Article: Why Wren wept over St Paul's. (book review)

Byline: HUGH MASSINGBERD

His Invention So Fertile by Adrian Tinniswood Jonathan Cape [pound]25 ([pound]22.50 - 0870 165 0870) **** (RECOMMENDED)

Discover St Paul's - a spectacular family adventure,' urge the latest tourist posters, as if Sir Christopher Wren's masterpiece, the first English cathedral to have been built by a single architect, were a theme park. Adrian Tinniswood's fresh, lively and readable biography of our best-known architect certainly takes the reader on an entertaining ride of discovery through the 17th and early 18th Centuries.

The book's title is apt, for the diminutive, pragmatic and practical 'Kit' Wren (1632-1723) was ...

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