OLD ST. PAUL'S




CHAPTER I.

THE BUILDING.


_Roman London_--_The Beginning of Christian London_--_The English
Conquest and London once more Heathen_--_The Conversion_--_Bishop
Mellitus_--_King Sebert_--_The First Cathedral_--_Its
Destruction_--_Foundation of the Second Cathedral by Bishop
Maurice_--_Another Destructive Fire_--_Restoration and
Architectural Changes_--_Bishop Fulk Basset's Restoration_--_The
Addition Eastward_--_St. Gregory's Church on the S.W. side_--"_The
New Work_" _and a New Spire: dedicated by Bishop Segrave_--_How the
Money was raised_--_Dimensions of the Old Church_--_The Tower
and Spire_--_The Rose Window at the East End_--_Beginning of
Desecration._


The Romans began the systematic conquest of Britain about the time
of Herod Agrippa, whose death is recorded in Acts xii. London was
probably a place of some importance in those days, though there is