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
Oughtred, Mr., Wren’s letter to, 7
Oxford:
Ashmolean Museum, 110
Christ Church College, 111
Incident at, 16
Queen’s College, 110
Sheldonian Theatre, 45, 46
Trinity College Chapel at, 110
Wren’s education at, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
Palace:
Hampton Court, 99, 100, 101, 121, 156
Kensington, 105
Winchester, 107
Palladio’s influence on Wren, 52
Pallant House, Chichester, 106
Parentage and pedigree of Wren, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
_Parentalia_, the, 1, 3, 5, 8, 9, 13, 15, 22, 24, 26, 34, 41, 65, 109,
124, 125, 132, 149
Paris, Wren’s journey to, referred to, 41, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51
Parliament, Wren as a member of, 120, 121
Pascal’s problem and Wren’s solution of it, 34, 35, 36, 158, 159
Pedestal of the Charles I. statue, Charing Cross, 104
Pembroke College Chapel, Cambridge, 46, 109
Pepys, Samuel, 14, 114, 130
Physicians, College of, Warwick Lane, 107
Pigott, Mrs. Corbett, 26
Plan for rebuilding London after the Great Fire, Wren’s, 53, 54, 55,
56, 57, 58
Portraits of Sir Christopher Wren, some, 164, 165, 166
Pulpits and pews, Wren’s views on, 95
Queen’s College, Oxford, 110
Ripley, Thomas, and Greenwich Hospital, 103
Royal Society, Wren and the, 12, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42
Ruskin, John, and Renaissance Architecture, 137
Ryland’s pedigree of the Wren family, 18
St. Alban, Wood Street, 81
St. Andrew, Holborn, 78
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, =87=, 88, 90, =92=
St. Clement Danes, Strand, 78, 125
St. Clement, Eastcheap, 81
St. Dunstan-in-the-East, 78, 81, =82=, 136
St. James, Piccadilly, 78, 90, 94, 95
St. Lawrence Jewry, 86, 89
St. Magnus, London Bridge, 81, =85=
St. Margaret, Lothbury, 86
St. Margaret Pattens, Rood Lane, 84, 85, =86=
St. Martin, Ludgate, =56=, 85
St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, 21, 22
St. Mary Abchurch, 90
St. Mary, Aldermanbury, 81
St. Mary Aldermary, 78, 136
St. Mary-at-Hill, 81
St. Mary-le-Bow Cheapside, 87, 88, 145
St. Mary Somerset, 78
St. Mary Woolnoth, 79
St. Michael, Cornhill, 136
St. Michael Paternoster Royal, 81
St. Mildred, Bread Street, 86, 90, =91=, 120
St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, 80
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