Nui nā mea eʻimi ai i ka halepule o St. Paul, ka halepule kaulana Baroque i hakuʻia e Sir Christopher Wren i ka makahiki 1673. Ma waena o nā mea hoʻokiʻekiʻe weliweli a me nā puʻupuʻu weliweli me nā kiʻiʻekolu, ua lilo ka crypt i hale no nā hale kupapaʻu o kekahi o nā mea nui loa o ka lāhui. Admiral Haku Nelson a me ke Duke o Pōpēnia.
Nā Kūpū o ka St. Cathedral's Crypt
ʻO ka crypt o St. Paul's Cathedral ka mea nui loa maʻEulopa.
Mahalo pahaʻoe kahi e hoʻomanaʻo aiʻo Sir Christopher Wren. Hoʻomoeʻia ka mea kākau nui ma kaʻaoʻao hema i ka hikina o ka crypt. ʻO ka hale kupapaʻu maʻalahi ua puniʻo ia i nā hōʻailona i konaʻohana a me kahi epitaph read "Reader, ināʻoe eʻimi i kona pōhaku, e nānā iāʻoe." Ua kanuʻiaʻo Wren i kahi e mahalo ai i nā lua me nā hoʻomanaʻoʻana o ka mea pena,ʻo Sir Joshua Reynolds, ke kiʻi kiʻi,ʻo Henry Moore, a me ka meaʻepekemaʻo Alexander Fleming, ka mea iʻike i ka penicillin.
Aia kekahi mau hoʻomanaʻo ma ka papa halepule a ma lalo o ka crypt. ʻO ka hoʻomanaʻo nui loa ma luna o ka papa'ahakuhi no ka Dukeʻo Pōneke (ua lōʻihi ka hanaʻana ma mua o ka halepule nui), akā eʻike nō hoʻiʻoe iā Haku Nelson i mua o Charles Marquis Cornwallis.
ʻOiai ua kanuʻia nā poets ma Westminster Abbey , nā Luna Hoʻokele o St. Cathedralʻo Corner ka mea aloha i nā mea pena e like me Turner, Millais, a me Haku Leighton.
ʻO nā inoa nui'ē aʻe āu eʻike ai ma loko o ka crypt,ʻo Arthur Sullivanʻo Gilbert a me Sullivan (kokoke i ka OBE Chapel), Sir Henry Wellcome , Florence Nightingale, William Blake, Lawrence o Arabia a me George Washington , a me nā halekupapaʻu nui a me nā keʻena no Pōneke. ʻo Nelson.
Ua kū kahi kūpono loaʻo Nelson's Tomb, no ka mea,ʻo ia ka mea mua o ke aupuni nui e kanuʻia ma St. Paul, no laila aiaʻo ia ma lalo o ka puʻupuʻu. ʻO kāna pahu kupapaʻu i hana muaʻia no Cardinal Wolseley akā ua waihoʻia i loko o ka waihona no nā makahiki he haneli i ka wā i hāʻule aiʻo Wolseley i ka lokomaikaʻi iā Henry VIII ināʻaʻole hiki iā ia ke hoʻonohonoho i kahi hoʻoponopono papal i hoʻopau i kāna mareʻana iā Catherine o Aragon.
Hiki keʻikeʻia ka pāpale a me nā puka o Churchill i ke kūkulu hale a me ka crypt no ka mea hikiʻole ke hele i ka cafe, ka hale kūʻai, aiʻole ka lumi halepaku lehulehu.
No ka poʻe i kohoʻole e piʻi i ke keʻena ,ʻO Oculus he mea hōʻikeʻike 270-degree ma kahi e hiki ai iāʻoe ke hoʻolālā e like me kou hele wāwaeʻana i ka halepule.