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The nave has three small chapels London homes in the two
adjoining aisles – All Souls and St Dunstan's in the north
aisle and the Chapel of the Order of St Michael and St George
in the south aisle. The main space of the cathedral is centred
under the Dome; it rises 108.4 metres from the cathedral floor
and holds three circular galleries – the internal Whispering
Gallery, the external Stone Gallery, and the external Golden
Gallery.
The Whispering Gallery runs around the London homes interior
of the Dome and is 99 feet (30.2 m) above the cathedral floor.
It is reached by 259 steps from London homesground level.
It gets its name because a whisper against its wall at any
point is audible to a listener with an ear held to the wall
at any other point around the gallery. This works only for
whispered speech - normal voiced speech is not focused in
this way.
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London homes details of the towers at the
west end (illustration, left) and their dark voids are boldly
scaled, in order to read well from the street below and from
a distance, for the towers have always stood out in the urban
skyline. They are composed of two complementary elements,
a central cylinder rising through the tiers in a series of
stacked drums, and paired Corinthian London homes columns
at the corners, with buttresses above them, which serve to
unify the drum shape with the square block plinth containing
the clock. The main entablature breaks forward over the paired
columns to express both elements, tying them together in a
single horizontal band. The cap, London homes like
a bell-shaped miniature dome, supports a gilded finial, a
pinecone supported on four scrolling angled brackets, the
topmost expression of the consistent theme.
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