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dc.coverage.spatialSite: London, England, United Kingdomen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1672-1680 (creation); 1987 (restoration)en_US
dc.creatorWren, Christopheren_US
dc.date1672-1680en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-22T15:01:39Z
dc.date.available2013-01-22T15:01:39Z
dc.date.issued1672-1680en_US
dc.identifier185653en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 1905en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/92878
dc.descriptionFrontal view of the main entry on Walbrook Road; The current church was built by Sir Christopher Wren, following the 15th century building's destruction in the Great Fire. The 63 feet high dome is based on Wren's original design for St. Paul’s, and this is centered over a square of twelve columns. The circular base of the dome is not carried, in the conventional way, by pendentives formed above the arches of the square, but on a circle formed by eight arches that spring from eight of the twelve columns, cutting across each corner in the manner of the Byzantine squinch. This all contributes to create what many consider to be one of Wren's finest church interiors. Sir Nikolaus Pevsner lists it as one of the ten most important buildings in England. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 6/14/2009)en_US
dc.format.mediumstone; plasteren_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectGreat Fire, London, England, 1666en_US
dc.subjectRestoration and conservationen_US
dc.subjectSeventeenth centuryen_US
dc.subjectNeoclassicalen_US
dc.titleSaint Stephen Walbrooken_US
dc.title.alternativeSt. Stephen Walbrooken_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-WC-SSW-A5en_US
vra.culturalContextBritishen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling) carving (processes)en_US
vra.worktypechurchen_US
dc.contributor.displayChristopher Wren (British architect, 1632-1723)en_US


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