Sir Christopher Wren

Author : Paul Rabbitts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784423238
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Lisa Jardine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780007107766
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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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

Author : James Elmes
Publisher : London : Chapman & Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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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:

Author : Lucy Phillimore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.1W/5 ( download)

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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:

Author : Paul Jeffery
Publisher : Bloomsbury Continuum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Anthony Geraghty
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780754640714
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : James W. P. Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500295502
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Heywood Gould
Publisher : Franklin Watts
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Charles Henry Bellenden KER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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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:

Author : Lucy Phillimore
Publisher : Lector House
ISBN 13 : 9789389701098
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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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!