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The Bulletin
Fix this text•The Bulletin,” VoL 72—No. 3700
Fix this textWednesday, January 10, 1951
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Fix this textRegistered at the General Post Office, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, for Transmission by Post as a Newspaper.
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Fix this textST.PAUL'S, OF LONDON, THE EMPIRE'S PARISH CHURCH
Fix this textTOWERING above London’s streaming traffic on Ludgate Hill is St. Paul’s,
Fix this textconsidered to be the finest Renaissance in Europe. It was the
Fix this textwork of one man, Sir Christopher Wren. England's greatest architect, and it
Fix this textstands upon a site first occupied by a Christian church founded in the seventh
Fix this textcentury and endowed by Ethelbert, King of Kent. This was burned down in
Fix this text1087; its Norman successor was partly destroyed by fire in 1136 and Old
Fix this textSt. Paul’s vanished in the flames of the Great Fire of 1666.
Fix this textAn entirely new Cathedral was planned by Wren, and building commenced
Fix this textin the year 1675, during the reign of Charles 11. Hampered by authority and
Fix this textopposed by ignorance, he worked on it for thirty-five years in an atmosphere
Fix this textof bitterness and frustration and, in addition, had the greatest difficulty in
Fix this textgetting his four pounds a week for himself and the wages for his men. By
Fix this textthe time the last stone was placed in position, by his son, in 1710, during the
Fix this textreign of Queen Anne, Christopher Wren was so feeble that he had to be
Fix this textcarried to the top of his noble building in a basket. Most of the £748,000
Fix this textspent on the Cathedral before the year 1723 was raised by a tax on sea-borne
Fix this textcoal entering London.
Fix this textThe great dome, 112 feet in diameter and weighing 700 tons, is surmounted
Fix this textby a ball and cross, the top of which is 365 feet from the ground. Within
Fix this textthe dome is the famous Whispering Gallery, renowned for its power of
Fix this textcarrying sound —a whisper will travel a distance of a hundred yards around
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Fix this textSt. Paul’s survived the Second World War only by a miracle when enemy
Fix this textbombs devastated the surrounding area. It received two direct hits and stood
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Fix this textwhich had penetrated the foundations. When the dust and smoke had
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