N ot long before his death 300 years ago, Sir Christopher Wren had a terrible shock.
Looking at the final plans for St Paul’s Cathedral, he saw his dream vision for the cathedral had been brutally altered.
Wren wanted to punctuate the London skyline with statues dotted along the parapet of St Paul’s. Instead, the Church Commissioners overruled him and put in a stone balustrade - pointless, because no visitors would ever go up there and need to be protected from a fall. You can just
