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No Such Thing As A Fish

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Inigo Jones and St Paul's Cathedral in Covent Garden

Inigo Jones was asked to build a square fit for gentlemen with ability by the alphabet. Christopher Wren designed St Paul's Cathedral down the road and then he designed Little St Paul's church on Covent Garden it's still there today. It's a reverse church it's a reverse it's where God comes to worship meYeah yeah yeah Church authorities aren't very happy about it actually it's like religious but it's no it's a it's a wrong way church because what do you mean basically churches have their doors at the west end and then the east end is the bit that faces towards Jerusalem that's how churches are laid out.

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