[130] _Hist. of the Honourable Artillery Company._ Captain Raikes, vol. i. p. 194. CHAPTER VIII. 1672-1677. BIRTH OF HIS ELDEST SON--S. STEPHEN'S, WALBROOK--S. BENNET FINK--PLANS FOR S. PAUL'S--THE EXCAVATIONS--SON CHRISTOPHER BORN--DEATH OF FAITH, LADY WREN--SECOND MARRIAGE--CITY CHURCHES--THE MONUMENT--TOMB OF CHARLES I.--REMAINS OF THE LITTLE PRINCES IN THE TOWER. _K. Rich._ But didst thou see them dead? _Tyr._ I did, my lord. _K. Rich._ And buried, gentle Tyrrel? _Tyr._ The chaplain of the Tower hath buried them, But where, to say the truth, I do not know. _Richard III._, Act 4, scene 3. Early in October, 1672, Christopher Wren's eldest son was born, and baptized by the name of Gilbert, at S. Martin's-in-the-Fields, a very different-looking building from the present S. Martin's with its stately portico. Wren and his wife lived in the house in Scotland Yard, and, avoiding the uneven, difficult streets, could daily go by water, then the favourite way of transit for a Londoner, to examine and superintend his works in the city. Later on Wren built himself a little house of red bricks in the yard of the Falcon Inn at Southwark, and watched from its window the progress of S. Paul's and of his other buildings in the city. Besides the churches already begun, three new ones were taken in hand that year. S. Mary-at-Hill[131] was only partially destroyed by the fire. Upon it Wren first tried his plan of a domed roof, and succeeded in making it, at any rate within, a beautiful little church. S. Michael's, Cornhill, of which only the tower was left standing, was rebuilt that year; its situation threw a great difficulty in the architect's way, as it could only be lit from one side; this difficulty Wren overcame and produced an interior[132] equally light and good. The tower was taken down in 1722, and rebuilt from designs of Wren's. These designs were taken from the tower of Magdalen College at Oxford, and instance Wren's power of producing a bold, rich effect in a style of architecture altogether foreign to his taste. Perhaps the most beautiful of all Wren's churches is S. Stephen's, Walbrook, begun at this same time, and finished seven years later. The outside, cramped by its situation, and overshadowed by tall houses, is not handsome, but within, the church is as original as it is graceful and beautiful:-- 'The circular dome, placed on an octagonal base supported by eight pillars, was an early, and long a favourite, mode of roofing in the East.... Wren, however, is the only European architect who availed himself of it ... he certainly has produced the most pleasing interior of any Renaissance church which has yet been erected.'[133]