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are themselves unique, having been made in Sussex, prior 
to the carrying of the iron industry to the North of England. 
The inside of the Cathedral is a triumph in architecture. 
The reredos is a beautiful piece of work, but otherwise there 
is a marked absence of general decoration. Wren had got 
a grand scheme simply blazing with ornamentation, which 
for some reason was not carried out. A scheme for the decora- 
tion and ornamentation of the interior is now on foot under the 
skilled guidance of Sir William Richmond. The organ is 
one of the finest to be found in Europe. The woodwork 
designs are exquisite and of great interest. In the Cathedral 
we find monuments erected to the memory of Sir Joshua 
Reynolds, Dr. Johnson, Howard the Philanthropist, Sir John 
Moore, Canon Liddon, General Gordon, Wellington, Nelson 
and other great men. It must be admitted that some of 
the sculpture is of a very poor order. In the crypt lie Wren 
and his family. 
Wonderful have been some of the scenes which have been 
enacted in this grand Cathedral. The service of Thanksgiving 
for our present King’s recovery from typhoid fever, the 
Diamond Jubilee of the late Queen Victoria, the welcome 
home of the C.I.V.’s, the Pan-Anglican Congress, are some 
of the notable events which have taken place in it. 
The lecturer concluded with a reference to the present 
much respected Bishop of St. Paul’s, Dr. Winnington- 
Ingram, who has done so much for the comfort and relief 
of the poor and the oppressed of London. May he long 
preside o\ er the Church of the metropolis, which is dearer 
to him than anything else in the whole world. 
