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Christopher Wren
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Sir Christopher Wren
MUAS 16,147
Christopher Wren
first major Baroque architect in Britain
a polymath with an intellectual approach
easy mastery as opposed to virtuosity
rationality and good taste
EARLY EXPERIMENTS
Sheldonian
Theatre, Oxford,
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 (London 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
ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
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
Ely Cathedral,
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, Vitruvius
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, Andrea
Palladio, 1565-80
Elfincolor, 20A2 (192) ;
Miles Lewis
St Paul's, the
crossing, looking
south-west
Elfincolor, 20A4 (214);
Downes, Architecture of
Wren, pl 142
SECULAR WORKS
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
Greenwich 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, John Soane: Connoisseur and Collector (London 1995), no 10
Greenwich Hospital, scheme as built, 1696-1715: perspective view
Colen Campbell, 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
THE CITY CHURCHES
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,
Walbrook, 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, Fleet Street,
1671-8
Miles Lewis; Country Life,
CXXIII, 3182 (9 January 1958), p
50
St Bride, Fleet Street; St James, Piccadilly, 1676-84
Country Life, CXXIII, 3182 (9 January 1958), p 50; MUAS 4,436
St James, Piccadilly, 1676-84
Miles Lewis; MUAS 4,436
St Clement Danes,
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
Tom Tower, 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, Ludgate Hill, by Wren, 1677-84: elevation
Beard, Work of Wren, pl 171; Miles Lewis
St Augustine,
Watling Street, 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-leBow, 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