St Mary Le Bow
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 | St. Mary Le Bow |
| Designer | Sir Christopher Wren |
| Location | London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom |
| Date | 1670 to 1683 |
| Building Type | church |
| Climate | temperate |
| Context | urban |
| Architectural Style | English Renaissance |
| Street Address | |
| Notes | Notable steeple. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/St_Mary_Le_Bow.html |
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This is one of the fifty-one city churches that Sir Christopher Wren replaced following the Great Fire of London in 1666. For the sake of economy, he in some cases made use of old foundations, "ingeniously adapting the elevations to create interesting and varied effects."
— Deborah Fritz from Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture. p1034.
"At S. Mary-le-Bow..., Wren created his first great Classical steeple. As with earlier Gothic examples, this was an adjunct to the main body of the church and housed a French-inspired portal in a concave niche. The belfry, adorned with pilasters, supports a circular columnar tempietto. A second smaller tempietto is reached by flying buttresses and the whole is crowned by an obelisk."
— Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture. p1034.
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Roger H. Clark and Michael Pause. Precedents in Architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985. ISBN 0-442-21668-8. LC 84-3543. NA2750.C55 1984. plan to section diagram, p160.— Updated edition available at Amazon.com
Howard Davis. Slide from photographer's collection. PCD .1536.
Sir Banister Fletcher. Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture. 18th ed., revised by J.C. Palmes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. ISBN 684-14207-4. NA200.F63. drawings, p1026. photo, p1020.— The classic text of architectural history. Expanded 1996 edition available at Amazon.com
Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture. Boston: Butterworths, 1987. ISBN 0-408-01587-X. NA200.F63 1987. discussion p1034.
Yetsuh Frank, University of Oregon. Slide from photographer's collection, October 1993. PCD.2287.1022.1938.020.
Russell Sturgis. The Architecture Sourcebook. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1984. ISBN 0-442-20831-9. LC 84-7275. NA2840.S78. perspective drawing, p399. [JE]
John Summerson. Architecture in Britain 1530-1830. London: Penguin Books, 1991. interior photo of altar area. plate 158, p193.
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