St. Paul’s Cathedral

With specially made out bricks that were lighter the cathedral building is built, and at the same time, included great compressional strength, allowing them to withstand extreme climatic disasters and temperatures. As dressed stones, Chunar stones have also been used whereas, with fine lime plaster, the interior and exterior of the building were plastered, and is called chunam, very similar to stucco. Without any side aisles, the interior of the cathedral is one single hall.  Including monuments of all bishops, beautifully carved pews, murals, paintings on the walls, and other pre-independence artifacts, its interiors are flanked with unusually high ceilings. By some of the finest artists belonging to the cream of the British empire, the sculptures in the church building were designed. Basically, with doubt about whether the ground would be able to support the weight of pillars and heavy arches, the shallow curves in the roof of the cathedral were designed. Hence, having the largest iron span at the time when it was built, the roof is like a shallow curve, spanned by 151 iron trusses. On its western wall, the cathedral also dons three stained glass windows along with frescoes represented in Florentine Renaissance classic style. By master designer Sir Edward Brune- Jones, the stained-glass windows were designed in memory of Lord Mayo. Destroyed in the 1964 cyclone, the East window also had original stained-glass windows and was restored in 1968. There are paintings depicting the life and importance of St. Paul, among the paintings on the walls of the cathedral, including his annunciation, and his flight into Egypt.  Sir Arthur Blomfield designed all the paintings of St. Paul. With over 184,700 species of trees planted to date, it is surrounded by a very well-maintained garden.