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Sir Christopher Wren PRS FRS was one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history, as well as an anatomist, astronomer, geometer, and mathematician-physicist. He was accorded responsibility for rebuilding 52 churches in the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666, including what is … See more
Wren was born in East Knoyle in Wiltshire, the only surviving son of Christopher Wren the Elder (1589–1658) and Mary Cox, the only child of the Wiltshire squire Robert Cox from Fonthill Bishop. Christopher Sr. was, at that time, … See more
Christopher Wren appeared on the reverse of the first British £50 banknote (Series D) issued in modern times. The notes were printed between 1981 and 1994, and were in circulation until 1996.
In 1997, UNESCO inscribed Wren's Greenwich Hospital on … See moreOne of Wren's friends, Robert Hooke, scientist and architect and a fellow Westminster Schoolboy, said of him "Since the time of Archimedes there scarce ever met in one man in so great perfection such a mechanical hand and so philosophical mind." See more
Since at least the 18th century, the Lodge of Antiquity No. 2, one of the four founding Masonic Lodges of the Premier Grand Lodge of England in 1717, has claimed Christopher Wren to have been its Master at the Goose and Gridiron at St. Paul's churchyard. Whilst … See more
• Wren, Christopher; Ames, Joseph; Wren, Stephen (1750). Parentalia, or, Memoirs of the family of the Wrens. See more
• List of works by Christopher Wren
• List of Christopher Wren churches in London
• Thomas Gilbert, one of Wren's apprentices and adaptant of his architectural style See moreWikipedia text under CC-BY-SA license - People also ask
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