Old St Paul's Cathedral

The Cathedral, as it would have appeared in 1561.

Old Saint Paul's Cathedral was the medieval cathedral of the City of London. It was one of the largest churches in northern Europe. It was started in 1087, under William the Conqueror, after a fire destroyed the old cathedral in the same year. It was not complete until 1314. In 1666, it burned down in the Great Fire of London. After that, Christopher Wren built a new cathedral on the same site.

Old St Paul's Cathedral Media

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  St Erkenwald, foundational figure in the history of St Paul's Cathedral

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  Shrine of St Erkenwald, relics removed 1550, lost as a monument in the Great Fire of London

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  A 15th-century monastic funeral procession entering Old St Paul's. The coffin is covered by a blue and gold pall, and the grave is being dug in the foreground.

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  Old St Paul's, still with its spire, as shown on the "Copperplate" map of the 1550s

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  Wenceslas Hollar's engraving of the cathedral nave, "Paul's walk"

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  John Franklin's illustration of Paul's Walk for William Harrison Ainsworth's 1841 novel Old Saint Paul's

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  A sermon preached from St Paul's Cross (bottom left) in 1614

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  Rose window of Old St Paul's Cathedral (spire no longer in place after the fire of 1561)

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  A graffito executed on a wall of St Mary's Church, Ashwell in Hertfordshire is believed to show Old St Paul's Cathedral.