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St Paul's Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of St Paul the Apostle, is an Anglican cathedral in London, England, the seat of the Bishop of London. The cathedral serves as the mother church of the Diocese of London. It is on Ludgate Hill at the highest point of the City of London.
Crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral, Wren's memorial on the left. The Wren family estate was at The Old Court House in the area of Hampton Court. He had been given a lease on the property by Queen Anne in lieu of salary arrears for building St Paul's. [35] For convenience Wren also leased a house on St James's Street in London. According to a 19th ...
Sir Christopher Wren was one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history, as well as an anatomist, astronomer, geometer, and mathematician-physicist. [1] He was accorded responsibility for rebuilding 52 churches in the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666, including what is regarded as his masterpiece, St Paul's Cathedral, on Ludgate Hill, completed in 1710.
English Baroque is a term used to refer to modes of English architecture that paralleled Baroque architecture in continental Europe between the Great Fire of London (1666) and roughly 1720, when the flamboyant and dramatic qualities of Baroque art were abandoned in favour of the more chaste, rule-based Neo-classical forms espoused by the proponents of Palladianism.
This type of plan was also to later play a part in the development of church architecture in Western Europe, most notably in Bramante's plan for St Peter's Basilica [3] [11] [better source needed] and Christopher Wren's design for St Paul's Cathedral. Most cathedrals and great churches have a cruciform groundplan.
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Sir Christopher Wren, first Surveyor of the Fabric of St Paul's Cathedral. 1711 portrait by Godfrey Kneller. The post of Surveyor of the Fabric of St Paul's Cathedral was established in 1675. [n 1] [2] The role is an architectural one, with the current holder being responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of the cathedral and its buildings.
Keble College Chapel, Oxford St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, Australia St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth, Scotland William Butterfield's original design for the new Anglican cathedral (St Paul's) in Melbourne, Australia All Saints, Margaret Street, London (detail of interior) St Mary's church, Brookfield St Andrew's Church, Rugby St Barnabas's Church, Horton-cum-Studley St Mark's Church, Dundela ...