Main entry:

Wren, Christopher, Sir, 1632-1723.

Title & Author:

'Tom tower' Christ church, Oxford. Some letters of Sr Christopher Wren to John Fell, bishop of Oxford, hitherto unpublished, now set forth and annotated by W. Douglas Caröe. With a chapter by H.H. Turner, and another, by Arthur Cochrane.

Publication:

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1923.

Description:

xii, 127 pages, 27 leaves of plates (1 folded) illustrations 29 cm

Notes:
"[Published] on the date of Wren's bicentenary, February 25, 1923."
Contains chapters on Christopher Kempster, builder.
Introduction -- Sir Christopher Wren's letters to John Lord Bishop of Oxford -- Analysis of the letters -- Comments on letter no. VI, on the possibility of adapting the tower as an observatory / by the Savilian Professor of Astronomy -- Wren and Greenwich Observatory -- The building contract -- Great Tom -- Critical notes on design -- The heraldry of the vault / by Chester Herald -- Christopher Kempster, builder -- Kempster's day book.

Subject:

Wren, Christopher, Sir, 1632-1723.
Kempster, Christopher, 1626 or 1627-1715.
Fell, John, 1625-1686.
Oxford (England). University. Christ church. Tom Tower.

Form/genre:

Correspondence.
Contract documents.

Added entries:

Caröe, William Douglas, 1857-1938, editor.
Turner, H. H. (Herbert Hall), 1861-1930.
Cochrane, Arthur William Steuart, 1872-

Wren & Tom tower

Holdings:

Location: Library main 154258
Call No.: NA44.W945.25 T6 1923
Copy: copy 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main 154257
Call No.: NA44.W945.25 T6 1923
Copy: copy 2
Status: Available