The Cabaret Voltaire held spoken word, dance and performance art shows. They were experimental and relatively strange, breaking artistic norms while trying out new forms of poetry and movement. These experiments would come to be known as Dada art.

The present St Paul's (the fifth to stand on the site) was designed by the great British architect Sir Christopher Wren. It took 35 years to build, a relatively short time frame as far as cathedral building is concerned, and, although the whole construction was overseen by one architect, the period of that construction, 1675 - 1710, spanned the reigns of five monarchs.