Sir Christopher Wren by Paul Rabbitts

Author:Paul Rabbitts
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781784423247
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-11-05T00:00:00+00:00

A nineteenth-century view of St Clement Danes, from a collection published by Rudolph Ackermann (1764-1834) in 1816.

Like so many other ‘Wren churches’ in London, St Clement Danes is in an elegant neo-classical style, with a tall west tower rising in stages like the top of a wedding cake.

ST CLEMENT, EASTCHEAP

The other church dedicated to St Clement is St Clement, Eastcheap, found just outside the old city boundary. It was rebuilt by Wren between 1683 and 1687, since in the parish account for 1685 there is the following item: ‘To one third of a hogshead of wine, given to Sir Christopher Wren, £4 2s.’ The church has been much altered over the years, in particular by William Butterfield in 1872, a well-known architect of the Gothic Revival who substantially renovated St Clement’s to conform with the contemporary Anglican ‘High Church’ taste. This involved removing the galleries, replacing the seventeenth-century plain windows with stained glass, dividing the reredos into three pieces and placing the two wings on the side walls, dismantling the woodwork to build new pews, laying down polychrome tiles on the floor, and moving the organ into the aisle.

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