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This is the official church of the Wrens, or Women’s Royal Naval Service. There was once a great maypole outside the church which was given to Sir Isaac Newton to mount a telescope in 1717.
This 1633 Anglican church was designed by Inigo Jones and is known as the Actors’ Church through long association. Grinling Gibbons is buried here, beneath a wreath he carved himself.
The first national lottery was held in 1569, and the result was announced at the west door of (the old) St.Paul’s cathedral. It is unknown if the winner let it change him.
This suave underground bar hosts cabaret and serves snuff, and was once ‘the most infamous gents in Theatreland’ – Oscar Wilde and Sir John Gielgud allegedly came ‘cruising’ here.
Built by the Duke of Somerset (executed in 1552 before the building was complete), it was later a residence for the queens of Charles I and II, and was regarded as a dangerous hotbed of Catholicism.
Every year a Norway Spruce is erected here and decorated as part of the Christmas festivities. The tree is a gift of thanks from the Norwegians for Britain's support during the Second World War
Handel lived at no.25 between 1723 and his death in 1756, and composed his Messiah and Zadok the Priest among many other works here. The interior is now a faithful recreation from this period.
This Sir Christopher Wren church was consecrated in 1684 and features many carvings by Grinling Gibbons. The cartoonist James Gillray and the auctioneer James Christie are both buried here.
The V&A is the world’s largest museum of decorative art and design and holds 4.5 million objects. Henry Cole, the museum’s first director, printed the world’s first Christmas card in 1843.
No hotel has greater royal connections than Claridge’s, which entertained Queen Victoria in 1860, and was where the Crown Prince of Yugoslavia was born in 1945. The current building dates from 1898.
