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Gilded and ornate, St. Paul’s Cathedral has been the site of numerous grand public ceremonies, including Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee service (in 1897), Sir Winston Churchill’s funeral (in 1965) and the 100th birthday of the recently deceased Queen Mother (in 2000). The Great West Door (the main entrance, shown on p. 62) that opens into the nave stands 27 feet high and is now used only on special occasions. The cathedral also includes the North and South Aisles with three small chapels, North and South Transepts (cross aisles), the third-largest organ in Britain, two bell towers and the “Whispering Gallery,” where a whisper into one wall can be heard on the opposite side. Below ground lies the crypt where more than 200 famous Britons are interred, including architect Christopher Wren himself, above whose tomb a plaque reads Lector, si monumentum requiris, circumspice (“Reader, if you seek his monument, look around”).