2-699-001 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Rebuilding of St. Paul's', (1897). The medieval cathedral church of the City of London was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. Sir Christopher Wren was commissioned to design the new cathedral. The foundation stone was laid in 1675, and it was consecrated in 1697. From Old and New London, Volume I, by Walter Thornbury. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris & Melbourne, 1897]