Category Archives: Pers_Wren, Christopher

Above: St Paul’s Cathedral seen through the glass wall of Blackfriars Station.. The first of the two ‘landscape’ stamps in this article celebrates not a spire of a Wren church but the magnificent dome of Wren’s greatest masterpiece — St … Continue reading →

Above: The top of the tower of St James, Garlickhithe, peeping out behind the Victorian Brooke’s Wharf. If you think that all of Wren’s spires and towers stand out clearly in the City, this ‘email stamp’ will put another slant … Continue reading →

Above: An ‘email stamp’ showing the towers of St Mary Somerset (foreground) and St Mary Aldermary. This stamp presents another ‘cluster’ — with two fine Wren stone towers and the rather intrusive building works on a tall office block in … Continue reading →

Above: The towers of St Nicholas Cole Abbey, (foreground) and St Mary le Bow with the modern office block called Broadgate Tower in the background. In the foreground, on this ‘email stamp’, is the ornate spire of St Nicholas Cole … Continue reading →

Above: An ‘email stamp’ showing the church towers of St Benet, Paul’s Wharf, (foreground) and St Augustine, Watling Street, with the modern tower block called City Point in the background. The old days of writing a letter, finding an envelope … Continue reading →