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47921	Various	The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, vol. 06, No. 11, November 1900 The Work of Sir Christopher Wren			.txt	text/plain	3479	162	65	SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN moreover, Wren's work has an especial interest. style, particularly in the architecture of churches, was in no slight Sir Christopher Wren was born at East Knoyle, Wiltshire, on October his twenty-ninth year devoted himself with great genius to scientific design, and at the same time attaining the quality of great loftiness in 1710 Sir Christopher, who had been a year old when the first stone street.) In 1684 Wren was appointed by Charles II. [Illustration: PLATE LXXXVII STEEPLE, CHURCH OF ST. Of the fifty-two churches which Wren built in London, and of which a In 1698 Wren was appointed surveyor to Westminster Abbey, and proceeded fire, was built by Wren, between 1671 and 1678. "The great inequality of Wren's achievement," writes Fergusson, "is [Illustration: PLATE LXXXIX TEMPLE BAR: LONDON] For the last five years of his life Wren resided much at his house in	./cache/47921.txt	./txt/47921.txt