| Wren's season of notoriety rose mainly from vehement wowser pursuit of his illegal totalisator in Collingwood. |
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| Its clergy rejected Wren's daring central design and got a boring Latin cross instead. |
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| This connection probably influenced Wren's studies of science and mathematics at Oxford. |
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| These persons following according to the usual custom of most of them, met together at Gresham College to hear Mr Wren's lecture, viz. |
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| Even the men he had trained and who owed much of their success to Wren's original and leadership were no longer young. |
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| As we went along, Mother had to look this way and that to follow the line of some excited finger pointing out a blue wren's nest or the place where Charlie killed the snake. |
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| In the 20th century the potency of the influence of Wren's work on English architecture was reduced. |
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| In 1708, Christopher Wren's masterpiece, St Paul's Cathedral, was completed on his birthday. |
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| It did not help that the first life of Wren, Parentalis, was written by Wren's son, and tended to exaggerate Wren's work over all others. |
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| Its construction, completed in Wren's lifetime, was part of a major rebuilding programme in the City after the Great Fire of London. |
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| Its dome, framed by the spires of Wren's City churches, has dominated the skyline for over 300 years. |
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| This small change in configuration was informed by Wren's knowledge of astronomy. |
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| Wren's challenge was to construct a large cathedral on the relatively weak clay soil of London. |
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| These wooden fittings, including the pulpit and Bishop's throne, were designed in Wren's office and built by joiners. |
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| The main sources for Wren's scientific achievements are the records of the Royal Society. |
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| Wren's later life was not without criticisms and attacks on his competence and his taste. |
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| A year into Wren's appointment as a Savilian Professor in Oxford, the Royal Society was created and Wren became an active member. |
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| Out of this work came another of Wren's important mathematical results, namely that the hyperboloid of revolution is a ruled surface. |
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| It is in these records that most of Wren's known scientific works are recorded. |
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| In Wren's age, the profession of architect as understood today did not exist. |
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| Through the Royal Society and his use of optics, the King noticed Wren's works. |
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| Wren's fourth design is known as the Warrant design because it received a Royal warrant for the rebuilding. |
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| From 1661 until 1668 Wren's life was based in Oxford, although his attendance at meetings of the Royal Society meant that he had to make occasional trips to London. |
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| St Paul's has always been the highlight of Wren's reputation. |
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| The height of 365 feet is explained by Wren's interest in astronomy. |
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| Newer generations of architects were beginning to look past Wren's style. |
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| The Baroque school his apprentices had created was already under fire from a new generation that brushed Wren's reputation aside and looked back beyond him to Inigo Jones. |
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| Until the late 20th century St Paul's was the tallest building on the City skyline, designed to be seen surrounded by the delicate spires of Wren's other city churches. |
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| In 1708 Christopher Wren's masterpiece, St Paul's Cathedral was completed. |
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| After his father's royal appointment as Dean of Windsor in March 1635, his family spent part of each year there, but little is known about Wren's life at Windsor. |
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