St Paul's Cathedral

St Paul’s Cathedral is one of the most iconic buildings in London. The current Cathedral, built by Sir Christopher Wren, is the 5th St Paul’s built on the site at the top of Ludgate Hill, the first one being built in 604. Until 1963. it was the tallest building in London at 365 feet. It’s also the second-largest church in the U.K. after the Liverpool Anglican cathedral.

Admiral Nelson and the first Duke of Wellington are buried in the crypt along with many others. It was also where the ill-fated wedding of Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer took place.

Wren’s original design called for St Paul’s had a Greek cross i.e. where the nave and transepts are equal sizes. But this was rejected and instead was built as a Latin cross i.e. where the transepts are shorter than the nave.

My trip to St Paul’s came about because I used my Pixel 6 Pro to take a few photos on my visit to Salisbury cathedral. I was very impressed with the 20 times digital zoom photos and I wondered if I could take photos of a cathedral just using it. Hence my visit to St Paul’s.

All of these photos were taken on the Pixel 6 Pro, I used the phone on its automatic settings. The only editing that I’ve done is cropping, they are as they came out of the phone. I did use the ‘magic eraser’ on a couple of the photos. I included both versions so you can see what a good, but not perfect, job it did on removing people.