. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . ST. The site now occupied by the Cathedral of St. Paul, by far themost important ecclesiastical building in the style of the Renais-sance which exists in England, has for long been the position of themother church of London. Two cathedrals had already been built,had received for generations their crowds of worshippers, and hadbeen swept away, before Sir Christopher Wren laid the foundationsof the great structure whicli now rises from the summit of LudgateHill. The site, indeed, was holy ground
. Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial . ST. The site now occupied by the Cathedral of St. Paul, by far themost important ecclesiastical building in the style of the Renais-sance which exists in England, has for long been the position of themother church of London. Two cathedrals had already been built,had received for generations their crowds of worshippers, and hadbeen swept away, before Sir Christopher Wren laid the foundationsof the great structure whicli now rises from the summit of LudgateHill. The site, indeed, was holy ground at a still earlier time. Here the Romanshad built a temple, and had dedicated it, so antiquaries say, to Diana. Brito-Romangraves, as well as those of Saxon date, were found by Sir Christopher Wren indigging the foundations for a part of the cathedral. The temple fell into ruins,like so many other Roman buildings, after their troops had abandoned the island,and in the seventh century Ethelbert of Kent founded a monastery, which heendowed with the manor of Tillingham, in Essex, and dedicated to St. P
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