Sir Christopher Wren: His Family and His Times: With Original Letters and a Discourse on Architecture Hitherto Unpublished. 1585-1723.Phillimore, Lucy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Sir Christopher Wren: His Family and His Times: With Original Letters and a Discourse on Architecture Hitherto Unpublished. 1585-1723.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
-- -- Cornhill, rebuilt by Wren, 191
-- -- Crooked Lane, rebuilt by Wren, 262;
destruction of (1830), 262
-- -- Queenhithe, repaired by Wren, 207
-- Mary's, Royal College Hill, rebuilt by Strong, Wren's
master-mason, 272
-- Mildred's, Bread St., rebuilt by Wren, 240
-- -- Poultry, rebuilt by Wren, 205;
destruction of, in 1872, 205
-- Nicholas, Cole Abbey, rebuilt by Wren, 206
-- Olave's, Jewry, rebuilt by Wren, 194
-- Paul's Cathedral, old, repairs of, 41, 42;
attacked by the Puritan mob (1640), 46-47;
meeting of the Convocation of Canterbury at (1661), 119;
Wren's proposed repairs of, 139, 140, 154;
burning of, in the Great Fire (1666), 156, 158;
removing the ruins of, 165;
Sancroft's letters to Wren respecting, 166, 168;
Wren's account of the effect of the fire upon, 169, 170, 171;
sale of the ruins of, for the rebuilding of parochial churches,
186, 187;
ruins of, blown up with gunpowder, 187, 188;
New or present building, different designs for, and Wren's model
of, 196, 197;
first stone of, laid by Wren, 200;
Wren's care in laying the foundations of, 201;
Bishop Compton's address to obtain contributions for, 220;
quarries of Portland stone set apart for, 221;
the crypt of, finished, 261, 262;
part of the money for, taken by Parliament for the expenses of
King William's wars, 273;
placing of the organ in, 273, 274, 275;
opening of the choir of, 279;
Wren's order against swearing among the workmen in, 285;
morning-prayer chapel of, opened, 288;
burial of Jane Wren in, 300;
thanksgiving for the victory of Blenheim at, 301;
covering of the dome of, with lead, 303;
last stone of, laid by Wren's son, 318, 319;
the iron gates set up in, 324;
Wren's design for east end of, 324, 325;
iron fence round, 326;
design of the commissioners to put up a balustrade, in, 328;
late improvements in, 334
S. Peter's, Cornhill, rebuilt by Wren, 233;
charitable legacies belonging to, 233
-- Sepulchre's Church, 182, 183
-- Stephen's, Coleman St., rebuilt by Wren, 205
-- -- Walbrook, rebuilt by Wren, 192, 225, 226
-- Swithin's, Cannon St., rebuilt by Wren, 219
-- Vedast's, Foster Lane, steeple of, added by Wren, 273
Salisbury Cathedral, Wren's work at, 17
Sancroft, Dr., Dean of S. Paul's and Archbishop of Canterbury,
appointed a S. Paul's commissioner, 154;
sermon of, after the Fire, 1, 5;
letters of, to Sir C. Wren, 166-168;
contributions of, to the building of S. Paul's, 220;
imprisonment of, in the Tower, 260, 261;
refuses to take the oath of allegiance to William III., 264
Savoy conference, the, 120
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