Sir Christopher Wren FRS was an English architect, astronomer, mathematician and physicist who was one of the most highly acclaimed architects in the history of England. Known for his work in the English Baroque style, he was accorded responsibility for rebuilding 52 churches in the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666, including what is regarded as his masterpiece, St Paul's Cathedral, on Ludgate Hill, completed in 1710.
Wren in a portrait by Godfrey Kneller (1711)
Wadham College, Oxford, where Wren was a student in 1650–51
Wren, portrait c. 1690 by John Closterman
Crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral, Wren's memorial on the left
English Baroque architecture
English Baroque is a term used to refer to modes of English architecture that paralleled Baroque architecture in continental Europe between the Great Fire of London (1666) and roughly 1720, when the flamboyant and dramatic qualities of Baroque art were abandoned in favour of the more chaste, rule-based Neo-classical forms espoused by the proponents of Palladianism.
St Paul's Cathedral by Sir Christopher Wren, 1674–1711.
The cathedral interior looking east towards the High Altar.
Seaton Delaval Hall by Sir John Vanbrugh, 1718.