St Pauls Key dates and timeline

Question 1

1087

Answer 1

Fire consumes most of the city of London

Question 2

1087-1314

Answer 2

St Paul’s Cathedral built

Question 3

1109

Answer 3

wall built around the churchyard

Question 4

1135

Answer 4

Fire delays building

Question 5

1240

Answer 5

Church is consecrated (made sacred) – Great ceremony by Bishop Roger Niger

Question 6

1256

Answer 6

enlarged following a succession of storms – ‘New Work’ added t

Question 7

1300

Answer 7

further work added

Question 8

1382

Answer 8

Paul’s Cross damaged by lightning and was rebuilt

Question 9

1501

Answer 9

used as the site of Henry VII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon

Question 10

1536

Answer 10

Dissolution of the Monasteries and Chanties Act (destruction of interior ornamentation)

Question 11

1552

Answer 11

introduction of Book of Common Prayer during reign of Edward VI (re-introduced in 1559 under Elizabeth)

Question 12

1555-158I

Answer 12

heretics placed on trial at St Paul’s during reign of Mary I

Question 13

1558

Answer 13

Reign of Elizabeth I begins (Protestantism re-established)

Question 14

1561

Answer 14

spire destroyed by fire (never repaired)

Question 15

c.1600

Answer 15

Cathedral in severe structural decline

Question 16

1630s

Answer 16

some restoration work takes place under Inigo Jones

Question 17

1642 – 1651

Answer 17

Building falls into disrepair during the English Civil War

Question 18

1666

Answer 18

Great Fire of London completely destroys cathedral and Christopher Wren is commissioned to redesign

Question 19

1697

Answer 19

new Cathedral opens

Question 20

1806

Answer 20

Site of the Funeral of Admiral Nelson

Question 21

1852

Answer 21

Site of the Funeral of the Duke of Wellington

Question 22

1897

Answer 22

used for the Jubilee of Queen Victoria

Question 23

1940

Answer 23

Herbert Mason’s photo shows St Paul’s surviving the Blitz

Question 24

1958

Answer 24

Paul Robeson performs at St Paul’s

Question 25

1958

Answer 25

American Memorial Chapel opened, dedicated to American servicemen who lost their lives during WWII

Question 26

1964

Answer 26

Martin Luther King Jr delivers his ‘Three Dimensions of a Complete Life’ Sermon

Question 27

1965

Answer 27

Winston Churchill receives the largest state funeral in history at St Paul’s

Question 28

1981

Answer 28

Charles & Diana’s wedding (the first royal wedding at St Pauls since Henry VII and Catherine of Aragon

Question 29

2004

Answer 29

Paternoster Square column opened as a monument to area destroyed during Great Fire

Question 30

2011-12

Answer 30

site of the Occupy London protests.

Question 31

2012

Answer 31

service for the London Olympic games

Question 32

2020

Answer 32

Remember Me online book of remembrance produced for those who have died as a result of Covid-19