5 Historic Quirks to Spot in... Paternoster Square

Oddities in the shadow of St Paul's.

All images by the author.

Paternoster Square, beside St Paul’s, is only about 20 years old. It replaced a concrete cackbucket of a 1960s development, which had few fans. That in turn sprang up on the ruins of the historic Paternoster Row. For centuries, this had been the centre of London’s book trade. But it all went up in smoke during the Blitz. Five mi…