Aisle Be Seeing You

London is spangled with churches – there are more than 20 Sir Christopher Wren designs alone, including the most famous of them all St Paul’s Cathedral, where Evensong is a wonderfully ambient respite from the hurly-burly.

St Paul’s Churchyard, EC4 / T: St Paul’s / 7246 8357 / 5pm Mon-Fri / stpauls.co.uk. Some churches also put on fab free classical lunchtime concerts, including St Martin in the Fields / Trafalgar Sq, WC2 / T: Charing Cross / 7766 1100 / recitals 1pm Mon, Tue & Fri / stmartin-in-the-fields.org / and St James’s Piccadilly / 1.10pm Mon, Wed & Fri / 7734 4511 / sjp.org.uk.