Christopher Wren

Sir Christopher Wren, FRS (20 October 1632–25 February 1723) was an English architect of the 17th century, famous for his role in the re-building of London's churches after the Great Fire of London of 1666.

Major works attributed to Wren

Chapels

• Pembroke College Chapel, Cambridge
• Emmanuel College Chapel, Cambridge
• Catholic Chapel, Whitehall Palace

Churches

Surviving

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• St Andrew by the Wardrobe, London
• St Andrew, Holborn, London
• St Anne and St Agnes, Gresham Street, London
• St Benet Fink, Threadneedle Street, London
• St Benet Paul's Wharf, Queen Victoria Street, London
• St Bride, Fleet Street, London
• St Clement Danes, Strand, Westminster
• St Clement Eastcheap, London
• St Dunstan in the East, London
• St Edmund the King, Lombard Street, London
• St James Garlickhythe, Garlick Hill, London
• St James's Piccadilly, Westminster
• St Lawrence Jewry, London
• St Magnus Martyr, Lower Thames Street, London
• St Margaret Pattens, London
• St Margaret, Lothbury, London
• St Martin Ludgate, London
• St Mary Abchurch, London
• St Mary Aldermary, Bow Lane, London
• St Mary-at-Hill, Thames Street, London
• St Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside, London
• St Michael Paternoster Royal, College Hill, London
• St Michael, Cornhill, London (tower and upper half of main building)
• St Nicholas Cole Abbey, London
• St Paul's Cathedral
• St Peter upon Cornhill, Cornhill, London
• St Stephen Walbrook, London
• St Vedast alias Foster, Foster Lane, London
• Enlarged the Protestant Church in the Savoy, London
• Ingestre Church, Staffordshire

Destroyed

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• All Hallows the Great, Lombard Street, London
• All Hallows, Bread Street, London
• All Hallows, Lombard Street, London
• Christ Church Newgate, Newgate Street, London
• St Alban, Wood Street, London
• St Anne's Church, Soho
• St Antholin, Watling Street, London
• St Augustine with St Faith, Watling Street, London
• St Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange, Exchange, London
• St Benet, Gracechurch Street, London
• St Christopher-le-Stocks, Threadneedle Street, London
• St Dionis Backchurch, Fenchurch Street, London
• St George, Botolph Lane, London
• St Mary Aldermanbury*, London
• St Mary Magdalene, Old Fish Street, London
• St Mary Somerset, Thames Street, London
• St Matthew, Friday Street, London
• St Michael Queenhithe, Upper Thames Street, London
• St Michael, Crooked Lane, London
• St Michael, Wood Street, London
• St Mildred, Bread Street, London
• St Mildred, Poultry, London
• St Olave Old Jewry, London
• St Stephen Coleman, Coleman Street, London
• St Swithin London Stone, Cannon Street, London

College halls of residence

• Garden Quadrangle, Trinity College, Oxford
• Williamson Building, The Queen's College, Oxford

Court rooms

• Court House, Windsor

Gateways & entrances

• Temple Bar, London
• Tom Tower, Christ Church, Oxford

Government offices

• The Custom House, London
• The Navy Office, Seething Lane, London

Guard houses

• Guard House, Windsor Castle

Hospitals

• The Royal Hospital, Chelsea
• Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich
• Morden College, Blackheath, London (like Greenwich Hospital intended as a retirement home, but for retired merchants rather than sailors)

Houses

• Tring Manor House, Hertfordshire
• Thoresby House, Nottinghamshire
• Bridgewater Square Development, London
• Winslow Hall, Buckinghamshire
• Marlborough House, St James's, London

Libraries

• Lincoln Cathedral Library, Lincoln
• Trinity College Library, Cambridge

Monuments

• The Monument, Fish Street Hill, London

Observatories & scientific buildings

• The Royal Observatory, Greenwich
• Repository, Royal Society, Crane Court, Fleet Street, London

Palaces

• Winchester Palace, Winchester
• Catholic Chapel, Council Chamber and Privy Gallery, Whitehall Palace
• Queen's Apartment and Terraced Garden, Whitehall Palace
• South and East Ranges, Hampton Court Palace
• Reconstruction of Kensington Palace

Schools & colleges

• Upper School, Eton College, Buckinghamshire
• Writing School, Christ's Hospital, London
• St John Moore's School, Appleby, Leicestershire
• The Wren Building of the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA

Theatres

• Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford (not for plays but for University ceremonies)
• Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (replaced)

See also

• On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Career of Sir Christopher Wren (ISBN 0007107757 hardback, ISBN 0007107765 paperback)
• His Invention So Fertile: A Life of Christopher Wren (ISBN 0195149890)