Where Light Falls Audio Description: Scene Setting and Instructions – St Paul’s Cathedral

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Where Light Falls audio description: scene setting and instructions  

Welcome to Where Light Falls, a spectacular light and poetry show commemorating 80 years since the start of the Second World War.

This is a set of audio description files for sight impaired visitors. Each audio description is its own sound file and is named to identify the facade of St Pauls where the projection is displayed. You will know when a new track is starting as you’ll hear the words “Where Light Falls audio description for sight impaired visitors” and then the name of the sight.

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Where Light Falls is made up of three projections on the outside of St Paul’s Cathedral, they are called site 1, site 2 and site 3.

Site 1 is on the south side of the cathedral, next to Ludgate Hill, site 2 is on the front façade of the building and site 3 is on the north side of the cathedral, on Paternoster Row.  If you need assistance to find one of the sites, please ask one of our stewards to direct you.

The projections are a combination of new animations, written poetry and archive imagery taken during the Second World War.

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Where Light Falls, a spectacular light and poetry show commemorating  80 years since the start of the Second World War.

As the Blitz raged from September 1940 to May 1941, Winston Churchill said St Paul’s Cathedral must be saved at “all costs”. The daring members of St Paul’s Watch responded to that call and re-assembled in 1939 to put themselves in the path of bombs night after night.

As most people took refuge in tube stations and air raid shelters across London, and bombs rained down over St Paul’s, the volunteers patrolled the cathedral to keep it safe.

Loss and Destruction

Part of Historic England’s Loss and Destruction season. Historic England presents Where Light Falls, spectacular light and poetry shows that honour the people who risked their lives to protect the places they loved. St Paul’s and Coventry Cathedral, two buildings with opposing fates during the Blitz, become the canvas to uncover hidden wartime histories.

Historic England commissioned two new works of poetry for Where Light Falls, facilitated by The Poetry Society and in collaboration with community groups. In London, poet Keith Jarrett worked with local school children, older writers, refugees and migrants with lived experience of conflict, inviting them to respond to contemporary photographs and accounts of the Blitz.

Credits

With thanks to St Paul’s Cathedral, the City of London Corporation and its Fantastic Feats programme of outdoor arts events.

Thanks to Double Take Projections and the Poetry Society.

We hope you enjoy Where Light Falls. Share your thoughts over social @HistoricEngland #WhereLightFalls

Audio descriptions for other sites at St Paul's Cathedral

• Scene setting and instructions (current page)
• Site 1: South
• Site 2: Front façade
• Site 3: North