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Wherever its predecessor was sited, central London property
the successor building within the reoccupied City (tpq 886
AD) was destroyed in a "most fatal fire" in 962,
as mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Presumably it was
made of timber.
The third cathedral was begun in 962, perhaps in stone. In
it was buried Ethelred the Unready. It burnt, with the whole
city, Central London property in a fire in 1087 (Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle).
[edit] 'Old St Paul's'
Main article: Old St Paul's Cathedral
Old St Paul's prior to 1561, with intact spire
The fourth St Paul's (known as Old St Paul's, Central London
property a 19th century coinage, or the pre-Great Fire St
Paul's) was begun by the Normans after the 1087 fire. Work
took over 200 years, and a great deal was lost in a fire in
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Central London property the roof was once
more built of wood, which was ultimately to doom the building.
The church was consecrated in 1240, but a change of heart
led to the commencement of an enlargement programme in 1256.
This 'New Work' was completed in 1314 - the cathedral had
been consecrated in 1300. It was the third-longest church
in Europe. Excavations in 1878 by Francis Penrose showed it
was 585 feet (178 m) long and 100 feet (30 m) wide (290 feet
or 87 m across Central London property the transepts and crossing),
and had one of Europe's tallest spires, at some 489 feet (149
m).
By the 16th century central London property the
building was decaying. Under Henry VIII and Edward VI, the
Dissolution of the Monasteries and Chantries Acts led to the
destruction of interior ornamentation and the cloisters, charnels,
crypts, chapels, shrines, chantries and other buildings in
the churchyard.
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Many of these former religious sites in St Paul's Churchyard,
having been seized by the crown, central London property were
sold as shops and rental properties, especially to printers
and booksellers, who were often evangelical Protestants. Buildings
that were razed often supplied ready-dressed building material
for construction projects, such as the Lord Protector's city
palace, Somerset House.
Crowds were drawn to the northeast corner of the Churchyard,
St Paul's Cross, where open-air preaching took place. In 1561
the spire was central London property destroyed by lightning
and it was not replaced; this event was taken by both Protestants
and Catholics as a sign of God's displeasure at the other
faction's actions.
England's first classical architect, Sir Inigo Jones, added
the cathedral's west front in the 1630s, but there was much
central London property defacing mistreatment of the building
by Parliamentarian forces during the Civil War, when the old
documents and charters were dispersed and destroyed (Kelly
2004).
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