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Reference code
ABC/164
Title
Sir Christopher Wren – memorial volume 1723-1923
Date(s)
- 1923 (Creation)
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1 volume
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(1891-1970)
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Scope and content
An in-depth analysis of Sir Christopher Wren's work, by various authors, each detaling an aspect of which they had most knowledge of, with copies of original drawings, pictures, construction details, plans, sections, and elevations, some to scale. Chapters included are: "Sir Christopher Wren from the Personal Side" by J. Alfred; "Sir Christopher Wren's Parish Churches" by Arthur Keen; "The Design of St. Paul's Cathedral" by A. Beresford Pite; "Some Recent Investigations at St. Paul's" by Mervyn E. Macartney; "St. Paul's Cathedral: Observations on Wren's System of Buttresses for the Dome Piers and on some other things" by Somers Clark; "The Crafts at St. Paul's" by Laurence A. Turner; "Sir Christopher Wren's Public Buildings" by A. E. Richardson; "Sir Christopher Wren and his Plan for London" by S. D. Adshead; "Dutch Influence on the Architecture of Sir Christopher Wren" by Arthur Stratton; "French and Italian Influences on Sir Christopher Wren's Work" by W. Henry Ward; "Pembroke College Chapel, Cambridge , Sir Christopher Wren's First Building" by Ellis H. Minns and Maurice E. Webb; "Sir Christopher Wren's Repair of the Divinity School and Duke Humphrey's Library, Oxford" by Edward Prioleau Warren; "Sir Christopher Wren the Astronomer" by A. R. Hinks;
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Language of material
- English
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Loose pages