Sir Christopher Wren: His Family and His Times: With Original Letters and a Discourse on Architecture Hitherto Unpublished. 1585-1723.Phillimore, Lucy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Sir Christopher Wren: His Family and His Times: With Original Letters and a Discourse on Architecture Hitherto Unpublished. 1585-1723.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
Si licet, et cessent rerum (Pater alme) tuarum
Pondera, devotae respice prolis opus.
Hic ego sidereos tentavi pingere motus,
Coelicaque in modulos conciliare breves.
Quo (prolapsa diù) renoventur tempora gyro,
Seculaque, et menses, et imparilesque dies.
Quomodo Sol abeat, redeatque, et temperet annum,
Et (raptum contra) grande perennet iter;
Cur nascens gracili, pleno orbe refulget adulta,
Cur gerat extinctas menstrua luna faces.
His ego numinibus dum cito, atque ardua mundi,
Scrutor, et arcanas conor inire vias,
Adsis, O! faveasque, pater, succurre volanti
Suspensum implumis dirige prolis iter,
Ne male, praecipiti, nimium prae viribus audax
(Sorte sub Icarea) lapsus ab axe ruam:
Te duce, fert animus, studiis sublimibus hisce
Pasci, dum superas detur adire domos.
APPENDIX II.
_CHURCHES, HALLS, COLLEGES, PALACES, OTHER PUBLIC BUILDINGS, AND
PRIVATE HOUSES, BUILT AND REPAIRED BY SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN._
_Churches._
S. Alban, Wood Street. | S. Lawrence, Jewry.
* All Hallows, Bread Street. | S. Magnus, London Bridge.
" Lombard Street. | S. Margaret Lothbury, Pattens,
" Upper Thames St. | Rood Lane.
All Saints, Isleworth. | S. Martin, Ludgate Hill.
S. Andrew, Holborn. | S. Mary, Abchurch.
" by the Wardrobe. | " Aldermanbury.
SS. Anne & Agnes. | " Aldermary.
S. Anne, Soho (?). | " at Hill.
* S. Antholin, Watling St. | " le Bow.
S. Augustine. | * " Somerset.
* S. Bartholomew, Bartholomew | " Woolnoth.
Lane. | S. Mary Magdalen, Old Fish St.
* S. Benedict, Gracechurch Street.| S. Matthew, Friday Street.
* " Fink, Threadneedle | S. Michael, Bassishaw.
Street. | " Cheapside.
S. Benedict, Paul's Wharf. | " Cornhill.
S. Bride, Fleet Street. | * " Crooked Lane.
Chichester Cathedral. | * " Queenhithe.
Christ Church, Newgate. | " Royal, College Hill.
* S. Christopher, Threadneedle | S. Mildred, Bread Street.
Street. | * " Poultry.
S. Clement Danes, Strand. | S. Nicholas, Cole Abbey.
" Eastcheap. | S. Olave, Jewry.
Dartmouth Chapel, Blackheath. | S. Paul's Cathedral.
* S. Dionysius, Back Church. | S. Peter's Abbey, Westminster.
S. Dunstan in the East. | " Cornhill.
S.
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