British Cathedrals

St Paul's Cathedral

• St Paul's Cathedral, London, is a Church of England cathedral and seat of the Bishop of London. Its dedication to Paul the Apostle dates back to the original church on this site, founded in AD 604.

• St Paul's sits at the top of Ludgate Hill, the highest point in the City of London.

• The present church dating from the late 17th century was built to an English Baroque design of Sir Christopher Wren, as part of a major rebuilding program which took place in the city after the Great Fire of London, and was completed within his lifetime.

Memorials

• The cathedral has a very substantial crypt, holding over 200 memorials, and serves as both the Order of the British Empire Chapel and the Treasury.

• The cathedral has very few treasures: many have been lost, and in 1810 a major robbery took almost all of the remaining precious artefacts.

• Christopher Wren was the first person to be interred, in 1723: on the wall above his tomb in the crypt is written,

• "Lector, si monumentum requiris, circumspice" (Reader, if you seek his monument, look around you).

Canterbury Cathedral

• Canterbury Cathedral in Canterbury, Kent, is one of the oldest and most famous Christian structures in England and forms part of a World Heritage Site.

• It is the cathedral of the Archbishop of Canterbury, leader of the Church of England and symbolic leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion.

• Its formal title is the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Christ at Canterbury.

Christ Church Cathedral

Christ Church Cathedral

• Christ Church Cathedral is the cathedral of the diocese of Oxford, which consists of the counties of Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire.

• It is also, uniquely, the chapel of Christ Church, a college of the University of Oxford.