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do not remove this notice SirSir ChristopherChristopher WrenWren MUAS 16,147 first major architect in Britain a polymath with an intellectual approach easy mastery as opposed to virtuosity rationality and good taste EARLYEARLY EXPERIMENTSEXPERIMENTS , , by Christopher Wren, 1664-9: interior view; roof truss

Whinney, Wren, p 20; Downes, Architecture of Wren, pl 53 Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, from the north Geoffrey Beard, The Work of Christopher Wren ( 1982), pl 61; John Summerson, Architecture in Britain 1530 to 1830, (4th ed, Harmondsworth [Middlesex] 1963 [1953]), pl 75B Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, South front Miles Lewis; Summerson, Architecture in Britain , pl 75A Pembroke College Chapel, Cambridge, by Christopher Wren, 1663-5

Miles Lewis St Paul's Cathedral, with Jones’s alterations Summerson, Architecture in Britain, pl 47(B) Old St Paul's, proposal for the addition of a dome, by Wren, 1666, dome in elevation & section Downes, Architecture of Wren, pls 20, 21 Wren's plan for London, 1666, with churches shaded black Downes, Architecture of Wren, p 50, fig 5 STST PAUL'SPAUL'S CATHEDRALCATHEDRAL St Paul's Cathedral: detail of the London plan, c 1666 Beard, Work of Wren, pl 80 St Paul's Cathedral: first model design, c 1669: part plan & section Downes, Architecture of Wren, p 53, fig 6 St Paul's Cathedral: Greek cross, design c 1672-3 plan & elevation Downes, Architecture of Wren, p 70; Beard, Work of Wren, pl 34 St Paul's Cathedral plans Greek cross, c 1672; Great Model, c 1673-4 Downes, Architecture of Wren, p 70 St Paul's: the Great Model, 1673 MUAS 4,493 St Paul's: plans by Wren Downes, Christopher Wren, pp 165-7 St Paul's, the Warrant Design, 1675: section & plan

Downes, Architecture of Wren, pl 57, p 70 , c1080-1106, crossing rebuilt after 1332: south transept from the octagon

Elfincolor, 591B4 St Paul's, the Warrant Design, 1675 west & south elevations Beard, Work of Wren, pl 90; Downes, Architecture of Wren, pl 56 St Paul's Cathedral, London, by Sir Christopher Wren, as designed, 1675: south elevation Downes, Architecture of Wren, pl 58. St Paul's Cathedral, London, as designed by Wren, 1675, section Downes, Architecture of Wren, pl 59 St Paul's, plan as executed, 1675-1710 Downes, Architecture of Wren, pl 70 St Paul's: section through choir & view of buttresses Whinney, Wren, p 98; Beard, Work of Wren, pl 101 St Paul's, section though dome, looking east

Whinney, Wren, p 120 dome of St Paul's, as built by Wren, 1675-1710 section & plan of carpentry, axonometric section Francis Price, The British Carpenter (London 1753), facing p 30 Margaret Whinney, Wren (London 1971), p 121 Baptistery, Pisa: original and present elevations & sections E H Swift, Roman Sources of Christian Art (New York 1951), after Rouhault de Fleury, Les Monuments du Pise St Paul's, overall view of the ultimate design MUAS 14,988 St Paul's, west elevation

Campbell, Britannicus St Paul's west front, engraved view by Henry Hulsborgh, 1713, and detail of the west towers as built Beard, Work of Wren, pl 107; MUAS 14,986 west towers of St Paul’s, London

Sant' Agnese in Piazza Navona, Rome

MUAS 14,986, 13,504 St Paul's Catheral, ondon,bny Christopher Wren] Dôme des Invalides, Paris, by Jules Hardouin-Mansart, 1680-1: St Paul's, view from the south-east MUAS 24,420 St Paul's, detail of the south side MUAS 24,422 Sta Maria della Pace, Rome, by Pietro da Cortona, 1656-7: contemporary view Varriano, Italian Baroque and Rococo, p 116 St Paul's, nave, looking east ; S Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, , 1565-80

Elfincolor, 20A2 (192) ; Miles Lewis St Paul's, the crossing, looking south-west

Elfincolor, 20A4 (214); Downes, Architecture of Wren, pl 142 SECULARSECULAR WORKSWORKS Trinity College Library, Cambridge, by Wren, 1676-84: view from Neville's Court Elfincolor, 570G1 Trinity Library: original drawings by Wren Downes, Christopher Wren, p 26 Trinity Library: diagram of floor construction Downes, Christopher Wren, p 32 Trinity Library interior Downes, Christopher Wren, p 32 Trinity Library: rear view Miles Lewis Trinity Library from the Cam Elfincolor, 570G3 Hospital: Wren's scheme of 1694: elevation MUAS 6,134 Greenwich Hospital first plan Whinney, Wren, p 189 Greenwich Hospital first design, perspective view Margaret Richardson, : Connoisseur and Collector (London 1995), no 10 Greenwich Hospital, scheme as built, 1696-1715: perspective view , Vitruvius Britannicus, III, pp 3-4 Greenwich Hospital: aerial view Roy Strong, Royal Gardens (London 1992), p 179 Greenwich Hospital: plan Summerson, Architecture in Britain, p 174 Greenwich Hospital: modern view from the river MUAS 4,495 Greenwich Hospital:

view within the forecourt the eastern dome and screen

Beard, Work of Wren, pl 67, replacing Downes, Christopher Wren, p 116; Downes, Christopher Wren, p 116 THETHE CITYCITY CHURCHESCHURCHES some of the City churches of London by Christopher Wren, late C17th Downes, Christopher Wren, pp 144-5 more of the City churches of London by Christopher Wren, late C17th Whinney, Wren, pp 50-51 St Stephen, , by Wren, 1672-9 isometric diagram & plan

MUAS 25,053, 9,835 St Stephen, Walbrook: interiors looking east & west MUAS 2,123, 4,488 St Stephen, Walbrook: the dome MUAS 24,413 St Mildred, Bread Street, begun 1677, destroyed 1941 interior & plan

Whinney, Wren, pp 50-51; MUAS 10,961 St Lawrence, Jewry, 1671-87: MUAS 2,206 St Bride, , 1671-8

Miles Lewis; Country Life, CXXIII, 3182 (9 January 1958), p 50 St Bride, Fleet Street; St James, , 1676-84 Country Life, CXXIII, 3182 (9 January 1958), p 50; MUAS 4,436 St James, Piccadilly, 1676-84 Miles Lewis; MUAS 4,436 , Strand, 1680-2

Miles Lewis; Whinney, Wren, p 50 St Clement Danes, north side Miles Lewis St Clement Danes, from the west, with Gibbs's steeple drawing by J Coney, for the Architectural Series of London Churches, 1818; MUAS 24,409 towers and steeples by Wren MUAS 2,757 , Christ Church College, Oxford, 1682: from the west & the east Miles Lewis St Mary, Aldermary, Queen Victoria Street, London, by Wren, 1681-2; St Mary Somerset, London, by Wren, 1686-95, surviving tower MUAS 24,419; 4,322 St Benet, Paul's Wharf, 1677-83; St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe, 1685-93 Downes, Architecture of Wren, pl 99; MUAS 4,323 St Martin Ludgate, , by Wren, 1677-84: elevation Beard, Work of Wren, pl 171; Miles Lewis St Augustine, , by Wren, 1680-3

Miles Lewis St Bride, Fleet Street, steeple, 1701-3

Miles Lewis; Jeffery, The City Churches, p 224, fig 9 St Charles Borromeo, Antwerp, probably by Pieter Huyssens, 1620: steeple; St Mary-le- Bow, steeple as first proposed (apparently before 1677; St Magnus Martyr, by Wren, completed 1705 Whinney, Wren, p 79; Jeffery, The City Churches, p 39, fig 10; Amery, Wren's London, p 343 St Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside, by Wren, steeple 1678-80 elevation and section of steeple; view; detail of steeple Colen Campbell, Vitruvius Britannicus, II, p 26; Beard, Work of Wren, pl 139; MUAS 24,417 St Mary-le-Bow doorway; design by François Mansart for a doorway for the Hôtel de Conti, Paris, after 1648 Whinney, Wren, p 71 St Vedast, Foster Lane, 1670-3: steeple 1694-7

Miles Lewis Downes, Christopher Wren, p 174