Christopher Wren

St Paul's Cathedral — London rebuilt

The astronomer-architect who rebuilt London after the Great Fire of 1666. St Paul's Cathedral — its dome the defining feature of the London skyline for three centuries — is the greatest English Baroque building. He designed 52 London churches, the Royal Observatory, and parts of Hampton Court. His epitaph in St Paul's reads: Si monumentum requiris, circumspice — if you seek his monument, look around you.

Key works

• St Paul's Cathedral1675-1710— The dome that defines London
  St Paul's Cathedral, London
• Royal Naval College, Greenwich1696-1712— Baroque grandeur on the Thames
  Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London

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