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Information for pre-booked school visits

All the information needed in advance of your school visit if you have booked through our schools booking portal.

Richard is a white man with short grey hair and black rimmed glasses. He wears a clerical collar and black shirt under a casual light jacket and stands holding onto the wooden railing of a boat or a jetty on a lake. The shoreline in the distance has trees, and some buildings, and there are mountains in the distant background. The sky is pale blue with some clouds and the sun is shining on Richard.

Advent Reflections from Jerusalem

Richard Sewell, Dean of St George's College in Jerusalem, reflects on Advent in the Holy Land.

Arun Arora and Paula Gooder on screen in conversation

Sticking with Love: Advent with saints of every tribe and nation

Arun Arora and Paula Gooder share their passion for Advent and reflect on some of the inspiring stories of faith.

Paula Gooder speaking in the Wren Suite at St Paul's Cathedral

Entertaining Angels Unawares: Angels in the Bible

Paula Gooder explores what angels are and what they do in the Old and New Testaments.

Monument to Harry Smith Parkes

Sir Harry Smith Parkes (1828-85)

Learn about the monument to Sir Harry Smith Parkes and the East India Company, with this piece written by Renie Chow Choy.

Map of the East India Company in South Asia

The East India Company and the monuments at St Paul's

Learn about how the Cathedral’s monuments relate to the East India Company’s history and activities on the Indian subcontinent.

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About the project

Find out more about this community engagement project, and how we worked with Stepney Community Trust and individuals of South Asian heritage to co-research and co-curate Cathedral monuments related to the East India Company.

New Chapter members installed at St Paul's Cathedral in 2023.

Four new Chapter members for St Paul's

Four Non-Executive Members have been appointed to The Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral, the trustee body responsible for its governance, strategy and oversight.

A screenshot of Eve Poole and Paula Gooder smiling during their online conversation.

Robot Souls: AI and what it means to be human

Eve Poole and Paula Gooder talk about AI and why it draws us into the big questions about existence. What does it means to be human? What is a soul? What really matters about human life?

Alan Smith, a black man with bald head and black glasses wearing a navy blazer over a pale blue shirt, stands in front of large glass windows.

Fair Money

Alan Smith considers issues of equality, fairness and justice in money and the economy.

Monument to the Duke of Wellington

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852)

Learn about the monument to Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, and the East India Company with this piece written by Abdul Sabur Kidwai.

Monument to Charles George Gordon

Charles George Gordon (1833-85)

Learn about the monument to Charles George Gordon and the East India Company with this piece written by Amrita Shodhan.

Monument to Indian Army Volunteers

Indian Army Volunteers

Learn about the monument to Indian Army Volunteers and the East India Company with this piece written by Gopal Gurung.

Monument Bishop Thomas Fanshaw Middleton

Bishop Thomas Fanshaw Middleton (1769-1822): The art

Learn about the monument to Bishop Thomas Fanshaw Middleton and the East India Company with this piece written by Naajia Ahmed.

Claire Gilbert is a white woman with short grey hair wearing a yellow sweater and smiling to the audience. She stands in front of the sunlit alcove in the Wren Suite of the Cathedral.

Julian Of Norwich: Environmental Wisdom for the 21st Century

Claire Gilbert explores how Julian of Norwich’s spirituality can help awaken and transform our ecological consciousness.

A screen shot of Judy Fentress-Williams, a black woman black hair tied back, wearing a clerical collar and a brightly patterned top and sitting in front of a bookcase and window with white wooden blinds, and Paula Gooder, a white woman with long blond hair sitting beside a pale painted wall with a corner of a fireplace behind her.

Holy Imagination: poetry and authority in the Bible

Judy Fentress-Williams and Paula Gooder talk about the beautiful, inspiring and difficult parts of the Bible, why we should read it like poetry, and what Biblical authority really means.

Rowan Williams stands at a lectern on stage at St Paul's Cathedral

My Spirit Rejoices: Mary, the Mother of Jesus

Rowan Williams explores Mary’s life in the Gospels, from the Annunciation to the Cross and Pentecost: a story where heaven and earth come close together.

Chine, a black woman with long dark hair wearing a patterned black dress, speaks at the lectern in the Wren Suite of St Paul's Cathedral.

God is Not a White Man

Chine McDonald reflects on what happens when we face hard and painful truths about race, identity and the imago Dei - the idea that every human, no matter what their colour, has a special quality that resembles the divine beauty of God.

Karen is a white woman with light wavy hair pinned up and glasses, wearing a pale green rollneck sweater, smiling at someone to the side of the camera.

Light and darkness

Karen Kilby reflects on faith in times of light and darkness.

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St Paul’s earns award for school outreach work

St Paul’s Cathedral has been awarded the 2023 Sandford Award for Heritage Education, in recognition of the “exemplary” work carried out by our Schools and Family Learning team.