Christopher Wren - the Leading English Baroque Architect

The English Baroque leading architect became Christopher Wren for the a lack of ostentation and simplicity that can hardly be the qualities which identified Wren’s architecture as one observes the magnificent dome of St Paul's or Hampton Court’s state apartments. As an architectural depiction this is ordinary stuff an appropriate admiration of symmetry, size, setting and splendour was hardly innovative among knowledgeable gentry in the middle of the XVII century.

The churches with orientation to the 56 designs and sufficient documentary sustain the stylistic indication and propose that 6 were invented by Christopher Wren which were: St Mary-le-Bow, designed from 1670 to 1680; St Bride Fleet Street, designed from 1671 to 1678; St Stephen Walbrook, designed from 1672 to 1680; St James Piccadilly designed from 1676 to 1684; St Clement Danes designed from 1679 to 1685; St Andrew Holborn designed from 1684 to 1686. Four of them are situated in the smart parts of London to the west side of St Paul's Cathedral; no one is situated in the east of London, but only St Stephen Walbrook and St Mary-leBow are designed in the central part of the City.