Newspaper cutting
The Observer
Category
Ephemera
Date
25 Feb 1923
Materials
newspaper
Measurements
610 x 485 mm
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 749807.1
Summary
One of a series of thirty four whole pages or cuttings from newspapers from various positions in Endcliffe Villa, pertaining to London. . Page thirteen and fourteen from The Observer of 25th February, 1923. Page fourteen contains seven photographs of Wren churches in the City of London. An article about Wren begins in the right hand most column on page thirteen and continues under the photographs on page fourteen. 'THE MASTER- BUILDER CHRISTOPHER WREN AND HIS WORK. TO-DAYS BICENTENARY. LONDON AND ITS LOST OPPORTUNITY. THE WONDERS OF ST,PAULS. BY Prof. W. R. Lethaby. (Surveyor of Westminster Abbey) Lead to that younger pile, whose sky-like dome. Hath typified by reach of daring art infinity's embrace. . . . -WoRDSWORTH. Sir Christopher Wren, whose death two hundred years ago is commemorated to-day, was born in 1632 at East Knoyle, Wiltshire. His father, the rector of the village, sent him to school at Westminster, whnce he passed at an early age to Oxford. ...'
Makers and roles
The Observer, printer and publisher