London - sillad, tornid, ajalugu
of the queen's courts of justice". In fact the Tower was no longer used as a royal residence,
except before coronations, when Stow wrote those words. The Tudors had changed all that.
St. Paul's Cathedral
St. Paul's Cathedral has had an eventful history. The first records date from 604 AD, when
Mellitus, Bishop of the East Saxons built the first wooden church on the summit of one of
London's hills. At the end of the 7th century, it was built in stone by Erkenwald, Bishop of
London. In 962 and 1087, the Cathedral was destroyed by fires, but each time it was rebuilt. By
that time, it was one of the largest cathedrals in Europe. Rebuilding and extensions in the 13th
and 14th century enlarged the cathedral even more. But disaster struck again on the night of the
2nd of September 1666, when the great fire of London destroyed 4/5th of all of London, wiping
13,200 houses and 89 churches, including the St. Paul's Cathedral off the map. In 1669,
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