Sir Christopher Wren : $b Scientist, scholar and architect

Name: Sir Christopher Wren : $b Scientist, scholar and architect
Author: Weaver, Lawrence

Weaver, Lawrence

Architects -- England -- Biography; Wren, Christopher, Sir, 1632-1723

St. Peter’s Cornhill (1687).
        St. Benet Paul’s Wharf (1685).
        St. Martin’s Ludgate (1687).
        All Hallows the Great (1687).
        St. Swithin’s (1687).
        All Hallows Bread Street (1687).
        Second marriage: to Jane Fitzwilliam, February 24.
        Birth of daughter Jane, November.
  1678. St. Antholin’s (1691).
        Design of Charles I.’s tomb.
  1679. Kilmainham Hospital, Dublin.
        Birth of son William.
  1680. St. Austin’s (1687).
        Death of second wife, October.
        St. Clement Danes.
  1681. St. Mildred Bread Street (1687).
        St. Benet’s Gracechurch (1687).
        St. Mary Abchurch (1687).
        St. Matthew’s Friday Street (1687).
        Tom Tower, Christ Church, Oxford.
        Sworn in as President of the Royal Society, January 12.
  1682. St. Alban’s Wood Street (1687).
        Chelsea Hospital begun.
        Latin School, Christ’s Hospital.
  1683. St. James Piccadilly.
        St. Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street (1687).
        St. Clement’s Eastcheap (1687).
        Palace at Winchester begun but not completed.
  1684. St. Margaret Pattens (1689).
        St. Michael’s Crooked Lane (1694).
        Appointed Controller of Works, Windsor Castle.
        Middle Temple Gateway.
        Repairs to Chichester Cathedral Spire.
  1685. St. Andrew’s Wardrobe (1695).
  1686. St. Margaret’s Lothbury (1693).
        St. Mary Somerset (1694).
        All Hallows Lombard Street (1694).
        St. Michael’s Royal (1694).
  1688. Town Hall, Windsor.
  1689. M.P. for Windsor.
  1690. Hampton Court begun.
  1690. Kensington Palace.
  1691. Chapel, Trinity College, Oxford.
  1693. Library, Queen’s College, Oxford.
  1694. Chapel, Trinity College, Oxford.
  1695. Greenwich Hospital begun.
        Morden College, Blackheath.
  1697. St. Paul’s: Choir opened for service, December 2.
  1698. Marlborough House, London.
        North Transept front, Westminster Abbey.
  1700. M.P. for Weymouth.
  1703. Death of daughter Jane.
  1704. Orangery, Kensington Palace.
  1710. St. Paul’s: top-stone of Lantern laid.
  1711. St. Paul’s: nominal completion.
  1717. St. Paul’s: Wren’s complaint to Commissioners against the
          Balustrade.
  1718. Dismissed from Surveyorship.
  1723. Death of Wren, February 25.




APPENDIX III

A NOTE ON SOME PORTRAITS OF WREN


The following brief particulars of several portraits of Wren, some of
which are reproduced in the preceding pages, may lead to more precise
information being disinterred:

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Sir Christopher Wren : $b Scientist, scholar and architect

Weaver, Lawrence

Architects -- England -- Biography; Wren, Christopher, Sir, 1632-1723

St. Peter’s Cornhill (1687).
        St. Benet Paul’s Wharf (1685).
        St. Martin’s Ludgate (1687).
        All Hallows the Great (1687).
        St. Swithin’s (1687).
        All Hallows Bread Street (1687).
        Second marriage: to Jane Fitzwilliam, February 24.
        Birth of daughter Jane, November.
  1678. St. Antholin’s (1691).
        Design of Charles I.’s tomb.
  1679. Kilmainham Hospital, Dublin.
        Birth of son William.
  1680. St. Austin’s (1687).
        Death of second wife, October.
        St. Clement Danes.
  1681. St. Mildred Bread Street (1687).
        St. Benet’s Gracechurch (1687).
        St. Mary Abchurch (1687).
        St. Matthew’s Friday Street (1687).
        Tom Tower, Christ Church, Oxford.
        Sworn in as President of the Royal Society, January 12.
  1682. St. Alban’s Wood Street (1687).
        Chelsea Hospital begun.
        Latin School, Christ’s Hospital.
  1683. St. James Piccadilly.
        St. Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street (1687).
        St. Clement’s Eastcheap (1687).
        Palace at Winchester begun but not completed.
  1684. St. Margaret Pattens (1689).
        St. Michael’s Crooked Lane (1694).
        Appointed Controller of Works, Windsor Castle.
        Middle Temple Gateway.
        Repairs to Chichester Cathedral Spire.
  1685. St. Andrew’s Wardrobe (1695).
  1686. St. Margaret’s Lothbury (1693).
        St. Mary Somerset (1694).
        All Hallows Lombard Street (1694).
        St. Michael’s Royal (1694).
  1688. Town Hall, Windsor.
  1689. M.P. for Windsor.
  1690. Hampton Court begun.
  1690. Kensington Palace.
  1691. Chapel, Trinity College, Oxford.
  1693. Library, Queen’s College, Oxford.
  1694. Chapel, Trinity College, Oxford.
  1695. Greenwich Hospital begun.
        Morden College, Blackheath.
  1697. St. Paul’s: Choir opened for service, December 2.
  1698. Marlborough House, London.
        North Transept front, Westminster Abbey.
  1700. M.P. for Weymouth.
  1703. Death of daughter Jane.
  1704. Orangery, Kensington Palace.
  1710. St. Paul’s: top-stone of Lantern laid.
  1711. St. Paul’s: nominal completion.
  1717. St. Paul’s: Wren’s complaint to Commissioners against the
          Balustrade.
  1718. Dismissed from Surveyorship.
  1723. Death of Wren, February 25.




APPENDIX III

A NOTE ON SOME PORTRAITS OF WREN


The following brief particulars of several portraits of Wren, some of
which are reproduced in the preceding pages, may lead to more precise
information being disinterred:

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Sir Christopher Wren : $b Scientist, scholar and architect

Sir Christopher Wren : $b Scientist, scholar and architect

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