[40] Tickets of admission can generally be obtained, during the season, of Messrs Smith, 137 New Bond Street. Days of admission, from 10 till 5, Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays.
[47a] The total cost, including 200 tons of iron-railing, was £1,511,202.
[47b] It is strange that, in relation to the best known building in London, great discordance reigns concerning the total height. Wren’s son, in the Parentalia, simply states that the lantern is 330 feet from the ground; Maitland gives the total height at 340 feet; many authorities name 360 feet; while several Hand-books and Guides, following the pamphlet sold in the cathedral, raise it to 404 feet. This last statement agrees with the Cockney tradition, that St. Paul’s is twice as high as the Monument. A careful examination of the vertical section, however, shews that the height is about 356 feet above the marble pavement of the cathedral, 375 above the level of the crypt, and 370 above the pavement of the churchyard. It will thus be sufficiently near the truth to say that St. Paul’s is 365 feet high—a familiar number, easy to remember.
[178] Is also a theatre.
[179] Is also a theatre.