
- Tower BridgeA Victorian drawbridge dressed as a Gothic castle, its roadway still splitting open for passing ships.