temple of diana quote from pre norman cathedral section geoffrey of monmouth claimed that the cathedral had been built on the site of a temple dedicated to the goddess diana in alignment with the apollo temple that he imagined once stood at westminster nonsense geoffrey did not make such a claim the idea that following the persecution of christians by diocletian apollo was worshipped at westminster and diana in london comes from the history of westminster abbey by john flete th century monk of westminster and he didn't say that diana was worshipped on the site of st paul's that comes from william camden's britannia published in camden puts forward the theory that a roman temple of diana had once stood on the site of st paul's his evidence is not accepted by modern archaeologists and if the in alignment with phrase actually means what it says one can only respond that a straight line can indeed be drawn between any two points since the sentence about geoffrey of monmouth is unreferenced and unverifiable as well as untrue i'm simply going to delete it pro tem unless someone can provide the essential reference to a verifiable source however since the temple of diana story still resurfaces occasionally along with the megalithic stone circle it will be worth reintroducing it at some point correctly attributed and with proper references