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Sir Christopher Wren is a famous British architect. He was born in sixteen thirty-two and died in seventeen thirty-two. As an architect, Wren introduced the form of Renaissance design to English architecture. After the Great Fire of London in sixteen sixty-six, thousands of buildings were destroyed in the capital of England.

Wren began to replan the city and rebuilt fifty-one churches. Saint Paul's Cathedral is one of them, and this work of the prominent architect is certainly very special and important. Wren usually produced only a general plan of the church he was building and left the interior to be decorated by others. But Saint Paul's Cathedral was a different story. It was too grand and magnificent.

Wren worked on this Baroque style building for about forty years. His final plan for it was in the form of a Latin cross with a huge dome that rises to three hundred and sixty-five feet and is the cathedral's crowning glory. The building is decorated with two towers. There is a clock in one of them, and the largest bell in England, Great Paul. There are twelve smaller bells in the other tower.

The cathedral's west front is decorated with rows of graceful columns. Saint Paul's has become the spiritual center of the city of London. It has been the place for important occasions in the nation's history, such as the funeral of Sir Winston Churchill and the wedding of the Prince of Wales. It is also the final resting place for many of the nation's heroes.