Sir Christopher Wren: His Family and His Times: With Original Letters and a Discourse on Architecture Hitherto Unpublished. 1585-1723.Phillimore, Lucy
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Sir Christopher Wren: His Family and His Times: With Original Letters and a Discourse on Architecture Hitherto Unpublished. 1585-1723.
Phillimore, Lucy
Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714 -- Biography; Wren family; Wren, Christopher, Sir, 1632-1723
[139] The model was long preserved in what was called the Trophy
Room of S. Paul's. 'It unfortunately has suffered much from
neglect, decay, and the uncontrolled mischief of visitors;
that which was one of its noblest features, its long stately
western portico, has entirely disappeared. The model was lent
to and still remains in the Architectural Exhibition at South
Kensington, on condition of repairing some of its reparable
parts (a condition but imperfectly fulfilled).'--_Annals of S.
Paul's Cathedral_, Dean Milman, p. 40.
[140] An engraving giving a section of this very curious design is
to be found at page 97 of Mr. Longman's exhaustive and
interesting _Three Cathedrals dedicated to S. Paul's in
London_.
[141] The fourth portion of the tax on coal granted for the public
buildings of the City was given for the rebuilding of S.
Paul's.
[142] Thomas was the son of Mr. Valentine Strong, a well-known
master-mason of Hertfordshire; his six sons were all engaged
in the same trade as himself. _Life of Sir C. Wren_, p. 316.
Elmes.
[143] Sir C. Wren gave the mallet and trowel used on this occasion
to the Freemasons' lodge of which he was master, then called
after his name, now the 'Lodge of Antiquity, No. 21.'
[144] J. Woodward, the founder of the Cambridge Geological
Professorship, was born 1665, published a series of curious
geological speculations under the name of _A Natural History
of the Earth_. In 1707 he published _An Account of Roman Urns
and Antiquities lately dug up near Bishopsgate_, addressed to
Sir C. Wren, whom, as I have said, he did not convince.
Woodward was a Fellow of the Royal Society and the College of
Physicians. He died 1728.
[145] Francis Atterbury, born 1662, made Dean of Westminster and
Bishop of Rochester 1715; was a strong Jacobite, and was
banished in 1723: died 1732.
[146] A stone altar was however found during some excavations in
Foster Lane in 1830, at no great distance from the Cathedral,
with an image of Diana about which there can be no
misapprehension, as it closely resembles the Diana of the
Louvre.--_Annals of S. Paul's_, p. 7.
[147] Jack Cade's instruction to his followers on reaching London
was 'Up Fish Street, down _S. Magnus_ corner. Kill and knock
down, throw them into the Thames.' _Henry VI._, part ii. act
iv. scene 8.
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