Qualla: Paternoster Square https://qualla.com/paternoster-square en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/paternoster-square-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Paternoster Square https://qualla.com/paternoster-square Paternoster Square: Introduction https://qualla.com/paternoster-square/ Photo credit CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Lord Mayor of London described the 1960s redevelopment of Paternoster Square as "ghastly, monolithic constructions without definition or character." He was not exaggerating. For three decades, one of the most symbolically charged sites in London — immediately north of St Paul's Cathedral, on ground that had been devastated by the Blitz — was occupied by some of the bleakest postwar architecture in the city. It took until 2003 to fix it.

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/paternoster-square-wp/gcpv-paternoster-square-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Paternoster Square: A Square With Many Names https://qualla.com/paternoster-square/ Photo credit Julian Shulman, CC BY-SA 2.0. The name Paternoster comes from the street that once occupied this ground — Paternoster Row, historically the centre of London's publishing and bookselling trade, lined with printers, bookshops, and stationers. The Row was renamed Newgate Market around 1872, reflecting an older u...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/paternoster-square-wp/gcpv-paternoster-square-a-square-with-many-names.mp3 0:06 2 full Paternoster Square: The Holford Disaster https://qualla.com/paternoster-square/ Photo credit Basher Eyre, CC BY-SA 2.0. In 1956, the Corporation of London published architect Sir William Holford's proposals for redeveloping the precinct north of St Paul's. The plan attempted to solve traffic problems while protecting the cathedral's presence on Ludgate Hill — one of the historic high points of the...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/paternoster-square-wp/gcpv-paternoster-square-the-holford-disaster.mp3 0:06 3 full Paternoster Square: A Third Attempt https://qualla.com/paternoster-square/ Photo credit David Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0. In 1990, architect John Simpson proposed a classically inspired scheme championed by the Prince of Wales, which would have blended more sympathetically with the cathedral. It was not built. Instead, in 1996, permission was granted for a master plan by Sir William Whitfield, which...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/paternoster-square-wp/gcpv-paternoster-square-a-third-attempt.mp3 0:06 4 full Paternoster Square: The Column and the Gate https://qualla.com/paternoster-square/ Photo credit Txllxt TxllxT, CC BY-SA 4.0. The main monument in the redeveloped square is a 75-foot Corinthian column of Portland stone, topped by a gold-leaf-covered flaming copper urn lit by fibre optics at night. Designed by Whitfield Partners, it also serves as a ventilation shaft for a service road beneath the square...

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