The Choir has some wonderfully-carved stalls by the famous Grinling Gibbons, and these bear the names of the prebendaries attached to the Cathedral, with the parts of the Psalter which each one had to say each day, an arrangement similar to that at Lincoln.
The Reredos is a noble example of modern work, and is worthy of close examination. Behind it is the Jesus Chapel, containing a monument of Canon Liddon. The mosaic decorations of the choir are the work of Sir William Richmond, and are worthy of the highest praise.
Monuments
One feature of St. Paul's especially endears it to us, and that is that there lie all that is mortal of many of our national heroes. Westminster is richer in its many monuments of great poets and writers; but the makers of the Empire and most of our distinguished painters are entombed in the "citizens' church." We can only point out the tombs of the most illustrious.
- Nave (North Aisle)—
- Wellington (d. 1852), the hero of Waterloo.
- Gordon (d. 1890), slain at Khartoum.
- Stewart, General (d. 1880), who tried to rescue Gordon.
- Melbourne, Viscount (1848), Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister.
- North Transept—
- Sir Joshua Reynolds (1792), by Flaxman.
- Rodney, Admiral (1790), the hero of Martinique.
- Picton (1815), slain at Waterloo.
- Napier, General (1860), author of Peninsular War.
- Ponsonby, General (1815), killed at Waterloo.
- Hallam, the historian (1859).
- Johnson, Samuel (1784).
- South Transept—
- Nelson, Admiral.
- Sir John Moore (1806), killed at Corunna.
- Turner, Joseph, R.A. (1851), painter.
- Collingwood, Admiral (1810), Colleague of Nelson.
- Howe, Admiral (1799), Colleague of Nelson.
- Howard, John (1790), the prison reformer, the first monument erected.
- Lawrence, General (1857), killed in Indian Mutiny.
- Cornwallis, General (1805), fought in American War and in India.
- South Choir Aisle—
- Dean Milman (1868).
- Bloomfield, Bishop (1856).
- Jackson, Bishop (1885).
- Heber, Bishop (1826), of Calcutta.
- Liddon, Canon (1890).
Johnson's Statue in St. Paul's Cathedral
The Crypt contains the Parish Church of St. Faith, Wellington's funeral car fashioned from captured cannon, and his tomb, Nelson's tomb (the coffin is made from the wood of one of his ships—the tomb is sixteenth-century work and was made for Cardinal Wolsey), the grave of Wren with its famous inscription, and many illustrious painters sleep in the Painters' Corner, amongst whom our modern artists Leighton and Millais rest with Reynolds, Lawrence, Landseer and Turner.
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