Sir Christopher Wren's original model for St Paul's cathedral, London Size:XS: 30 x 20cm 11th October 1967

11th October 1967

including written o-fuda

with figures passing by

Ceremony in Westminster Hall

'A Red Study'

Sir Christopher Wren's original model for St Paul's cathedral, London Size:XS: 30 x 20cm 11th October 1967Sir Christopher Wren's original model for St Paul's cathedral, London, c1670 1672 (1893). Wren was commissioned to design the replacement for the cathedral destroyed in the Great Fire of London. Construction began in 1677 and was completed on Wren's 76th birthday, 20th October 1708. An illustration from A Short History of the English People, by J R Green, illustrated edition, Volume III, Macmillan and Co, London, New York, 1893.