Christopher Wren
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Prince Arthur and Katherine of Aragón knelt to take their vows on a platform, draped with red cloth, six feet high which ran the length of the nave (known as "Paul's walk") to the west door of the choir. This is a digital reconstruction giving an impression of Old St. Paul's during the Middle Ages and before it's destruction in the 'Great Fire' in 1666. Today, it is easily recognizable by it's Christopher Wren's dome.
St. Mary Woolnoth | Nicholas Hawksmoor | Fortress of God | Masterpiece by Richard B. Woodward
St. Mary Woolnoth, one of six London churches designed between 1712 and 1733 by the English Baroque architect Nicholas Hawksmoor (1662-1736), is his most compact masterwork. Famed for its proto-brutalist facade and spatial ambiguities, and for exciting morbid thoughts from poets and novelists throughout the 20th century, the building distills qualities that have elevated Hawksmoor, known mainly by the Victorians as an assistant to Christopher Wren, to his modern-day status as a cultish demig...