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The dining room in Wren’s own house, which he remodeled 
in his own manner from an old Tudor mansion which was 
given him in lieu of a pension 
Sir Christopher Wren, Architect 
(Continued from page Ij2 ) 
discusses the building as a whole—its 
proportions, its scale, its mass; one 
does not dwell on the stones of which 
it is composed, nor on the religious 
views of the craftsmen who carved the 
stones. Detail is important in archi¬ 
tecture—in what art or business is it 
not? But its im¬ 
portance is subsid¬ 
iary. The whole is 
more important 
than its parts. All 
this seems so ex¬ 
tremely obvious 
that one wonders 
how our grand¬ 
fathers managed to 
believe the con¬ 
trary. 
Wren was a true 
architect; he inter¬ 
ested himself pri¬ 
marily in the whole 
design, not in the 
details and the component parts. He 
conceived his buildings as complete 
three-dimensional designs which should 
be seen as harmoniously proportioned 
wholes from every point of view. And 
he possessed in the highest degree that 
instinctive sense of proportion and scale 
which enabled him 
to embody his con¬ 
ceptions in bricks 
and stones. What is 
it that makes St. 
Paul’s, in London, 
the most beautiful 
church built in 
Europe since the 
Renaissance? It is 
the architect’s fault¬ 
less sense of pro¬ 
portion ; every part 
of the building, seen 
from within o r 
from without, seems 
to stand in a certain 
.4 miracle of 
delicate orna¬ 
ment created by 
Wren from rub¬ 
bed brick, in the 
doorway of the 
Temple Church, 
at Eton College 
Later detail of 
heavy pseudo¬ 
classic manner 
does not destroy 
the gracious pro¬ 
portions of the 
old bow window 
done by Wren 
