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Sir Christopher Wren

Buildings by Location

Buildings attributed to Wren, listed according to place in the order in which construction began. Buildings marked with an asterisk have been destroyed or substantially altered (for details see buildings listed by status ). Those in bold are open to the public although visiting hours may be restricted.

Outside Greater London

Buckinghamshire


Guard-house, Windsor Castle (1685)*
Court House, Windsor (1688)
Upper School, Eton College, Buckinghamshire (1689-91)
Winslow Hall, Buckinghamshire (1699-1702)

Cambridgeshire


Pembroke College Chapel, Cambridge (1663-5)
Emmanuel College Chapel, Cambridge (1668-73)
Trinity College Library, Cambridge (1676-84)

Hertfordshire


Tring Manor House, Hertfordshire (c.1680)*

Leicestershire


St John Moore's School, Appleby, Leicestershire (1693-97)

Lincolnshire


Lincoln Cathedral Library, Lincoln (1674-76)

Missouri, USA


St Mary, Aldermanbury, London (1670-76) (moved to Fulton, Missouri, USA 1965 from the City of London)

Nottinghamshire


Thoresby House, Nottinghamshire (1685-87)*

Oxford


The Sheldonian Theatre, Oxfordshire (1664-9)
Garden Quadrangle, Trinity College, Oxford (three stages 1668, 1682, and 1728)*
Williamson Building, The Queen's College, Oxford(1671-74)*
Tom Tower, Christ Church, Oxford (1681-82)

Staffordshire


Ingestre Church, Staffordshire (1673-76)

Virginia, USA


College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA (1695-96)*

Greater London

The following are now included in Greater London, but this is a very large geographical area and would have been meaningless in the seventeenth century. I thus have further organised them below under their original place names:

City of London


The Custom House, London (1669-71)*
St Christopher-le-Stocks, Threadneedle Street, London (1670-71)*
St Dunstan in the East, London (1670-71)*
St Benet Fink, Threadneedle Street, London (1670-73)*
St Vedast, Foster Lane, London (1670-73)
St Dionis Backchurch, Fenchurch Street, London(1670-74)*
St Michael, Wood Street, London (1670-75)*
St Mildred, Poultry, London(1670-76)*
St Olave, Old Jewry, London (1670-76)*
St Mary-at-Hill, Thames Street, London (1670-76)
St Mary, Aldermanbury, London (1670-76)*
St Edmund King and Martyr, Lombard Street, London (1670-79)
St Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside, London (1671-73)
St George Botolph Lane, London (1671-74)*
The Monument, Fish Street Hill, London (1671-76)
St Magnus Martyr, Lower Thames Street, London (1671-76)*
St Lawrence, Jewry, London (1671-77)
St Nicholas, Cole Abbey, London (1671-77)
St Bride, Fleet Street, London (1671-78)
St Stephen, Walbrook, London (1672-79)
St Stephen, Coleman Street, London (1674-76)*
St Bartholomew, Exchange, London (1674-79)*
St Peter, Cornhill, London (1675-81)
St Paul's Cathedral (1675-1710)
St Michael, Bassishaw, London (1676-79)*
St James, Garlick Hill, London (1676-83)
St Michael, Queenhithe, London (1676-87)*
St Anne and St Agnes, Gresham Street, London (1677-80)
St Antholin, Watling Street, London (1677-82)*
St Benet, Paul's Wharf, London (1677-83)
All Hallows the Great, Lombard Street, London (1677-83)*
St Martin, Ludgate, London (1677-84)
All Hallows, Bread Street, London (1677-84)*
St Swithin, Cannon Street, London (1677-85)*
Christ Church, Newgate Street, London (1677-87)(ruin only)
St Augustine, Watling Street, London (1680-83)*
St Matthew, Friday Street, London (1681-85)*
St Mary Abchurch, London (1681-86)
St Benet, Gracechurch Street, London (1681-86)*
St Mildred, Bread Street, London (1681-87)*
The Navy Office, Seething Lane, London (1682-83)*
St Alban, Wood Street, London (1682-85)*
St Mary Magdalene, Old Fish Street, London (1683-85)*
St Clement, Eastcheap, London (1683-87)
St Margaret Pattens, London(1684-87)
St Michael, Crooked Lane, London (1684-88)*
St Andrew, Holborn, London (1684-90)
St Andrew by the Wardrobe, London (1685-93)
St Margaret, Lothbury, London (1686-90)
St Michael, Paternoster Royal, College Hill, London (1686-94)
All Hallows, Lombard Street, London (1686-94)*
St Mary Somerset, Thames Street, london (1686-95)*
Bridgewater Square Development, London (1688)*
Writing School, Christ's Hospital, London (1692)*
Tower of St Mary Aldermary, Bow Lane, London (1702-4)
Royal Society Respository, Crane Court, Fleet Street, London (1711-12)*
St Michael, Cornhill,London, (tower and upper half of church) (1715-17)

City of Westminster


Drury Lane Theatre, London (1672-4)*
St James's Church, Piccadilly, Westminster (1676-84)
The Cloisters, Pump Court, Middle Temple, London (1680-81)*
St Clement Danes, Strand, Westminster (1680-82)
St Anne's Church, Soho (1685)*(ruins only)
Catholic Chapel, Council Chamber and Privy Gallery, Whitehall Palace (1685-7)*
Queen's Apartment and Terraced Garden, Whitehall Palace (1688-93)*
State Apartments, St James's Palace (1703)*
Marlborough House, St James's, London (1709-11)*

Chelsea


The Royal Hospital, Chelsea (1682-92)

Greenwich


The Royal Observatory, Greenwich (1675-76)
Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich (1696-1716)

Hampton


South and East Ranges, Hampton Court Palace (1689-94)

Kensington


Reconstruction of Kensington Palace (1689-96)*


Buildings marked with an asterisk have been destroyed or substantially altered. Those in bold are periodically open to the public.

To see the buildings listed by other criteria click below:

Buildings listed according to date of Construction

Works listed according to type including parts of buildings

Buildings listed according to current state


 

James Campbell
February 2002