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• Sir Christopher Wren I INTRODUCTION Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723), English architect, scientist, and mathematician, who is considered his country's foremost architect.

  Saint Paul’s Cathedral, LondonSaint Paul’s Cathedral, a major London landmark and the greatest achievement of architect Sir Christopher Wren, is a fineexample of English Baroque architecture. It was completed in 1710 and replaced the older cathedral that had beendestroyed in the Great Fire of 1666.Courtesy of Liesel Stanbridge Wren's designs for St. Paul's Cathedral were accepted in 1675, and he superintended the building of the vast baroque structure until its completion in 1710. It ranks asone...

• Wren, sir Christopher - biographie du peintre.

  Wren (Christopher), Royal Hospital (Chelsea) Mis en chantier en 1682 sur l'ordre de Charles II, qui voulait offrir un toit aux soldats retraités et aux invalides de guerre, le Royal Hospital de Chelsea a été inauguré dix ans plus tard parGuillaume III et Marie II. C'est l'un des plus beaux ensembles architecturaux de Londres, dessiné par sir Christopher Wren ; il comprend notamment une magnifique collégiale et abrite encoreaujourd'hui quelque quatre cents pensionnaires.London Aerial Photo Librar...

• Sir Christopher Wren.

• Wren, sir Christopher - architecture.

• Wren (sir Christopher), 1632-1723, né à East Knoyle (Wiltshire), mathématicien, astronome et architecte anglais.

• Christopher Wren, Cathédrale Saint-Paul, Londres

• Christopher Wren

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• Church (building) I INTRODUCTION Church (building), a building designed for worship for groups of Christians.

  nearby was a basilica; the two are now combined in one building, known as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The original Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome, replaced bythe present church during the Renaissance, was a huge processional basilica with projecting wings—transepts—forming a Latin cross in plan. The domed, centralizedform persisted in the Byzantine and Slavic East, where medieval churches, small in scale, often took the form of five domes arranged on a Greek cross plan. IV MEDIEVAL EUROPE...

• Birding - biology.

  swallows, and rock doves nest on buildings in cities, towns, and farms. The chimney swift has abandoned hollow trees for chimneys as a nest site in urban areas.Mallards and Canada geese—once exclusively wild, migratory species—now live year-round in the open spaces found in city parks and golf courses. Nearly all purplemartins, a songbird species that once used the abandoned nests of woodpeckers or the natural cavities of cliffs or dead trees, now live primarily in structures specificallyconstru...