Editing St Paul's Cathedral (section)

===Before the cathedral===
The location of [[Londinium]]'s original cathedral is unknown, but legend and medieval tradition claim it was [[St Peter upon Cornhill]]. St Paul is an unusual attribution for a cathedral and suggests there was another one in the Roman period. Legends of [[Lucius of Britain|St Lucius]] link St Peter upon Cornhill as the centre of the Roman Londinium Christian community. It stands upon the highest point in the area of old Londinium, and it was given pre-eminence in medieval procession on account of the legends. There is, however, no other reliable evidence, and the location of the site on the Forum makes it difficult for it to fit the legendary stories. In 1995, a large fifth-century building on [[Tower Hill]] was excavated and has been claimed as a Roman basilica, possibly a cathedral, although this is speculative.{{Sfn|Denison|1995}}{{sfn|Sankey|1998|pp=78–82}}

The [[Elizabethan]] antiquarian [[William Camden]] argued that a [[Roman temple|temple]] to the goddess [[Diana (mythology)|Diana]] had stood during Roman times on the site occupied by the medieval St Paul's Cathedral.{{sfn|Camden |1607|pp=306–307}} Wren reported that he had found no trace of any such temple during the works to build the new cathedral after the Great Fire, and Camden's hypothesis is no longer accepted by modern archaeologists.{{sfn|Clark|1996|pages=1–9}}