Talk:St Paul's Cathedral

"St. Paul's" or "St Paul's"?
I find the lack of a period after "St" in "St Paul's" to be jarring. I'm aware that Wikipedia guidelines allow this exception, but — as I read the guidelines — the exception is supposed to be for tables and such where space is at a premium. I'm also aware that the UK punctuation standards may be trending in the direction of discarding the period after certain abbreviations. But take a look at, for example, St._Paul%27s_Cathedral_(disambiguation). It's so inconsistent. Almost all of the world's listings use a period; the exceptions are the Australian, Kenyan, Maltese and UK listings. Other British Commonwealth nations, Canada and New Zealand, do use the period. My own preference would be to use the period after St in this article, and perhaps, as a policy throughout Wikipedia. Any thoughts? --JohnGHissong (talk) 17:27, 6 February 2023 (UTC)


 * Completely agree: as a Briton the degeneration of the language marks the general deterioration.  The lack of spaces between the end of sentences and punctuation marks is just as revolting, English printed books even up to the 1950s had it right.  I blame minimalism. Claverhouse (talk) 13:21, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

Old St. Paul's
'''In the 1630s a west front was added to the building by England's first classical architect, Inigo Jones. There was much defacing and mistreatment of the building by Parliamentarian forces during the Civil War, and the old documents and charters were dispersed and destroyed.[page needed] During the Commonwealth, those churchyard buildings that were razed supplied ready-dressed building material for construction projects, such as the Lord Protector's city palace, Somerset House. Crowds were drawn to the north-east corner of the churchyard, St Paul's Cross, where open-air preaching took place.'''

Seeing as this refers to the commonwealth period, it should be made explicit that the 'Lord Protector's' Palace was that of the earlier 16th century villain, the Duke of Somerset, and not the viler one, Cromwell, LP at this time.

Crummle's body just lay about in that house.

Claverhouse (talk) 13:27, 15 August 2023 (UTC)