Sir Christopher Wren: His Family and His Times: With Original Letters and a Discourse on Architecture Hitherto Unpublished. 1585-1723.Phillimore, Lucy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Sir Christopher Wren: His Family and His Times: With Original Letters and a Discourse on Architecture Hitherto Unpublished. 1585-1723.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
appointed architect of S. Paul's, 187;
clears away the ruins of old S. Paul's, 187;
his experiment in blowing up the tower with gunpowder, 188;
his use of a battering ram, 188;
birth of his eldest son, 191;
repair of S. Mary-at-Hill by, 191;
building of S. Stephen's, Walbrook, by, 192, 225;
knighted by Charles II., 194;
rebuilding of Drury Lane by, 196;
salary as architect of S. Paul's, 196;
his model for S. Paul's, 196-198;
lays the first stone of S. Paul's, 200;
death of his wife, 203;
his second marriage, 203;
rebuilding of eight city churches by, 204-207;
building of the Monument by, 207;
his designs for a monument to Charles I., 209;
building of the chapel at Emmanuel College by, 216;
of the Observatory at Greenwich, 216;
birth of his daughter Jane, 217;
rebuilding of five more city churches by, 218, 219;
the marking out of the dome of S. Paul's by, 222;
death of his second wife, 226;
elected President of the Royal Society, 228;
Christ Church gateway built by, 232;
All Hallows, Bread Street, rebuilt by, 232;
S. Peter's, Cornhill, and S. Clement Danes rebuilt by, 233;
his design for a palace at Winchester, 234, 235;
Chelsea Hospital built by, 240;
S. James's, Westminster, built by, 241;
Chichester Cathedral repaired by, 245;
Fawley Court built by, 245;
made Controller of the Works, 246;
elected member for Plympton, 247;
eight more city churches built by, 248-252;
death of his sister Susan, 261;
buildings by, erected at Windsor, 264, 265;
College of Physicians built by, 265;
halls of city companies rebuilt by, 266;
Hampton Court palace rebuilt by, 257, 268;
scheme of, for Greenwich Palace, 269;
his difficulties in placing the organ of S. Paul's, 273;
invention by, of a pulpit on wheels, 280;
letter of, to his son in Paris, 282, 283;
chosen Grand Master of the Freemasons, 285;
Marlborough House built by, 286;
S. Dunstan's-in-the-East repaired by, 287, 288;
statement of, as to repairs of Westminster Abbey, 289-293;
elected member for Weymouth, 298;
death of his daughter Jane, 300;
second letter of, to his son, 302, 303;
letter of, on church building, 305-313;
private houses built by, 317;
last stone of S. Paul's laid by his son, 318;
attack on, by S. Paul's Commissioners, 320;
his petition to Queen Anne, 320, 322;
his unfulfilled design for east end of S. Paul's, 324, 325;
dismissal of, by George I., from the post of surveyor-general,
329;
purchase of Wroxhall Abbey by, 330;
his studies and papers in cipher respecting the longitude at sea,
331, 332;
his death 333;
his burial and monument, 334
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