A short history of the 51 Wren-designed churches in the city of London.
The Great Fire of 1666 devastated the centre of London, with a loss of old St Paul's and eighty-six parish churches. Sir Christopher Wren, working with Commissioners appointed by Parliament,...
The City of London Churches
Celebrates the city's church heritage with a guide to its structures, providing a description, history, date of construction, location, and operating hours for each building.
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Replete with colourful images of his buildings, this concise biography tells the story of a man whose creations are still popular tourist attractions to this day, but also casts light on Wren's credentials as an intellectual and a founding ...
In After the Fire, celebrated photographer and architectural historian Angelo Hornak explores, with the help of his own stunning photographs, the churches built in London during the sixty years that followed the Great Fire.
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"This book presents a comprehensive new photographic survey of the churches, the first undertaken since the 1920s. Nowhere else has such a full pictorial record of this outstanding group of...
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