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| Named Person: | Christopher Wren, Sir |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Rudolf Dircks; Royal Institute of British Architects. |
| OCLC Number: | 824726 |
| Notes: | Facsimiles on end-papers. Edited by Rudolf Dircks. |
| Description: | xvi, 279, [1] p. col. front., illus. (incl. facsims.) plates (part col., 1 fold.) ports. (1 col.) plans (part fold.) 30 x 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction / by Aston Webb -- Sir Christopher Wren from the personal side / by J. Alfred Gotch -- 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 of 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 -- 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 -- Sir Christopher Wren's contributions to biological science / a note by William M. Bayliss -- Sir Christopher Wren, merchant adventurer / by William Schooling -- The cross and the dome (epilogue) / by S.A. Alexander. |
| Responsibility: | bicentenary memorial volume published under the auspices of the Royal Institute of British Architects. |
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