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A short history of renaissance architecture in England, 1500-1800 (1900)

Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir, 1856-1942 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 138

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ir John Denham,the Surveyor-General of Works, from whom he can have learntvery little, and his first work was Pembroke Chapel at Cambridgefor Matthew Wren (1663-64), a simple and well-proportioneddesign, though quite incongruous with the adjacent buildings.In the same year he began the Sheldonian… … /. Valentine, photo. TRINITY COLLEGE CHAPEL, OXFORD. (BY SIR C. WREN.) CHAP. VII] SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN iii of manner found in his later work. The inside is uninteresting,and the details of the exterior coarse and heavy. In 1665 Wren designed the inner court of Trinity College,Oxford, and in the…

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