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Sir Christopher Wren FRS (/ r ɛ n /; [2] 30 October 1632 [O.S. 20 October] – 8 March 1723 [O.S. 25 February]) [3] [4] was an English architect, astronomer, mathematician and physicist who was one of the most highly acclaimed architects in the history of England. [4]
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.
The Old Court House is a Grade II* listed [1] house located off Hampton Court Green in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames; its origins date back to 1536.The architect Sir Christopher Wren, who lived there from 1708 to 1723, was given a 50-year lease on the property by Queen Anne in lieu of overdue payments for his work on St Paul's Cathedral. [2]
Sir Christopher Wren presided over the genesis of the English Baroque manner, which differed from the continental models by clarity of design, a less restless taste in carving and embellishment and a greater concern for historic precedent in classicism. Following the Great Fire of London, Wren rebuilt fifty-three churches, where Baroque ...
In 1727, Sarah's political rival Sir Robert Walpole purchased the lot between Marlborough House and Pall Mall through his protégé Thomas Ripley, reputedly to deny the Duchess a direct entrance onto Pall Mall. Wren had designed and built a gateway arch and screen in the front courtyard with this entrance in mind, which survives as a grotto. [7]
The college named the building in honor of the English architect Sir Christopher Wren, [citation needed] after Hugh Jones—a Reverend and William and Mary mathematics professor [citation needed] —wrote in his Present State of Virginia (1724) that it was “first modelled by Sir Christopher Wren, adapted to the nature of the country by the ...
St Bride's Church is a Church of England church in Fleet Street in the City of London.Likely dedicated to Saint Bridget perhaps as early as the 6th century, the building's most recent incarnation was designed by Sir Christopher Wren in 1672, though Wren's original building was largely gutted by fire during the London Blitz in 1940 and then was faithfully reconstructed in the 1950s.
Category: Christopher Wren buildings. 8 languages. ... Buildings and structures designed in whole or in part by English architect, Sir Christopher Wren, sorted by city.