Christopher Wren
Books
- Pudding Lane The Great Fire of London, Hour by Hour · Liszt Think
In the early hours of September 2, 1666, a spark in Thomas Farriner’s Pudding Lane bakehouse ignited a catastrophe that consumed medieval London.
- The Pivotal Hour…on started in 1666. It runs between Eastcheap and Thames Street in the historic City of London, and intersects Monument Street, the site of Christopher Wren’s later memorial to the disaster. At this hour, the narrow way was impassable with heat and falling timbers. The fire had already crossed t…
- The Historical Content…demolitions, required years of cleansing and enclosure. The houses that had been pulled down or blown up left gaps in the urban fabric that Christopher Wren and his competitors would later fill with new construction, wider streets, the stone architecture of a rebuilt London. The firebreak had be…
- The Fall of a Cathedral (Tuesday Afternoon, 4 September 1666)…ior by thick masonry. What the faithful could not see, or chose not to see, was the wooden skeleton that now shrouded the entire structure. Christopher Wren had surveyed the cathedral in 1665 and found it in dangerous decay. The king had authorized repairs, and for months scaffolding had climbed…