Sir Christopher Wren : $b Scientist, scholar and architectWeaver, Lawrence
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Sir Christopher Wren : $b Scientist, scholar and architect
Weaver, Lawrence
Architects -- England -- Biography; Wren, Christopher, Sir, 1632-1723
All Hallows, Lombard Street, Church of, 81
Armoury and Mint at the Tower of London, 107
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 110
Association between architecture and military engineering, 13
Astronomy, Wren as a Professor of, 19, 36
Bacon, influence on Wren of, 30, 31
Barometer:
Torricelli’s work on the, 36
Wren’s work on the, 36
Belton House, 105
Benson, William, Surveyor-General, 74
Bernini:
Lay-out in front of St. Peter’s, Rome, 53, 108;
meeting with Wren, 48, 49;
referred to, 108
Bird, Robert, coppersmith, 120
Birth of Sir Christopher Wren, 1
Building materials, Wren’s views on, 93, 94
Busby, Dr., of Westminster School, 4, 10, 11
Cambridge:
Pembroke College Chapel, 109
Trinity College Library, 46, 47, 109, 110, 125
Campbell, Colin, work at Greenwich Hospital by, 103
Carlyle, Thomas, on the City churches, 97, 98;
on Chelsea Hospital, 97
Cathedrals:
Lincoln, Honywood Chapel at, 110
St. Paul’s, London. See St. Paul’s Cathedral
Salisbury, 137
Chapels:
Pembroke College, Cambridge, 46, 109
Trinity College, Oxford, 110
Wadham College, Oxford, 16, 17
Charles I., design for the tomb of, 107, 108;
pedestal for statue of, Charing Cross, 104
Chelsea Hospital, 97, 98, 99, 108, 125
Childhood of Wren, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Christ Church:
Newgate Street, 90
Oxford, College, 111
Christ’s Hospital, London, 107, 130
Chronology, an attempt at a Wren, 160
Church:
St. Andrew, Holborn, 87
St. Clement Danes, Strand, 78, 125
St. James, Piccadilly, 78, 90, 94, 95
St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, 21, 22
Temple Church, 21
Churches, City:
Christ Church, Newgate Street, 90
St. Alban, Wood Street, =80=, 81
St. Andrew-in-the-Wardrobe, 90
St. Anne and St. Agnes, 81
St. Antholin, Watling Street, 90
St. Augustine, Watling Street, =55=, 86, 119, 126
St. Benet, Paul’s Wharf, 86, 119
St. Benet Fink, 90
St. Bride, Fleet Street, =87=, 88, 90, =92=
St. Clement, Eastcheap, 81
St. Dunstan-in-the-East, 78, 81, =82=, 136
St. Lawrence Jewry, 86, 89
St. Magnus, London Bridge, 81, =85=
St. Margaret, Lothbury, 86
St. Margaret’s Pattens, Rood Lane, 84, 85, =86=
St. Martin, Ludgate, =56=, 85
St. Mary Abchurch, 90
St. Mary, Aldermanbury, 81
St. Mary Aldermary, 76, 136
St. Mary-at-Hill, 81
St. Mary-le-Bow Cheapside, 87, 88, 145, =146=
St. Mary Somerset, 78
St. Mary Woolnoth (by Hawksmoor), 79
St. Michael, Cornhill, 136
St. Michael Paternoster Royal, 81
St. Mildred, Bread Street, 86, 90, =91=, 120
St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, 80
St. Sepulchre, 78
St. Stephen, Coleman Street, 81
St. Stephen, Walbrook, 81, 88, 89, 119
St. Swithin, Cannon Street, 84, 90
St. Vedast, Foster Lane, =79=, 80
City Churches, referred to, 97, 98, 119, 120, 124, 126, 136, 145, 146,
160
Coghill, Faith, Wren’s first wife, 20, 21
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