1. Covent Gardens & St. Paul’s Church
Tony Hryckowian

2. Covent Gardens
Located on easternmost part of Westminster, and southwest corner of Camden.
One of London’s most popular tourist spots.
Past:
Vegetable and Fruit market
Present:
Shops, Theatre, Pubs, Restaurants
#1 Entertainment Center in London

3. Map

4. History Received its named during reign of King John.
A huge kitchen during the Middle Ages.
40 acres
Became the #1 source of Fruit and Vegetables ( )
The gardens were managed by leaseholders.
Proved to be problematic.
King Henry VIII stepped in.
Assigned Property.

5. History Cont. (1600-1800) Covent Gardens Redeveloped
Architect Inigo Jones.
The centerpiece was an arcaded piazza.
St. Paul’s cathedral
Became base for Market Traders.
Great Fire of 1666.
Most important market
Exotic Items brought up Thames River.

6. Present Day 1960’s proved to rough times. Needed redevelopment again.
Congestion (lorries)
Needed redevelopment again.
1973 Robert Carr, “listed building status”.
Three years later “New Covent Garden Market” was born.
Run by government agency

7. Entertainment Shopping London Transport Museum Royal Opera House
“Long Acre” noted for shoe shops.
London Transport Museum
Royal Opera House
34 Pubs
Theatres
Avenue of Stars
2005

8. Pictures

9. Covent Gardens

11. St. Paul’s Cathedral Four different versions (604 AD)
Early built out of Wood
Improved to stone.
The church standing today finished in 1240.
Additions were put on 1256.
Completed in 1314
Third Longest church in Europe.

12. St. Paul’s Cathedral

13. 16th Century Building started to fall apart.
Henry VIII and Edward VI
Churchyards sold as rental properties.
Evangelical Protestants
1549 Protestant protestors incited a Riot.
Destroyed cathedrals and decorations.
1561, church spire damaged by lightening.
A message from God being angry

14. Redesign 1630, front refaced by Inigo Jones.
English Civil War and Great Fire of 1666.
Task of reconstruction at hand:
Christopher Wren (1668)
Two designs rejected.
Third accepted by King Charles II
Went against Kings word and made own “ornamental” changes.
Completed in 1708 (Portland Stone)

15. Pictures

16. Present Day 1940 hit by bomb. Holds over 200 memorials
National Socialist Germany
Diffused by Royal Engineers
Holds over 200 memorials
British Military
Gulf War
Royal Family
Marriages and Christenings
Open to public

17. Pictures