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Abbey, Westminster, Wren and, 137, 138, 139 Aims of architecture, Wren on the, 153 All Hallows, Lombard Street, Church of, 81 Armoury and Mint at the Tower of London, 107 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 110 Association between architecture and military engineering, 13 Astronomy, Wren as a Professor of, 19, 36 Bacon, influence on Wren of, 30, 31 Barometer: Torricelli’s work on the, 36 Wren’s work on the, 36 Belton House, 105 Benson, William, Surveyor-General, 74 Bernini: Lay-out in front of St. Peter’s, Rome, 53, 108; meeting with Wren, 48, 49; referred to, 108 Bird, Robert, coppersmith, 120 Birth of Sir Christopher Wren, 1 Building materials, Wren’s views on, 93, 94 Busby, Dr., of Westminster School, 4, 10, 11 Cambridge: Pembroke College Chapel, 109 Trinity College Library, 46, 47, 109, 110, 125 Campbell, Colin, work at Greenwich Hospital by, 103 Carlyle, Thomas, on the City churches, 97, 98; on Chelsea Hospital, 97 Cathedrals: Lincoln, Honywood Chapel at, 110 St. Paul’s, London. See St. Paul’s Cathedral Salisbury, 137 Chapels: Pembroke College, Cambridge, 46, 109 Trinity College, Oxford, 110 Wadham College, Oxford, 16, 17 Charles I., design for the tomb of, 107, 108; pedestal for statue of, Charing Cross, 104 Chelsea Hospital, 97, 98, 99, 108, 125 Childhood of Wren, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Christ Church: Newgate Street, 90 Oxford, College, 111 Christ’s Hospital, London, 107, 130 Chronology, an attempt at a Wren, 160 Church: St. Andrew, Holborn, 87 St. Clement Danes, Strand, 78, 125 St. James, Piccadilly, 78, 90, 94, 95 St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, 21, 22 Temple Church, 21 Churches, City: Christ Church, Newgate Street, 90 St. Alban, Wood Street, 80, 81 St. Andrew-in-the-Wardrobe, 90 St. Anne and St. Agnes, 81 St. Antholin, Watling Street, 90 St. Augustine, Watling Street, 55, 86, 119, 126 St. Benet, Paul’s Wharf, 86, 119 St. Benet Fink, 90 St. Bride, Fleet Street, 87, 88, 90, 92 St. Clement, Eastcheap, 81 St. Dunstan-in-the-East, 78, 81, 82, 136 St. Lawrence Jewry, 86, 89 St. Magnus, London Bridge, 81, 85 St. Margaret, Lothbury, 86 St. Margaret’s Pattens, Rood Lane, 84, 85, 86 St. Martin, Ludgate, 56, 85 St. Mary Abchurch, 90 St. Mary, Aldermanbury, 81 St. Mary Aldermary, 76, 136 St. Mary-at-Hill, 81 St. Mary-le-Bow Cheapside, 87, 88, 145, 146 St. Mary Somerset, 78 St. Mary Woolnoth (by Hawksmoor), 79 St. Michael, Cornhill, 136 St. Michael Paternoster Royal, 81 St. Mildred, Bread Street, 86, 90, 91, 120 St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, 80 St. Sepulchre, 78 St. Stephen, Coleman Street, 81 St. Stephen, Walbrook, 81, 88, 89, 119 St. Swithin, Cannon Street, 84, 90 St. Vedast, Foster Lane, 79, 80 City Churches, referred to, 97, 98, 119, 120, 124, 126, 136, 145, 146, 160 Coghill, Faith, Wren’s first wife, 20, 21 College: All Souls, Oxford, 11, 12 Christ Church, Oxford, 111 Emmanuel, Cambridge, 110 Morden, Blackheath, 108, 109 Pembroke, Cambridge, 46, 109 of Physicians, Warwick Lane, 107 Queen’s, Oxford, 110 Trinity, Cambridge, 46, 47, 109, 110, 125 Wadham, Oxford, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16 Cox, Mary, mother of Wren, 2 Custom House, London, 107 De l’Orme, Philibert, referred to, 50 Denham, Sir John, Surveyor-General, 43, 101 “Dome of London, The,” 59 Draughtsman, Wren as a, 129, 130 East Knoyle Rectory, Wilts, Wren’s birthplace, 1 Emmanuel College, Cambridge, chapel and cloister at, 110 Etching on glass, Wren’s experiments in, 40 Evelyn, John, 15, 24, 25, 43, 53, 60, 62, 98, 102, 112, 113, 114, 115, 137 Family life of Sir Christopher Wren, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 Fitzwilliam, Jane, Wren’s second wife, 21, 22 Fitzwilliam of Lifford, Lord, father of Wren’s second wife, 21 France, Wren’s travels in, 41, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51 Gibbons, Grinling, 71, 104, 106, 107, 108, 114, 115 Gothic Architecture, Wren and, 138, 139 Greenwich Hospital, 83, 101, 102, 103, 125 Groombridge Place, Kent, 106 Hampton Court Palace, 99, 100, 101, 121, 156 Hawksmoor, Nicholas, 79, 103, 104, 110, 126, 149 Holder, Dr. William, a tutor and brother-in-law of Wren, 3, 20 Honywood Library and Cloister, Lincoln Cathedral, 110 Hooke, Robert, 4, 8 Hospital: Chelsea, 97, 98, 99, 108, 125 Christ’s, London, 107, 130 Greenwich, 101, 102, 103, 125 Kilmainham, Dublin, 108 Houses by, or attributed to, Wren: Belton, 105; Groombridge Place, Kent, 106; Hampton Court Palace, 99, 100, 101, 121, 156; Kensington Palace, 105; Marlborough House, London, 106; Pallant House, Chichester, 106; Winchester Palace, 107; Wren’s House, Chichester, 106 Inventions of Wren, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 Jennings, Richard, master-carpenter, 71 Jones, Inigo, referred to, 13, 43, 51, 52, 53, 70, 101, 106, 144, 145, 146, 147 Kempster, Christopher, 119 Kensington Palace, 105 Kent, William, and Kensington Palace, 105 Kilmainham, Dublin, Royal Hospital at, 108 Knighting of Wren, 121 Lansdowne Chronology, MS. by Christopher Wren junior, 9 Letter of Wren to his son, 22, 23, 24 Library: Honywood, Lincoln Cathedral, 110 Trinity College, Cambridge, 109, 110, 125 Love-letter from Wren to Faith Coghill, 20, 21 Marlborough House, London, 106 Mathematics, Wren’s study of, 4, 31 Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, Wren’s conjectural restoration of the, 132, 133, 134 Middleton, Constance, wife of Christopher Wren junior, 25 Mint, the, in the Tower of London, 107 Monument, the, London, 34, 104 Morden College, Blackheath, 108, 109 Morris, William, and the City churches, 97, 98 Museum, Ashmolean, Oxford, 110 “News from the Dead,” pamphlet by Wren, referred to, 16 Oughtred, Mr., Wren’s letter to, 7 Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 110 Christ Church College, 111 Incident at, 16 Queen’s College, 110 Sheldonian Theatre, 45, 46 Trinity College Chapel at, 110 Wren’s education at, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 Palace: Hampton Court, 99, 100, 101, 121, 156 Kensington, 105 Winchester, 107 Palladio’s influence on Wren, 52 Pallant House, Chichester, 106 Parentage and pedigree of Wren, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Parentalia, the, 1, 3, 5, 8, 9, 13, 15, 22, 24, 26, 34, 41, 65, 109, 124, 125, 132, 149 Paris, Wren’s journey to, referred to, 41, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51 Parliament, Wren as a member of, 120, 121 Pascal’s problem and Wren’s solution of it, 34, 35, 36, 158, 159 Pedestal of the Charles I. statue, Charing Cross, 104 Pembroke College Chapel, Cambridge, 46, 109 Pepys, Samuel, 14, 114, 130 Physicians, College of, Warwick Lane, 107 Pigott, Mrs. Corbett, 26 Plan for rebuilding London after the Great Fire, Wren’s, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58 Portraits of Sir Christopher Wren, some, 164, 165, 166 Pulpits and pews, Wren’s views on, 95 Queen’s College, Oxford, 110 Ripley, Thomas, and Greenwich Hospital, 103 Royal Society, Wren and the, 12, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42 Ruskin, John, and Renaissance Architecture, 137 Ryland’s pedigree of the Wren family, 18 St. Alban, Wood Street, 81 St. Andrew, Holborn, 78 St. Andrew-in-the-Wardrobe, 90 St. Anne and St. Agnes, 81 St. Antholin, Watling Street, 90 St. Augustine, Watling Street, 55, 86, 119, 126 St. Benet, Paul’s Wharf, 86, 119 St. Benet Fink, 90 St. Bride, Fleet Street, 87, 87, 88, 90, 92 St. Clement Danes, Strand, 78, 125 St. Clement, Eastcheap, 81 St. Dunstan-in-the-East, 78, 81, 82, 136 St. James, Piccadilly, 78, 90, 94, 95 St. Lawrence Jewry, 86, 89 St. Magnus, London Bridge, 81, 85 St. Margaret, Lothbury, 86 St. Margaret Pattens, Rood Lane, 84, 85, 86 St. Martin, Ludgate, 56, 85 St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, 21, 22 St. Mary Abchurch, 90 St. Mary, Aldermanbury, 81 St. Mary Aldermary, 78, 136 St. Mary-at-Hill, 81 St. Mary-le-Bow Cheapside, 87, 88, 145 St. Mary Somerset, 78 St. Mary Woolnoth, 79 St. Michael, Cornhill, 136 St. Michael Paternoster Royal, 81 St. Mildred, Bread Street, 86, 90, 91, 120 St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, 80 St. Paul’s: Old, Wren’s plans for the restoration of, 56, 59, 60, 61; Cathedral, London, balustrade on the upper cornice of, 74; cost of, 73; dome of, 55, 56, 59, 71, 103; first design for, 63; mean treatment of Wren over, 73, 74; opening of, 73; “rejected” or “model” second design for, 63, 64, 64, 65, 66, 66; South Staircase of, referred to, 34; third or “warrant” design for, 67, 68; Wren’s achievement in, 76, 77; reference to, 83, 116, 121, 122, 126, 143, 145, 147, 148, 154, 155, 156 St. Peter’s, Rome, 53 St. Sepulchre, 78 St. Stephen, Coleman Street, 81 St. Stephen, Walbrook, 81, 88, 89, 119 St. Swithin, Cannon Street, 84, 90 St. Vedast, Foster Lane, 79, 80 Salisbury Cathedral, 137 Scarborough, Sir Charles, a tutor of Wren, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10 Shaw, Norman, and Hampton Court Palace, 100 Shepheard, Rev. William, a tutor of Wren, 3 Sheldonian Theatre at Oxford, 45, 46 Soane Museum, Wren relics at, 121 Sir John, 99 Sons of Sir Christopher Wren, 25 Spires, City church, by Wren, 84 Strong, Edward, master-mason, 22, 23, 24, 69, 71, 73, 119, 120 Talman, William, architect, 101, 156 Temple Bar, 104, 105 Temple Church, 21 Thermometer designed by Wren, 8 Thornhill, Sir James, paintings in St. Paul’s by, 74 Tijou, Jean, metal-worker, 71, 101, 120, 121 Tomb, Wren’s design for a, 108 Tom Tower, the, Oxford, 111 Torricelli, his work on the barometer, 36 Tower of London, 107 Town-planning, Wren and, 53 Trinity College, Cambridge, Library of, 46, 47, 109, 110, 125 Trinity College, Oxford, Chapel at, 110 University degrees, Wren’s, 11, 12 Vanbrugh, Sir John, 103, 106, 110, 149, 157 Ward, Dr. Seth, 9 Webb, John, 43, 101, 106 Wilkins, John, Warden of Wadham, 9, 12, 13 Winchester Palace, 107 Wotton, Sir Henry, 139, 140, 141, 142, 157 Wren, Sir Christopher: Family and relations: Father, 1; mother, 2; sisters, 18; grandfather, 1; great-grandfather, 1; sons, 21, 22, 23; daughter, 13; brother-in-law, 2; uncle, 2, 18; cousin, 18 Education and Studies: Studies at home, 3; at Westminster School, 4; under Sir Charles Scarborough, 5; Assistant at the Surgeon’s Hall, 7; at Oxford, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17; matriculation of, 11; University degrees of, 11, 12; Fellowship of All Souls, 16 Personal: Critical mind, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142; death, 122; epitaph of, 75; health of, 4, 10, 18; heirlooms at Soane Museum, 121; Kirkall engraved portrait, 26; legible penmanship, 4; letter to his son, Christopher, 22, 23, 24; letter in Latin to his father, 5; love-letter to Faith Coghill, 20; marriage, first, to Faith Coghill, 21; marriage, second, to Jane Fitzwilliam, 21; patience of, 8; poetic gift of, 16; portraits of, 164, 165, 166; retirement, 75; social relaxations, 114, 115, 116; theories of beauty, 150, 151; will, 25, 26, 27 Scientific Studies and Achievements: As an astronomer, 32, 33, 34, 37; as a classical archæologist, 132, 133, 134; as a student and scholar, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143; essays, 15; experiments in etching on glass, 40; experiments in natural science, 38, 39, 40, 41; inventions of, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17; part in the development of natural science, 28, 29; place as a mathematician, 34, 35, 36; scientific labors of 116, 117, 118; solution of Pascal’s problem, 34, 35, 36, 158, 159; transactions with the Royal Society, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42 Professional and Public: “Architect of Adventure, The,” 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 157; as a Member of Parliament, 120, 121; as a professional man, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131; influence of Inigo Jones, 51, 52; influence of Palladio, 52; introduction to Bernini, 48; knighting of, 121; plan for rebuilding London, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58; remuneration and fees, 124, 125; Surveyor-General of His Majesty’s Works, 43, 124, 125, 127, 128, 129; travels in France, 41, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51 Wren, Dean Christopher (father), 1, 2, 3, 20, 142 Wren, Christopher (second son) 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 119, 125 Constance (daughter-in-law), 25 Cuthbert (great-grandfather), 1 Faith (mother), 2, 18 Francis (grandfather), 1 Gilbert (eldest son, died in infancy), 21 Jane (daughter), 13, 21, 22 Margaret (great-granddaughter), 26 Matthew, Bishop of Ely (uncle), 2, 18 Matthew (cousin), 18 Stephen (grandson), 26 William (great-great-grandfather), 1 William (third son), 22, 24, 25, 27 Wren chronology, an attempt at a, 160 Wren’s House, Chichester, 106

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