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The north-west tower Houses for Sale London contains 13 bells hung for change ringing while the south-west contains four, including Great Paul, at 16? tons[16]- the largest bell in the British Isles, cast in 1881, and Great Tom (the hour bell), recast twice, the last time by Richard Phelps, after being moved from St. Stephen's Chapel at the Palace of Westminster. The bell is only rung on occasions of a death in the royal family, the Bishop of London, or London's mayor, although Houses for Sale London an exception was made at the death of US President James Garfield.[14]

Post-Wren history Houses for Sale London

This cathedral has survived despite being targeted during the Blitz- it was struck by Houses for Sale London bombs on 10 October 1940 and 17 April 1941. On 12 September 1940 a time-delayed bomb that had struck the cathedral was successfully defused and removed by a Bomb Disposal detachment of Royal Engineers under Houses for Sale London the command of Temporary Lieutenant Robert Davies. Had this bomb detonated, it would have totally destroyed the Cathedral, as it left a 100-foot (30 m) crater when it was later remotely detonated in a secure location.[17] As a result of this action, Davies was awarded the George Cross, along with Sapper George Cameron Wylie.[18]
St Paul's during The Blitz

Houses for Sale London on 29 December 1940, the cathedral had another close call when an incendiary bomb became lodged in the lead shell of the dome but fell outwards onto the Stone Gallery and was put out before it could ignite the dome timbers. A photograph taken that day showing the cathedral shrouded in smoke became a famous image of the times.

Memorials
An aerial view of St Pauls
View from the Millennium Bridge

The cathedral has a very substantial crypt, holding over 200 memorials, and serves as both the Order of the British Empire Chapel and the Treasury Houses for Sale London. The cathedral has very few treasures: many have been lost, and in 1810 a major robbery took almost all of the remaining precious artefacts. Christopher Wren was the first person to be interred, in 1723: on the wall above his tomb in the crypt is written, "Lector, si monumentum requiris, circumspice" (Reader, if you seek his monument, look around you).

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St Paul's is home to other plaques, carvings, Houses for Sale London statues, memorials and tombs of famous British figures including:

* General Sir Isaac Brock
* Sir Edwin Lutyens
* John Donne, whose funeral effigy, portraying him in a shroud, but not his tomb, survives from Old St Paul's.
* Lord Kitchener
* The Duke of Wellington[14]
* Lord Horatio Nelson[14]
* Henry Moore Houses for Sale London
* Sir William Alexander Smith
* Sir Winston Churchill
* T. E. Lawrence, whose bust faces Nelson's sarcophagus
* Sir Alexander Fleming
* Sir Arthur Sullivan
* Florence Nightingale
* J. M. W. Turner[14]
* Sir Joshua Reynolds[14]
* Dr. Samuel Johnson[14]
* Ivor Novello
* Charles Cornwallis Houses for Sale London
* Frederick George Jackson