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10 January 2022 We are delighted to have received funding from the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund for a new community engagement project.
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4th May 2025
In anticipation of the 80th anniversary of VE Day this May, BBC’s Songs of Praise paid a visit to the Cathedral to explore our role in the Second World War and the celebrations that marked the end of the conflict in Europe on 8th May 1945.
Learn about the origins of our magnificent Grand Organ, and find the specifications of our other organs.
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16th March 2026
In February, ZDF (a German TV broadcaster) visited our workshops to see the stonemasons and carpenters in action and hear from mason apprentice Henry Stanley on his experience so far working and training at the Cathedral.
2022 heralds the Platinum Jubilee year for Her Majesty The Queen, marking 70 years of service to the people of the United Kingdom, the Realms and the Commonwealth.
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15th May 2024
Their Majesties The King and Queen attended St Paul’s Cathedral on the 15th May, for a Service of Dedication for the Order of the British Empire.
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Atonement
Bible
Good Friday
Holy Week
Jesus
Poetry
Redemption
Salvation
The cross
Holy Week
Paula Gooder and Mark Oakley explore the mystery, the glory and the scandal of the Cross. Through scripture and poetry, they open up something of what we might learn from it not only of sin and reconciliation but also of love and new life, of who Jesus really was, and also what it means to follow his call to take up our own cross.
The design, construction and decoration of the choir enclosure and sanctuary occupied Wren and his assistants at least four and a half years.
The earliest known scheme to improve the Cathedral churchyard is an outline study by Wren and Hawksmoor, drawn over a survey of the whole precinct prepared by William Dickinson.