This is the Bishop of London’s chair, since 2017 occupied by the Right Reverend Sarah Mullaly, the first woman to do so.
What is less known is that on May 7th 1913 under this very chair a bomb was placed by suffragettes campaigning for Women’s suffrage – another bomb was set shortly after outside the Bank of England.
Both failed to explode and were put out in buckets and are now on display in the City of London Police museum.
What a difference a century makes, more details of this bomb are here.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/suffragettes-on-file/bomb-at-st-pauls/
