Do you wish Old St Paul’s had survived? While the present St Paul’s is a masterpiece of the English Baroque, the old St Paul’s would have been a magnificent building had it survived. The cathedral would have been one hundred feet longer than Salisbury Cathedral and its spire was the second tallest, only beaten by Lincoln Cathedral’s long lost spire. The medieval cathedral also had some of the earliest Perpendicular Gothic architecture in England, and a shrine to St Erkenwald. However, by the tim
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Do you wish Old St Paul’s had survived? While the present St Paul’s is a masterpiece of the English Baroque, the old St Paul’s would have been a magnificent building had it survived. The cathedral would have been one hundred feet longer than Salisbury Cathedral and its spire was the second tallest, only beaten by Lincoln Cathedral’s long lost spire. The medieval cathedral also had some of the earliest Perpendicular Gothic architecture in England, and a shrine to St Erkenwald. However, by the tim
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