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Christopher Wren B.D. (17 September 1589 [1] – 29 May 1658) was an Anglican cleric who was Dean of Windsor from 1635 until his death, [2] and the father of the prominent architect Christopher Wren. Family
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]
Christopher Wren was appointed the architect in 1672 and the church was consecrated on 13 July 1684 by Henry Compton, the Bishop of London. In 1685 the parish of St James was created for the church. The church was severely damaged by enemy action in the London Blitz on 14 October 1940. [ 2 ]
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 blitzed church in situ in London, 1964 The church was rebuilt at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. St Mary Aldermanbury was a parish church in the City of London first mentioned in 1181 [1] and destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666. [2]
St Anne and St Agnes was rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren in 1680, [6] with possible contributions from Robert Hooke. [7] The small brick church is of an unusual design in London, being based on that of a Greek cross ; [ 8 ] it utilises a vaulted square within a square, a formula based on the Nieuwe Kerk in Haarlem in the Netherlands .
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.
Nevertheless, it was refurbished by Christopher Wren, who made extensive modifications to the interior, including the addition of an altar screen and the installation of the church's first organ. The church underwent a Victorian restoration in 1841 by Smirke and Burton, who decorated the walls and ceiling in high Victorian Gothic style in an ...