St. Paul's Cathedral
St. Paul's Cathedral sits on Ludgate Hill, the highest point in the City of London, and has a viewpoint. Evie finds the key to the Shroud of Eden in a secret room in its dome and fights Lucy Thorne for it.
- Type
- Landmark
- Region
- City of London
Good to know
- Feature: viewpoint.
- Architect: Christopher Wren; built 1669 to 1711.
- Edward Kenway hid the Shroud's key inside the dome in the 1720s or 1730s.
- A locked chest at the cathedral holds Sea Silk, used to craft Baron Jordane's Finery.
- Three database illustrations show the cathedral's Thanksgiving service.
In the game
Clues from Edward's journal and the Monument lead Evie to the hidden chamber. When she takes the key, Lucy Thorne confronts her.
The duelSpoilerShow
Lucy crashes through a window after the fight but gets away with the key.
History
Queen Victoria called the cathedral dreary and dingy; philanthropists raised money to fix it, while Starrick refused to give.
The key and the fight
Kenway's drawings, found in Playing It by Ear, include a sketch of the cathedral. On the roof Evie works another of Edward's mechanisms to open the hidden room, and the A Room with a View full-sync goal of countering all of Lucy's strikes applies to the fight that follows.
In 1888
In Letters of Intent, Abberline tells Evie that Arthur Weaversbrook lives near St. Paul's, and she slips out of Scotland Yard to find him here.
- Letters of IntentLetters of Intent is the fifth Jack the Ripper memory, dated 3 November 1888: Evie gets a lead from Abberline, rescues newspaper owner Arthur Weaversbrook from Rooks near St Paul's, and then frees his kidnapped son from Jack's men at the docks.
A Room with a ViewA Room with a View follows the Kenway clues to the Monument to the Great Fire and then the dome of St Paul's Cathedral, where Evie solves a disc mechanism to find the key to the Shroud's vault. Lucy Thorne is waiting, and the memory ends in a fight with her.
Related places
- Landmark
Monument to the Great Fire of London
The Monument is Christopher Wren's column in the City of London marking the Great Fire of 1666. In A Room with a View, Evie climbs it and places a disc at the top, revealing that Edward Kenway hid something at St. Paul's Cathedral.
- Landmark
Scotland Yard
Scotland Yard is the Metropolitan Police headquarters in the Strand. Several Jack the Ripper memories involving Inspector Abberline reference it.
- Landmark
Bank of England
The Bank of England is the City of London's central bank and the target of Sequence 6, A Run on the Bank, where Jacob tracks a Templar robbing its branches. You return to its vault twice more: once for the stolen printing plates and once in The Last Maharaja.
- Base
Black Swan Yard
Black Swan Yard is one of Bloody Nora's three Blighter strongholds in the City of London, set beside the river. Capturing it for the Rooks is part of taking the borough.