85

Section of the Dome 90

The Lantern, from the Clock Tower 92

The Choir and Nave, from the East End 96

The Order of the Interior, drawn by Peter Cazalet 97

The Geometrical Staircase 101

Interior of the Dome, from an engraving by G. Coney 105

The South Choir Aisle 110

Bishop's Throne and Stalls on the South Side 111

The Choir, Altar, and Reredos 117

The Wellington Monument 123

Nelson's Monument 128

Monuments of Dr. Donne and Bishop Blomfield 131

Nelson's Tomb 133

Church of St. Faith in the Crypt 135

The Library 136

PLAN OF THE CATHEDRAL _At end_

[Illustration: SOUTH VIEW OF OLD ST. PAUL'S IN 1658.
_After the Etching by Hollar, in Dugdale's "History of St. Paul's
Cathedral."_]

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.

CHAPTER I.

ITS FOUNDATION AND HISTORY TO THE ACCESSION OF DEAN COLET (61-1505).

=Romano-British.=--Tacitus, in his characteristically concise style,
introduces London into authentic history during the apostolic era and
the reign of Nero.[1] Suetonius Paulinus, governor of Britain, came in
hot haste from Mona, suspending the slaughter of the Druid leaders in
this their last fastness, to restore the Roman arms. For Boadicea,
Queen of the Iceni, outraged at the treatment of herself and her two
daughters, had, like a second Deborah, raised a popular uprising
against the foreign invaders. Colchester fallen, the ninth legion
annihilated, nothing remained but to abandon the thriving mart of
London itself for a time to the fury of the natives, before the Roman
sway could be restored.

The ground rising both from the northern bank of the Thames, some
three hundred yards distant, and from the eastern bank of the Fleet
beck, forms an eminence. Here, to protect the riverside mart below, on
or about the site of the present churchyard the Romans formed a camp;
and looking down what is now Lud