St Paul's Cathedral, London
Category
Ephemera
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 746155.15
Summary
Postcard - St Paul's Cathedral, London. On the back of the postcard in green ink reads 'POST CARD' across the centre of the top. Beneath this, printed on the left is 'WRITING SPACE' and on the right 'ADDRESS ONLY', separated by a vertical line down the centre of the card. In the top right hand corner is a postage box with the text 'PRINTED IN GERMANY' within. Handwriting in grey/black ink reads 'kind regards' sideways down the centre, and 'Mr W Straw' horizontally on the right side. St. Paul's cathedral as pictured here, designed by British architect Sir Christopher Wren, is at least the fourth to have stood on the site. It was built between 1675 and 1710, after its predecessor was destroyed in the Great Fire of London, and services began in 1697. This was the first Cathedral to be built after the English Reformation in the sixteenth-century, when Henry VIII removed the Church of England from the jurisdiction of the Pope and the Crown took control of the life of the church
Provenance
Straw collection bequeathed to The National Trust on the death in 1990 of William Straw.