Produced by David E. Brown and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) [Illustration: ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL. FROM LUDGATE HILL.] TALES OF ENGLISH MINSTERS ST. PAUL’S BY ELIZABETH GRIERSON AUTHOR OF “THE CHILDREN’S BOOK OF EDINBURGH,” “CHILDREN’S TALES FROM SCOTTISH BALLADS,” ETC. WITH TWO FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR AND FOUR IN BLACK AND WHITE LONDON ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK 1910 TALES OF ENGLISH MINSTERS SERIES EACH CONTAINING TWO FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR AND FOUR IN BLACK AND WHITE DURHAM LINCOLN ST. ALBANS YORK ELY ST. PAUL’S CANTERBURY PUBLISHED BY A. AND C. BLACK. SOHO SQUARE. LONDON AGENTS AMERICA THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 64 & 66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK AUSTRALASIA OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 205 FLINDERS LANE, MELBOURNE CANADA THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA, LTD. ST. MARTIN’S HOUSE, 70 BOND STREET, TORONTO INDIA MACMILLAN & COMPANY, LTD. MACMILLAN BUILDING, BOMBAY 309 BOW BAZAAR STREET, CALCUTTA LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL FROM LUDGATE HILL _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE SIGNING MAGNA CHARTA 8 IN BLACK AND WHITE PREACHING AT PAUL’S CROSS 17 SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN 24 NELSON’S MONUMENT 40 THE NAVE 48 ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL ‘The Church of the Citizens.’ I I am sure that there is no one who goes to London for the first time, no matter how hurried he may be, who does not try to visit at least three places--the Tower, Westminster Abbey, and St. Paul’s Cathedral. Of these three places, two are churches; but they are churches that are so connected with the history of our nation that they almost seem to stand at the heart of the Empire. Their stories are linked together in a curious way, and yet they are quite distinct. As someone has said, ‘Westminster Abbey was ever the Church of the King and Government; St. Paul’s was the Church of the Citizens.’ When we come to study the history of Cathedrals, we find the way in which they came to be built is pretty much the same in most cases. A little church was raised to the glory of God, and a monastery was founded beside it, which became the home of a community of monks or nuns, ruled over by an Abbot or Abbess; and the church was known as the Abbey Church. Then by-and-by, sometimes not till quite late, as at St. Albans, a ‘Bishop’s Stool’ was placed there, and the Abbey became a Cathedral.