Another design by Jones, which recalls Palladio’s Vicenza gates is the =Water Gate=, now in the =Embankment= =Gardens=, which formerly was the water entrance from the river to old York House, which has been destroyed. He also built =S. Paul, Covent Garden= (1638), a severe but imposing design that suffers from its proximity to the market, the arcades of which are also his. His design for the river façade for =Greenwich Hospital=, in which the two lower stories are included in one colossal Corinthian order, was executed by his pupil, John Webb. Among the examples of Jones’s domestic buildings are =Raynham Hall, Norfolk=; =Wilton House, Wiltshire=; =Chevening House, Kent=; =Stoke Park, Northamptonshire=, and =Coleshill, Berkshire=. But the erection of country houses and indeed all architectural activity were seriously interrupted by the Civil War and the consequent unsettled conditions. =Wren.=--More fortunate in opportunity was Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723), upon whom it devolved to repair some of the damage wrought by the Great Fire of London, in 1666. He was never in Italy and his foreign experience was limited to six months in Paris, where Bernini’s design for the Louvre, fortunately never executed, was being commenced. Consequently he did not possess the technical equipment of Inigo Jones and was not always successful in the decorative sheathing which he applied to the construction. It was on the constructive side that his genius lay and in this he was assisted by his previous career as a mathematician and professor of astronomy at Gresham College and the University of Oxford. Wren’s earliest architectural works, executed before he went to Paris, were the =Library of Pembroke College, Cambridge= and the =Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford=. His scientific knowledge was demonstrated in the ceiling of the latter, which has a span of 68 feet. After the fire of London he planned to lay out the devastated part of the city on new and broader lines; but the reconstruction was defeated, as city replanning is liable to be in our own day, by the opposition of property owners. Meanwhile a plan he had previously made for the enlargement of S. Paul’s was now superseded by the necessity of erecting an entirely new building. =S. Paul’s.=--The plan of S. Paul’s is a cross with short arms; both the choir and nave, comprising three bays, flanked, like the transepts, with aisles. The choir terminates in a small apse; the transepts in semi-circular porticoes and the west end in a vestibule with lateral chapels. The internal piers are embellished with Corinthian pilasters, supporting an entablature and attic, the latter containing clerestory windows, which, however, though giving light to the interior, are not visible from outside. The ceilings, throughout, are composed of repetitions of flat, saucer-like domes.