Wren, Sir Christopher, (1632-1723), Knight, architect, astronomer, mathematician and MP

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Surname:	Wren
Pretitle:	Sir
Forenames:	Christopher
Gender:	Male
Date:	1632-1723
Title:	Knight
Biography:	ODNB link for Wren, Sir Christopher (1632-1723), knight, architect, astronomer, mathematician and MP
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P127410 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P31272 )
Online related resources	Artists' Paper Register link for Sir Christopher Wren	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Sir Christopher Wren

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	drawings and papers	Oxford University: All Souls College		See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
2	1663-1723: accounts, papers and drawings	The London Archives: City of London	CLC/313	See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
3	c1669-88: accounts and papers	Royal Institute of British Architects	WRE	NRA 34272 Wren
4	papers	Royal Institute of British Architects	DRawings Collection	See Cumulative Index to the Catalogue of the Drawings Collection (1989)
5	1675: report on design for the Monument	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 18898
6	1682-83: accounts as surveyor of the King's Works	Unknown location	DDFJ10/19/2	NRA 20442 Foljambe See Offered for sale, Christies 30 April 2008, lot 173
7	1696: proposal for the recoinage	London University: Senate House Library	MS 62
8	reports on churches in Cripplegate and Lower Wapping	Lambeth Palace Library	MS 2714	NRA 23878 Fifty New Churches
9	manuscripts	Middle Temple Library		See ASLIB Directory of Literary and Historical Collections 1993
10	papers	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Sloane MS 3323
11	papers	Royal Society	MS 249
12	c1643: annotated copy of Browne's Religio Medici	Cardiff Central Library	Cardiff MS 1.160	NRA 42735 Cardiff Library
13	1718: papers rel to Hungerford Market	Warwickshire County Record Office	p22	NRA 14000 Landor
14	plan of Chuch of St James, Piccadilly and drawing of church, probably St Magnus the Martyr	Royal Institute of British Architects		See Annual Return 1994
15	plan of proposal to rebuild London after Great Fire, with sketches of Royal Hospital and Greenwich	Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre	2057	NRA 22080 Herbert
16	1674: letters rel to building of Arbury stables	Warwickshire County Record Office	CR 136/B/2293-2410A	NRA 26325 Newdegate
17	1683-1723: building of Dr Busby’s house, acquittances for his salary, fabric books for repairs of the Abbey and building of the School dormitory	Westminster Abbey Library and Muniment Room	WAM series