Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-04-08
ST. PAUL CATHEDRAL.
Most Noted English Church with {
Story.

Even the war could not stop work
on st. Paul's Cathedral in London.
The famous church, like the English
constitution, represents a growth of
centuries and not a definite period of
construction"
This statement is made in bulle-
tin Of the national geographic society
in connection with a London dispatch
which notes a request for additional
funds to complete repair work on st.
Pauls.
"England's esteem for the historic
edifice IS shown by the continuation of
the restoration work throughout the
war despite the interruption to practi-
cally all other buildings" the bulletin
says.
Still fresh in public memory is the
notable Service of Conservation at
tended by royalty and distinguished
Americans then in Lonon, held in st.
Pauls April 20, 1917 to commemorate
the entry of the United States into
war.
"St. Paul's Is the largest Protestant
church in the world. Its dome is one
Of the most beautiful. The church en-
bodies architectural ideas Of many
periods, because it Is not the product
of a generation, or even a century.
True, Sir Christopher Wren is credi-
ted with the structure as it stands to-
day, but he embodied many features
of the famous Old st. Pau's' razed
in the great London fire 1866. Wren
did not wish the restoration to be
after the 'Gothick Rudeness Of the old
design But he was compelled to
modify his own plans to a considerable
extent said he, of the balustrade add
I'd over his veto, Ladies think nothing
we'll without an edging.'
ITO this famous mathematician. as
sronomer, and architect the London
fire blew much good. He had COM
missions to draw plans for rebuild
ing half a hundred churches. From
these were modelled many Of the Amer
lean churches of Colonial days. For his
masterpiece, st. Paups Sir Christopher
IS said to have received less than the
equivalent Of $1,000 year, an amount
which might engage the attention of a
modern architect Of his standing for
an afternoons consultation. The build
ing was paid for by a tax on sea-
borne coal to London.
Travellers are apt to pass by an in
scription on the south porch pediment,
Resurgam' Il shall rise again) as a
religious reference to the Resurrec-
ton. When the architect was sur
veying the ruins he wished to mark
the center Of the projected dome. He
asked q workman to hand him a stone.
The workman chanced to pick up a
chip from an old tomb bearing the
inscription, which Sir Christopher
adopted.
1.-The motto was appropriate. Some
historians believe the cramped Lud-
gate Hill site originally was that OF a
Roman shrine Of Diana. A Christian
church is known to have been built
there in the early seventh century. It
was burned two decades after William
the Conqueror came to England. From
the ruins emerged Old st. Paurs.
Fire destroyed that building too, but
II WAS restored on an even more pre-
tentious scale.
"At the old st. Paurs' John
Wycliffe faced the charge of heresy
Tyndale's New Testament was burned
Wolsey heard the reading Of the Pap
al condemnation Of Luther, and under
'Powle's Cross, now marked by men,
orial, heretics were forced to recant
and witches to confess.
Even before the great fire old St
Paurs was crumbling, partly from a