These stairs were used in the film 'The Madness of King George' too. It was in the scene where George iii thought all London was flooded, and he forced all his children and wife to climb to high ground. It was supposed to be the stairs inside the round keep at Windsor Castle.
That's bcos the Luftwaffe avoided dropping bombs on St Paul's bcos it was such a good landmark for navigation. It wasn't luck or any kind of divine protection
@@RichO1701e 🤣🤣That's a good one! In the blackout and from several thousand feet, I doubt they could see anything clearly on the ground except the Thames and fires from the bombs other planes had dropped and even if they could see St Pauls, and were using it as a landmark, their aim wasn't so good that they could successfully aim to miss St Pauls! Furthermore , St Pauls suffered two direct hits, from bombs. The first bomb exploded at the East End on the 10th October 1940, and another over the North Transept on the 16th April 1941.The blast from the East End bomb in 1940 lifted the Quire roof from end to end, causing masonry to fall, which destroyed the altar table below. According to Godfrey Allen, Surveyor to the Fabric, the timber structure of the roof resembled a battleship after an engagement, while the lead covering ‘billowed like waves of the sea’. The second bomb to hit St Pauls hit the North Transept in 1941 was even more significant than the first. After crashing through the roof, it detonated in mid-air, rocking the Dome, pushing the south wall of the South Transept outwards and smashing every window. The masonry falling through the vault created a hole in the Cathedral floor through which the Crypt could be seen below. Just as big a threat was incendiaries and because St Pauls was such an important building and important for morale, it was always specially protected by teams of fire wardens ready to put out incendiaries that fell on or in the grounds of St Pauls and they were called upon during the blitz to save the building.
@@dacorum8053 And the fire wardens used buckets of water passed along by a human chain to put out the burning incendiaries before the roof structure itself caught fire.
If you join the guided tour given by the amazing staff in the cathedral, as part of the free tour they'll take you down the staircase and you can marvel at it up close.
Go to FRANCE instead it's better stay away from LONDONISTAN it's a dangerous some poor kid got killed there last week with a sword by some islamic extremist the peaceful people..
@@gilliankeene1071 thank you very much! I can't wait to get there and see all the historical buildings, castles etc. Plus the weather looks great just now!
I'd give London a miss if i was you it's very dangerous place plus it's just a tourist trap so come down to visit us in the beautiful countryside of the *COTSWOLDS* or the gorgeous LAKE DISTRICT in the NORTH where you can visit *ADRIAN'S WALL* and ROMAN *STRUCTURES*
Tom Cruise runs up those stairs in Mission: Impossible - Fallout, but when he gets to the top, it's the Whispering Gallery instead. He then runs out onto the roof and makes a jump of over a hundred feet.
That is a staiaghtforward cantilever staircase where the weight of each step is entirly supported by the weight of the wall pushing down on a fairly substantial part of the step set in the wall. If it were the case that each one was supported "almost entirely" by the one below, the lower steps would have to have an enormous compressive strength, as they would be supporting all the steps above.
that little library at the top of those stairs is beautiful! imagine that being the entrance to your home you go up the spiral stairs and you have converted that library into a living space aswell, so enchanting
Erm… London. Just London, and only possible because of the 'event', else, it was a ramshackle dense renk Tudor nightmare. The Great Fire… lives lost aside, arguably, a blessing in disguise.
@@garolstipockYou seriously don't know what your talking about if you really think there's only LONDON that's ok but tourists need to stop going to that SH💩THOLE.And actually go somewhere else like the COTSWOLDS,LAKE DISTRICT,YORK,CANTERBURY, WINCHESTER ,CAMBRIDGE,WELLS, OXFORDSHIRE GLOSTERSHERE,CHESTER,SUSSEX, YORKSHIRE Etc etc..
@@garolstipockI’m sure just like most countries, the living conditions would have improved over time, although the great fire did destroy a lot of the slums it left people without homes or livelihoods.
Gorgeous!!!! This os hilarious because I just read an interview with the Pet Shop Boys one of whom is also an architect. He has a phobia about spiral staircases. Now I know why!!!!😂😂😂
Wetherspoons preservation of buildings of historic interest is brilliant ❤. The (British Baptist) church l attended as a child/teenager looks better now than it did back then, when still a church.
@@helentee9863 A fair comment. They actually research the history of the local area and then the pubs after something of interest with history. Hence why a lot of them are called strange names. Can’t go wrong with the Wetherspoons. Apart from the fact the toilets are on the far side of the moon.
We visited Paul's in 2019. Breathtaking inside and out. .. And its a alot larger in reality. .. We missed this😟 .. Still definitely worth a visit. For the stunning artistry alone..
Thank you for posting this ! Your photography and narration are superb....showing this amazing stair to perfection. Do you think that the Tulip Stairs at Greenwich were inspired ( spiraled? ) by these ? 👍
@felicegreece I have just checked and entry is free - but you do have to have a ticket- you can book on line. There is a cruise boat that leaves from the City if you fancy a day out on the river . Enjoy 😉
Greetings from Auckland, New Zealand ! My parents emigrated from London in 1949. They were always sad when remembering how broken and dirty post-war London was. When was the Cathedral repaired? I spent a day there in 1975, and there was no war damage visible then. Well, we were tourists in groups, maybe they kept us away from it? But what a Legacy, what a superb national treasure ! ❤
Wren put a lot of attention in the detail and complexities where he knew people would appreciate them. To me, this whole part of Saint Paul's is an architectural and mathematical dream, I didn't know you could book tours, I'll have to get on that.
These stairs were used in the film 'The Madness of King George' too. It was in the scene where George iii thought all London was flooded, and he forced all his children and wife to climb to high ground.
It was supposed to be the stairs inside the round keep at Windsor Castle.
And so does TOM CRUISE in MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
I watched that film recently but only recognised the stairway from Harry Potter!
And Queen Charlotte was white
Wow, you really were triggered by that. What a snowflake
@@Ronkyort0doxas she should be portrayed in media
I have been up those stairs. I was 19 then, I am 72 now and would need several oxygen stops. It is beautiful, just like the rest of St Pauls.
It's wonderful to realise that this architectural marvel, part of St Pauls, survived the blitz intact.
Have you seen the picture of St. Paul's taken during a blitz attack? It's quite a sight and helped raise the morale of the public.
That's bcos the Luftwaffe avoided dropping bombs on St Paul's bcos it was such a good landmark for navigation.
It wasn't luck or any kind of divine protection
@@RichO1701e 🤣🤣That's a good one! In the blackout and from several thousand feet, I doubt they could see anything clearly on the ground except the Thames and fires from the bombs other planes had dropped and even if they could see St Pauls, and were using it as a landmark, their aim wasn't so good that they could successfully aim to miss St Pauls!
Furthermore , St Pauls suffered two direct hits, from bombs. The first bomb exploded at the East End on the 10th October 1940, and another over the North Transept on the 16th April 1941.The blast from the East End bomb in 1940 lifted the Quire roof from end to end, causing masonry to fall, which destroyed the altar table below. According to Godfrey Allen, Surveyor to the Fabric, the timber structure of the roof resembled a battleship after an engagement, while the lead covering ‘billowed like waves of the sea’.
The second bomb to hit St Pauls hit the North Transept in 1941 was even more significant than the first. After crashing through the roof, it detonated in mid-air, rocking the Dome, pushing the south wall of the South Transept outwards and smashing every window. The masonry falling through the vault created a hole in the Cathedral floor through which the Crypt could be seen below.
Just as big a threat was incendiaries and because St Pauls was such an important building and important for morale, it was always specially protected by teams of fire wardens ready to put out incendiaries that fell on or in the grounds of St Pauls and they were called upon during the blitz to save the building.
@@RichO1701ea bomb did land on it but it needed a longer distance to fall to explode.
@@dacorum8053 And the fire wardens used buckets of water passed along by a human chain to put out the burning incendiaries before the roof structure itself caught fire.
The triforium tour at Saint Paul’s Cathedral is €18 per adult if anybody is wondering.
If you join the guided tour given by the amazing staff in the cathedral, as part of the free tour they'll take you down the staircase and you can marvel at it up close.
Christopher Wren was amazing. His impact on London is an amazing success for architecture.
London is full of wonders, everywhere you look. Best city in the world. There is no other place like it. 😊
London is just the greatest city on earth. It knocks my socks off however many times I go there.
I'm going to the UK this month, and I'll use your videos to find all these hidden treasures.
Thanks so much for your help finding them.
Hope you enjoy your visit! There’s a lot to see here. 😃
Go to FRANCE instead it's better stay away from LONDONISTAN it's a dangerous some poor kid got killed there last week with a sword by some islamic extremist the peaceful people..
Hope you have a wonderful time.😊
@@gilliankeene1071 thank you very much!
I can't wait to get there and see all the historical buildings, castles etc. Plus the weather looks great just now!
I'd give London a miss if i was you it's very dangerous place plus it's just a tourist trap so come down to visit us in the beautiful countryside of the *COTSWOLDS* or the gorgeous LAKE DISTRICT in the NORTH where you can visit *ADRIAN'S WALL* and ROMAN *STRUCTURES*
Thank you for posting! This is AMAZING!
That library is amazing. I've never seen any Harry Potters, but I'd love to walk those stairs!
Woah!!! I love this!!, the stairway, the library, the history!!!
Absolutely phenomenal design. Thank you for showing this to us!
Our host NEVER ceases to totally amaze me with the gems he relates to us of our wonderful city 💥💥💥💥
I am very proud to live and work in London 😁 from Veneto, Dolomite. If you like mountains, you know Dolomite 👋
We ❤ London
Magnificent and beautiful architecture!!!💙💙💙
Tom Cruise runs up those stairs in Mission: Impossible - Fallout, but when he gets to the top, it's the Whispering Gallery instead. He then runs out onto the roof and makes a jump of over a hundred feet.
Mesmerizing archetchture ❤❤❤
That is a staiaghtforward cantilever staircase where the weight of each step is entirly supported by the weight of the wall pushing down on a fairly substantial part of the step set in the wall.
If it were the case that each one was supported "almost entirely" by the one below, the lower steps would have to have an enormous compressive strength, as they would be supporting all the steps above.
I miss London so much!!
Me too , I wish id never left. 💔
that little library at the top of those stairs is beautiful! imagine that being the entrance to your home you go up the spiral stairs and you have converted that library into a living space aswell, so enchanting
Beautiful Britain
Erm… London. Just London, and only possible because of the 'event', else, it was a ramshackle dense renk Tudor nightmare.
The Great Fire… lives lost aside, arguably, a blessing in disguise.
@@garolstipockYou seriously don't know what your talking about if you really think there's only LONDON that's ok but tourists need to stop going to that SH💩THOLE.And actually go somewhere else like the COTSWOLDS,LAKE DISTRICT,YORK,CANTERBURY, WINCHESTER ,CAMBRIDGE,WELLS, OXFORDSHIRE GLOSTERSHERE,CHESTER,SUSSEX, YORKSHIRE Etc etc..
@@garolstipockI’m sure just like most countries, the living conditions would have improved over time, although the great fire did destroy a lot of the slums it left people without homes or livelihoods.
Amazing. Thanks for that. I’m a Londoner and it’s crazy how much you miss.
Sir Christopher Wren is a master of designed space...
Here in Williamsburg, Virginia we have a building at The College of William and Mary designed by Christopher Wren.
I'm off there tomorrow ❤
Oh my God, I’ve been there 3 times, but this is the first time i know about that 🥺 really thankful 🙏🏻🙏🏻
I Love this I wish I could visit this one day Just Amazing 🇬🇧❤️❤️❤️👍
It's stairs??
Gorgeous!!!! This os hilarious because I just read an interview with the Pet Shop Boys one of whom is also an architect. He has a phobia about spiral staircases. Now I know why!!!!😂😂😂
History is fascinating ! Thanks for sharing !
Beautiful, thank you.
I knew I've seen them before!! ❤
That’s nothing. You should see the helical staircase going to the toilets in my local Wetherspoons
Wetherspoons preservation of buildings of historic interest is brilliant ❤.
The (British Baptist) church l attended as a child/teenager looks better now than it did back then, when still a church.
@@helentee9863 A fair comment. They actually research the history of the local area and then the pubs after something of interest with history. Hence why a lot of them are called strange names. Can’t go wrong with the Wetherspoons. Apart from the fact the toilets are on the far side of the moon.
I’ve been up to the top of the dome at Saint Paul’s cathedral, it was just after Charles and Diana got married.
Vertigo time!
Thank you for sharing this. Absolutely Stunning !
The stair’s banister was designed and made by Jean Tijou, a Huguenot refugee.
omg I wish I knew your channel before visiting London!!! 🤯💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘
Why?? There just steps you can find steps anywhere..
He also stated that the public cannot access these steps
@@janelliot5643he said you would have to go on one of their official tours to see them .
thanks so much I am going on the tour!!
We visited Paul's in 2019.
Breathtaking inside and out.
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And its a alot larger in reality.
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We missed this😟
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Still definitely worth a visit.
For the stunning artistry alone..
Thank you .👍🏻🇬🇧
Stunning!❤
Looks like the staircase at the end of the "now you see me 2" film, where they leave the royal observatory.
That hidden library is way cooler than any Harry Potter shit.
I love old awe onspiring craft and art.
Beautiful ❤❤❤❤
THESE STAIRS SCARE THE HELL OUT OF ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now that's what you call a building 🥰
Gives me the shivers
Finally! Someone correctly calls it a helical staircase! Well done sir
London is glorious.
Thank you for posting this ! Your photography and narration are superb....showing this amazing stair to perfection. Do you think that the Tulip Stairs at Greenwich were inspired ( spiraled? ) by these ? 👍
Where are tulip stairs, in which building in Greenwich???
@@felicegreece They are in The Queen's House. Very beautiful they are...and the rest of the building is too. 😃
@@MrJohn768 I assume you pay to enter? Thanks so much
@felicegreece I have just checked and entry is free - but you do have to have a ticket- you can book on line. There is a cruise boat that leaves from the City if you fancy a day out on the river . Enjoy 😉
@@MrJohn768 thank you so much.. which cruise boat, can you recall??
Even the phrase Triforium Tour sounds like something from a Harry Potter book.
JKR was apparently going for a theme 😉
I'd love to go in that Library!!!!!
Greetings from Auckland, New Zealand ! My parents emigrated from London in 1949.
They were always sad when remembering how broken and dirty post-war London was.
When was the Cathedral repaired?
I spent a day there in 1975, and there was no war damage visible then.
Well, we were tourists in groups, maybe they kept us away from it?
But what a Legacy, what a superb national treasure ! ❤
Imagine sliding down that!
Amazing to see inside. Amusing that you think you would ever get me to go on those stairs. The beauty of armchair travel.
🌬️💨 "that library is breathtaking!* 😘💨📚
Stairs like that are WAY too close to my nightmares to find them anything other than horrific.
Absolutely beautiful!
Absolutely gobsmackimg. Thank you.
What's gobsmacking?? They are only stairs..
Amazing! 👏😮
Thanks for sharing!
It’s in Harry Potter!! Going to the divination classroom
😍😍🙏
Imagine building that staircase ??? !!!
Gorgeous!
Who is the library for? Can anybody ever use it?
Wren put a lot of attention in the detail and complexities where he knew people would appreciate them. To me, this whole part of Saint Paul's is an architectural and mathematical dream, I didn't know you could book tours, I'll have to get on that.
that stair concept is like lois lane to superman "you've got me, whose got you?" logic!
Not open to the public unless you are paying extra.
I'm actually finding them terribly disorienting & frightening! 😱
So incredible❤
Almost every stair is supported by the one below ... just think about that for a minute .. it won't work
That's really fascinating!
If it was designed by Wren then surely it is 17th century?
No, new St Paul's wasn't completed until 1711, so 18th century. Wren didn't die until 1723.
I don’t even like Harry Potter all that much but I recognised it instantly
I can't be the only who thought he was gonna say Nicholas Flamel
Thanks 🙏🏼
The lock is notoriously easy to pick. Or so I've been told. 😉
So cool!
So Hogwarts divination classroom is in the attic of St Paul's?
So I don't need to find the train station anymore, I'll just go straight to class.
The library was used in the film Debbie Does Dallas
😮
And was in the start of the Robert Downey junior Sherlock Holmes film
Are there any interesting books in the library?
I got shown this staircase on a guided tour of the cathedral
At Christmas it's the way to the portaloos outside.
I'm happy that I recognized the Harry Potter location before you mentioned it. :)
Oh😮
and one man has brought this city into disrepute
So cool
Loved by Sheryl Crow...
It's that the one in Now You See Me 2.
Were those 500 steps a devious way to keep learning only for the most dedicated readers?
Is the library still there?
Christopher Wren? The library? 18th century....?
In reality though... you actually had to climb a ladder into the divination classroom
Oh yeah, those are used many times in Harry Potter after the third film
He who is tired of London is tired of life.
"ingenious"
Faith and mathematics created those stairs.
Might make it 10ft, then nope.