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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]
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
Tribute to the memory of Sir Christopher Wren by Charles Robert Cockerell, showing an array of Wren's churches from around London imagined together. Sir Christopher Wren was 33 years old and near the beginning of his career as an architect when the Great Fire of London in 1666 destroyed many of the city's public buildings, including 88 of its parish churches.
Portrait of Sir Christopher Wren is an oil on canvas portrait painting by the German-born British artist Godfrey Kneller of the English architect Christopher Wren, from 1711. [1] Wren, a polymath , is best known for his design of St Paul's Cathedral along with multiple other buildings in the English Baroque style.
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 ]
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 ...