St Stephen Walbrook (1679) is one of Wren’s finest parish churches and, as it was his first experiment with a dome, a forerunner to St Paul’s Cathedral. Sixteen pillars with Corinthian capitals support the coffered dome, and the modern travertine marble altar is by sculptor Henry Moore.
St Stephen Walbrook
London
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