Editing Covent Garden (section)

===St Paul's Church===
{{Main|St Paul's, Covent Garden}}
St Paul's, commonly known as the Actors' Church,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.actorschurch.org/ |title=Welcome to St. Paul's Church website |publisher=The Actor's Church |access-date=26 July 2010 |archive-date=18 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120518185718/http://www.actorschurch.org/ |url-status=live}}</ref> was built in 1633, at a cost of £4,000, though was not consecrated until 1638. In 1645 Covent Garden was made a separate parish and the church was dedicated to [[St Paul]].<ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=46105 |title=Survey of London: volume 36: Covent Garden |author=F. H. W. Sheppard |year=1970 |pages=98–128 |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |access-date=26 July 2010 |archive-date=4 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604092333/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=46105 |url-status=live}}</ref> How much of Jones's original building is left is unclear, as the church was damaged by fire in 1795 during restoration work by [[Thomas Hardwick]]; the columns are thought to be original but the rest is mostly Georgian or Victorian reconstruction.<ref name=Summerson2>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cM1PAAAAMAAJ&q=Victorian+reconstruction |title=Inigo Jones |page=95 |author=John Summerson |publisher=Penguin |year=1966 |isbn=9780140208399 |access-date=25 October 2020 |archive-date=3 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103175432/https://books.google.com/books?id=cM1PAAAAMAAJ&q=Victorian+reconstruction |url-status=live}}</ref>