Download or read book Sir Christopher Wren written by Paul Rabbitts and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Christopher Wren (1632–1723) is now mostly remembered as a genius of architecture – but he was also an accomplished polymath, who only came to architecture quite late in life. Most famous as the mastermind behind the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral and more than fifty parish churches after the Great Fire of London, among his countless other projects Wren also designed the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, the Royal Naval Hospital at Greenwich, and much of Hampton Court Palace. Replete with colourful images of his buildings, this concise biography tells the story of a man whose creations are still popular tourist attractions to this day, but also casts light on Wren's credentials as an intellectual and a founding member of the Royal Society.
Download or read book On a Grander Scale written by Lisa Jardine and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Sir Christopher Wren from one of Britain's best writers and historians
Download or read book Sir Christopher Wren His Family and His Times written by Lucy Phillimore and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sir Christopher Wren and His Times written by James Elmes and published by London : Chapman & Hall. This book was released on 1852 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The City Churches of Sir Christopher Wren written by Paul Jeffery and published by Bloomsbury Continuum. This book was released on 2007-06-15 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Fire of 1666 devastated the centre of London, with a loss of old St Paul's and eighty-six parish churches. Sir Christopher Wren, working with Commissioners appointed by Parliament, was responsible for rebuilding the cathedral and fifty-one of the parish churches, although the immediate need to start rebuilding made his design for an overall replanning of the City impossible. The work was funded by a tax on coals brought into the City of London. Much has been written about Wren's rebuilding of St Paul's, while the other fifty-ne parish chirches he was appointed to reconstruct are generally overlooked. This is the first modern book to examine them as a whole. Paul Jeffery describes how and when the churches were built, exploring the respective contributions of Wren and of his two principal assistants, Robert Hooke and Nicholas Hawksmoor. The result of their work was a unique set of contemporary churches. While not all are of the standard of Wren's masterpieces, such as St Stephen Walbrook and St Bride's, none is without architectural merit and interest. The second part of the book is a gazetteer of all the churches, including those that no longer exist. The book is heavily illustrated and provides a visual strong record of all the churches. Since they were built the Wren churches have suffered steady losses. St Christopher-le-Stocks was demolished in 1782 to make way for the Bank of England. Others, such as St Dionis Backchurch and St Antholin Budge Row, were lost to Victorian parish rationalisation. Many were destroyed or badly damaged in the Second World War. Only twenty-three of the original fifty-one remain. These are now under threat again, with the Templeman Report's proposal that only four of the existing churches (none by Wren) should be retained as parish churches. They provide a test case of conservation, sitting as they do in the middle of the City of London. The City Churches of Sir Christopher Wren presents a clear case both for their importance and for their preservation.
Download or read book The Architectural Drawings of Sir Christopher Wren written by Anthony Geraghty and published by Lund Humphries Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723) was the greatest architect of his time and is best known for his work in London after the Great Fire of 1666, in particular his iconic work on the restoration of St Paul's Cathedral. This catalogue is a comprehensive survey of the collection of Wren workshop drawings held by All Souls College, Oxford. It comprises 453 illustrations by Wren himself and by Edward Woodroofe, Thomas Laine and most notably by Nicholas Hawksmoor.
Download or read book Sir Christopher Wren By C H B K written by Charles Henry Bellenden KER and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sir Christopher Wren written by Lucy Phillimore and published by Lector House. This book was released on 2020-09-04 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Christopher Wren This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions. 2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work. We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING!
Download or read book Sir Christopher Wren written by Lena Milman and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Work of Christopher Wren written by Geoffrey Beard and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sir Christopher Wren written by Lawrence Weaver and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wren s City of London Churches written by John Christopher and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short history of the 51 Wren-designed churches in the city of London.
Download or read book On a Grander Scale written by Lisa Jardine and published by Harper. This book was released on 2003-01-21 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trough the prism of the tumultuous life and brilliant intellect of Sir Christopher Wren, the multitalented architect of Saint Paul's Cathedral in London, historian Lisa Jardine unfolds the vibrant, extraordinary emerging new world of late-seventeenth-century science and ideas. The man behind the bold, imposing beauty of Saint Paul's was as remarkable as the monuments he has left us. Wren was a versatile genius who could have pursued a number of brilliant careers with equal virtuosity. A mathematical prodigy, an accomplished astronomer, a skillful anatomist, and a founder of the Royal Society, he eventually made a career in what he described disparagingly in later life as "Rubbish " -- architecture, and the design and construction of public buildings. Wren was a major figure at a turning point in English history. He mapped moons and the trajectories of comets for kings; lived and worked under six monarchs; pursued astronomy and medicine during two civil wars; exercised his creativity through the English Commonwealth, the Great Fire, the Restoration. His royal employment out lasted abdication, Dutch invasion, and the eventual extinction of the Stuart dynasty. Beyond the public achievements, Jardine explores Wren's personal motivations and passions. He was a sincere, intensely moral man with a remarkable capacity for friendship. His career was shaped by lasting associations forged during a turbulent boyhood and a lifelong loyalty to the memory of his father's master and benefactor, the "martyred king," Charles I. Everything Wren undertook, he envisaged on a grander scale -- bigger, better, more enduring than anything that had gone before.
Download or read book Building St Paul s written by James W. P. Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building St Paul's tells the story of the cathedral that has dominated London's skyline for 300 years and of those responsible for its construction from the time of the disastrous Great Fire to final completion in 1708. The figure of Sir Christopher Wren is well known, but this book also considers those ordinary craftsmen, the contractors and overseers, the quarrymen on the Isle of Portland, the humble stonemasons and carpenters who shaped the materials. James Campbell is the first historian to plough through the documents in search of these people: he describes life on a seventeenth-century building site, the workers' day-to-day responsibilities, how some were poorly paid while others became millionaires. He also unravels the struggles for money that at one time threatened to undermine the whole enterprise. Campbell's account reaffirms St Paul's not only as one man's masterwork, but as an incredible collaborative achievement.
Download or read book Sir Christopher Wren written by Heywood Gould and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 1970 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the architect who helped rebuild London after the fire of 1666 and who redesigned St. Paul's Cathedral.
Download or read book Sir Christopher Wren Scientist Scholar and Architect With Portraits written by Sir Lawrence WEAVER and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
