Thomas Dabbs speaks with John Wall about the completion of the Virtual St Paul's Cathedral Project. This project is a digital reconstruction of St Pauls Cathedral before Christopher Wren and during the time of John Donne and Shakespeare. It provides architectural and acoustic models for Christian worship in the early decades of the Church of England and also a view of the nave and and bookshops of Paul's Cross Churchyard, where Londoners came to hear the news and to shop. [LINKS] Virtual John Donne Project: https://virtualdonne.chass.ncsu.edu Virtual St Paul's Cathedral Project: https://vpcathedral.chass.ncsu.edu Virtual Paul's Cross Project: https://vpcross.chass.ncsu.edu [SEGMENTS] 00:00:00 - Intro 00:03:04 - Panoramic views of St Paul’s 00:06:38 - Virtual St Pauls, architecture 00:13:44 - John Donne and cathedral spaces 00:18:38 - Cross-disciplinary team, visual/acoustic models 00:25:50 - Materializing the ephemeral, the people, project history 00:30:09 - Seeing and hearing cathedral worship 00:34:05 - John Schofield’s contribution as architectural historian 00:39:03 - Paul’s Cross churchyard, transatlantic connections 00:47:50 - Paul’s Cross sermons, Donne, Gunpowder Plot, Old Pronunciation 00:53:00 - Auditory technology, the churchyard from bone to book 01:01:03 - Literacy and hearing 01:04:00 - Sounds of worship, the anechoic chamber, the choir and recording  01:15:55 - The nave of the cathedral, space and noise 01:27:18 - The ‘Book of Common Prayer’ - daily and Easter service 01:39:27 - Trinity Chapel and John Donne 01:45:00 - Closing remarks, ‘Is there sand enough in the glass?’