St. Paul's Cathedral

St. Paul's Cathedral, or Saint Paul's Cathedral, is an cathedral, the seat of the Bishop of London, and the mother church of the Diocese of London. It sits on at the highest point of the City of London.
==History==
===Middle Age===
In 604 CE, the first wooden church was built in the city of Lunden but burned 71 years later.
In 873 CE, during the Viking expansion into England, Eivor Varinsdottir of the Raven Clan annd Lunden's reeves Stowe and Erke Bodilsson used as a meeting place during their hunt for the Order of the Ancients member Vicelin. The soldiers working with the Ancient burned the church but Eivor and the reeves escaped from the building while the fire expanded through the city. The church was later restored.Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Smashing the Compass
In 1087, the chaplain ordered the construction of a stone church, preventing further incendiary mishaps.
=== Early Modern Era ===
As King Henry VIII severed ties with the Catholic Church, St. Paul's became a Protestant cathedral. When his daughter Mary I restored the Catholic faith in England, St. Paul went back to Catholic worship until the reign of Mary's half-sister Elizabeth I in 1559, restoring Protestant both in England and St. Paul.
The renovation of the church was delayed by events like the English Civil War. In 1666, the Great Fire of London burnt St. Paul among other buildings. The architect Christopher Wren, who was hired to redesign the cathedral before the fire, engineered the design and construction of a new, revitalized cathedral.Assassin's Creed: Syndicate – Database: St. Paul's Cathedral
By the dawn of the 18th century, St. Paul was finished, attracting many visitors. The fleet of the Welsh pirate Edward Kenway sold wine to the tavern of London.Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag – Edward Kenway's fleet – A New Cathedral Later in the 1720s, Kenway became a member of the British Assassins and found an Isu cache containing a Shroud of Eden. He hid its key in a secret chamber inside the Cathedral's dome.
=== Victorian Era ===
By the nineteenth century, St. Paul's had once again lost its lustre. Queen Victoria remarked that the cathedral was "dreary, dingy, and undevotional." Funds were raised to improve the cathedral by such philanthropists as Maria Hackett and William Weldon Champneys while the British Templars' Grand Master Crawford Starrick refused. In 1868, the British Assassin Evie Frye, while searching for the Shroud of Eden, uncovered the secret room while using Kenway's journal. When she took the key, the Templar Lucy Thorne confronted her, as she was also hunting the artifact. After a duel, Lucy crashed through a window but escaped with the key.Assassin's Creed: Syndicate – A Room with a View
==Gallery==
ACS St-Paul's Cathedral - Concept Art.jpg|Concept art of St Paul's Cathedral
ACS City of London - Concept Art.jpg|Concept art of the City of London, with St Paul's Cathedral in the background
ACS London Overview - Concept Art.jpg|Concept art of St Paul's Cathedral seen from afar
ACS St. Paul's Cathedral by Acosta.jpg|Concept art of the cathedral as seen by the roadside
ACS DB St. Paul's Cathedral.jpg|Database image
ACS DB Illustrations 30.jpg|An illustration of St. Paul's Cathedral
ACV Saint Paul Cathedral.jpg|9th Century St. Paul's Cathedral
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag 
*Assassin's Creed: Syndicate 
*Assassin's Creed: Valhalla
==References==
Category:Landmarks in London
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