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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

William and Mary College, 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
October 2000