2-861-053 - Historic England Archive/Heritage Images

St Paul's Cathedral, St Paul's Churchyard, City of London, City and County of the City of London, Greater London Authority, 1941-1945. A view from the north-east showing the dome of St Paul's Cathedral through a gap between buildings, with the top of the tower of St Alban's Church on Wood Street behind a bomb damaged building in the foreground. St Alban's Church was rebuilt by Christopher Wren after the Great Fire of London in 1666. During the Second World War it was destroyed by bombing with only the tower surviving.