Comments on: In The Roof Of St Paul’s Cathedral https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/02/28/in-the-roof-of-st-pauls-cathedral-ii/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sat, 01 Mar 2025 20:47:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Cherub https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/02/28/in-the-roof-of-st-pauls-cathedral-ii/#comment-1697338 Sat, 01 Mar 2025 20:47:34 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=202516#comment-1697338 I think I’d be terrified to go up there. When I visited the Leaning Tower of Pisa a few years ago I made it to the colonnade part, felt extremely nauseous and my husband had to leave me there and go to the top on his own.

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/02/28/in-the-roof-of-st-pauls-cathedral-ii/#comment-1697001 Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:53:57 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=202516#comment-1697001 Heck, just reading your description of the space inside the Dome of St Paul’s gave me vertigo – as I sit here in a comfortable armchair on a Friday afternoon. And this is someone who went into St Paul’s many times as a child growing up in London, the first memory I think was of seeing the Painting by the Pre-Raphaelite Wm Holman Hunt of ‘The Light of the World’

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/02/28/in-the-roof-of-st-pauls-cathedral-ii/#comment-1696961 Fri, 28 Feb 2025 12:56:07 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=202516#comment-1696961 A breathless “God’s eye view” of an incomparable space. Unless some very unusual planets align, I will never visit this location. And yet the Gentle Author has taken me along with him, and provided visual vitamins as well. I love the macro and the micro. The vaulted soaring spaces, and the feathery inscriptions on the ancient wall. Both. All.

Where will we go next?

]]> By: Milo https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/02/28/in-the-roof-of-st-pauls-cathedral-ii/#comment-1696902 Fri, 28 Feb 2025 09:41:52 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=202516#comment-1696902 Whoah. Your description of stepping out into the void of the whispering gallery was enough to give me a nose bleed. Very evocative. And that’s as close I’ll ever get to that experience – which suits me fine. Thank you, fearless leader.

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