Persevering
The internal domes, the whispering gallery, John Evelyn's candlelit discovery of the man who would carve several tons of wood for St Paul's, architect Christopher Wren being hoisted aloft in a basket to inspect progress and the American memorial are all part of the story of St Paul's .
Thirty-two years after the Great Fire of London had burned down the old St Paul's cathedral, the new cathedral of St Paul's opened on 2 December 1697. Wren was 76 years old. He had been working for the last three decades to build more than 50 London churches and to get St Paul's right.
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