st Paul's Cathedral

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ST PAUL’S CATHEDRAL
The designe of St. Paul’s Cathedral was influenced by:
• Michelangelo
• Borromini
• Bramante
• Borromini
It conveys of elegance and solidity.

Its main exterior characteristics are:
• It is the cathedral of the city of London
• It replaced the old Gothic cathedral destroyed in the great fire of London in 1666
• It was begun in 1675 and was finished in 1710
• It has a Latin cross plan
• It is a Renaissance building
• It has two storeys
• It has two Baroque towers above the double portico façade
• It has an upper and lower portico in the front
• It has a great dome
• The lower inner drum, its peristyle, the upper drum and the lantern are of stone
• The drum is surrounded by columns
• A balustrade runs round the dome
• A kind of attic decorated with pilasters and square windows is above the drum
• The lantern above the dome is surmounted by a cross
• The pediment contains a relief
• The curved surface of the dome with vertical ribs is of lead on a wooden structure
• The columns on the ground floor are coupled

The interior characteristics are:
• Amplitude
• Great ornamentation
• There are the equestrian monument to Wellington, the monument to Nelson
• The wrought-iron gates of the choir
• The stalls carved by G. Gibbons
• The crypt (where Wren is buried)