In Scotland he did nothing; but the Royal Hospital at Kilmainham, near Dublin, is attributed to him with some reason. In 1679 he was ordered to view the site, but no record remains of his visit, and this Irish variant of Chelsea Hospital is not claimed by his son in the list of works. The building is simple and dignified with open cloisters round a big quadrangle. Probably Wren did designs for it and left some assistant or local architect to supervise its building. The best evidence for his authorship is that there was no architect in Ireland who could have produced such a design, with the possible exception of the designer of Beaulieu, near Drogheda. Another charitable foundation, Morden College, Blackheath, is certainly Wren’s. It is an enchanting piece of brickwork with a pedimented centre-piece and lantern. As Cambridge was the locus of his first _completed_ work of importance, Pembroke Chapel (the Sheldonian is called in the _Parentalia_ “the first publick Performance of the Surveyor,” but it was finished later than the chapel); it also gave him the opportunity for one of his greatest achievements, the Library of Trinity. His first design was for a circular building with a domed roof, but this soon gave place to the scheme that was carried out. A long memorandum by Wren explains his reasons for the design, which was limited by the need of joining the new Library to the extension of Neville’s Court, a junction which was not very happily achieved. The governing consideration of the elevation to the Court was the maintenance of the Library floor on the same level as the adjoining chambers. Unfortunately Wren would use two Orders despite the fact that the structure of the work was in conflict. Evidently he was forcing a design, naturally of a Palladian type, of a _piano nobile_ on a lower storey which would be the podium of an Order. It is a case where his ingenuity overbore his artistic sense, and he resorted to the doubtful expedient of a range of arches, the tympana of which are filled in solid. The river front has been criticised on the grounds of an undue austerity, but I find it difficult to follow this: it is surely a miracle of dignity. For the interior of the Library there can be nothing but praise. Ideal in dignity and ideal in convenience, Wren’s book presses have the additional merit of showing Gibbons carving of peculiar excellence, and he must not be charged with the overcrowding of the floor by smaller cases needed by modern accessions of books. Wren was less happy in his chapel and cloister at Emmanuel College. The breaking of the pediment of the central feature by the lantern turret is not in his usual vein, but the lantern itself is a very charming composition. Another related work is the Honywood Library and Cloister at Lincoln Cathedral, but the Library itself is a rather low and not specially distinguished apartment.