
St. Paul's Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in London, England. It was founded in 604 AD and dedicated to Saint Paul the Apostle, sitting on Ludgate Hill at the highest point of the City of London. It was destroyed by fire in 874 AD amid a Frankish fleet's assault on London, but it was rebuilt; it was again burned down and rebuilt in 962, in 1087, and in 1135; in 1240, St. Paul's Church was re-consecrated as a cathedral. Old St. Paul's was gutted in 1666, but it was rebuilt and consecrated in 1697. It survived The Blitz of World War II despite being bombed on 10 October 1940 and 17 April 1941. It was also the site of the funerals of Horatio Nelson, the Duke of Wellington, Winston Churchill, and Margaret Thatcher, jubilee celebrations for Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II, the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales on 29 July 1981, and the October 2011 Occupy London protests.