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The Service In St. Paul's Cathedral.
buildings , the earliest that were erected from his designs being the Royal Exchange and Custom House , the Monument , Temple Bar—which is still preserved in Theobald ' s Park , Hertfordshire—and several of the City Churches , including that of St . Stephen's , Walbrook . At the same time , he prepared his plans for the new St . Paul's , but here again he found himself hampered by the conflicting opinions of the different bodies and
persons interested in its restoration , and he found himself compelled to set aside his original scheme in favour of the one from which the Cathedral , as we know it , was rebuilt , and even this was
modified in more than one important particular . At length , however , Sir Christopher—for the honour of knighthood had been conferred upon him in
1672—had the supreme satisfaction of seeing the lirst stone of the new edifice laid on the 21 st June , 1675 . On the 2 nd December , 1697 , the building was opened for public worship , and in 1710 the last stone was laid on the summit oi Die
lantern by his son Christopher , the whole structure being completed under the superintendence of one and the same architect in the comparatively brief period of 35 years . But the whole of
his design , and particularly that portion of it which dealt with the interior decoration of the Cathedral was not cat ricd out , and it has been reserved ( or the energy and munificence of the present
generation of Englishmen to do towards the completion of our grand cathedral church of St . Paul , what Wren was perforce obliged to leave undone In the meantime , Wren , who hud resigned
The Service In St. Paul's Cathedral.
his Savilian Professorship at Oxford in 16 73 , and in 16 S 0 had been elected President of the Royal Society , was several times returned to Parliament , but his professional engagements left him little time for other pursuits , and for many years he enjoyed the favour of successive Sovereigns , by whom he was commissioned to erect , or add to , many other buildings designed for Royal use . On the death of the last of his patrons , Anne ,
WELL 1 KGT 0 X MONUMENT—ST . PAUL ' S CATUEM'AL ,
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and tlie accession of George I ., the latter dismissed him from his office of Surveyor-General , and Wren spent the remaining years of his life in privacy ,
passing peacefully to his final rest on the 25 th February , 1723 , in the 91 st year of his age . He was accorded the honours of a public funeral , and his body lies in the crypt of the Cathedral he had
planned , the appropriate device inscribed on his tomb being "Si monument um qiueris , circumspice . " His son , Christopher , who died in 1747 , compiled tlie greater part of the well-known work ,
" Parenfalia , or Memoirs of the Famil y of the Wrens , " that which the younger Christopher left unfinished being carried to a conclusion by Stephen Wren , grandson of the architect , and published in '
750-Among thc numerous buildings erected from the plans of Sir Christopher , in addition to St . Paul ' s Cathedral , the Shcldonian Theatre , Oxford , the
Library , ike ., oi Trinity College , Cambridge , and those others already enumerated in Ihe foregoing brief memoir , may be mentioned the Royal Observatory at Greenwich , Chelsea Hospital , the Asliaiolcan Museum , Oxford , & c , & c .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Service In St. Paul's Cathedral.
buildings , the earliest that were erected from his designs being the Royal Exchange and Custom House , the Monument , Temple Bar—which is still preserved in Theobald ' s Park , Hertfordshire—and several of the City Churches , including that of St . Stephen's , Walbrook . At the same time , he prepared his plans for the new St . Paul's , but here again he found himself hampered by the conflicting opinions of the different bodies and
persons interested in its restoration , and he found himself compelled to set aside his original scheme in favour of the one from which the Cathedral , as we know it , was rebuilt , and even this was
modified in more than one important particular . At length , however , Sir Christopher—for the honour of knighthood had been conferred upon him in
1672—had the supreme satisfaction of seeing the lirst stone of the new edifice laid on the 21 st June , 1675 . On the 2 nd December , 1697 , the building was opened for public worship , and in 1710 the last stone was laid on the summit oi Die
lantern by his son Christopher , the whole structure being completed under the superintendence of one and the same architect in the comparatively brief period of 35 years . But the whole of
his design , and particularly that portion of it which dealt with the interior decoration of the Cathedral was not cat ricd out , and it has been reserved ( or the energy and munificence of the present
generation of Englishmen to do towards the completion of our grand cathedral church of St . Paul , what Wren was perforce obliged to leave undone In the meantime , Wren , who hud resigned
The Service In St. Paul's Cathedral.
his Savilian Professorship at Oxford in 16 73 , and in 16 S 0 had been elected President of the Royal Society , was several times returned to Parliament , but his professional engagements left him little time for other pursuits , and for many years he enjoyed the favour of successive Sovereigns , by whom he was commissioned to erect , or add to , many other buildings designed for Royal use . On the death of the last of his patrons , Anne ,
WELL 1 KGT 0 X MONUMENT—ST . PAUL ' S CATUEM'AL ,
¦ vnt unimoL'tiLH ivi .-t ' . v .
and tlie accession of George I ., the latter dismissed him from his office of Surveyor-General , and Wren spent the remaining years of his life in privacy ,
passing peacefully to his final rest on the 25 th February , 1723 , in the 91 st year of his age . He was accorded the honours of a public funeral , and his body lies in the crypt of the Cathedral he had
planned , the appropriate device inscribed on his tomb being "Si monument um qiueris , circumspice . " His son , Christopher , who died in 1747 , compiled tlie greater part of the well-known work ,
" Parenfalia , or Memoirs of the Famil y of the Wrens , " that which the younger Christopher left unfinished being carried to a conclusion by Stephen Wren , grandson of the architect , and published in '
750-Among thc numerous buildings erected from the plans of Sir Christopher , in addition to St . Paul ' s Cathedral , the Shcldonian Theatre , Oxford , the
Library , ike ., oi Trinity College , Cambridge , and those others already enumerated in Ihe foregoing brief memoir , may be mentioned the Royal Observatory at Greenwich , Chelsea Hospital , the Asliaiolcan Museum , Oxford , & c , & c .