Wadham College, Oxford, where Christopher Wren became a student in 1649. He went on to become a fellow of All Souls in 1653, Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College, London from 1657-61 and Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford in 1661.
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Following the Restoration Wren was frequently consulted on architectural matters by King Charles II, this led to him being commissioned for a number of new projects, one of the first was the Chapel of Pembroke College, Cambridge, built between 1663-65.
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The Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, 1664-69.
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Within days of the Great Fire of London Wren approached the King with grand plans for the rebuilding of London, time and finance prevented implementation, but he was responsible for the design of the Monument close to where the fire began in Pudding Lane. 1671-79.
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Wren was also the natural choice as architect for rebuilding St Paul's Cathedral. The original plan was rejected by the clergy in favour of a more traditional design and work began in 1675. However Wren was given a fair amount of freedom during construction and when building was completed in 1710 many of his original ideas, including the dome, had been reincorporated.
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Though Wren's plans for the rebuilding of London following the fire had to be discarded, he was given the responsibility of replacing the churches destroyed as a result of the fire. With his assistants, Robert Hooke and Edward Woodroffe, 52 new churches were built between 1672 and 1686.

Temple Bar, originally at the point the Strand becomes Fleet Street. Built in 1672, it featured statues of King Charles I and II and was used to display the heads of traitors, the last being Francis Towneley in 1746. It was demolished and re-erected in 1878 by Sir Henry Bruce Meux as a gateway to his estate at Theobald's Park, Hertfordshire. There is a plan underway to restore it and move it to Paternoster Square in the shadow of St Paul's.
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St Brides, the journalists church, restored after the war with the help of the Fleet Street newspapers.
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St Benet, the Welsh Church, in Blackfriars photographed in about 1970 during construction of the Blackfriars underpass. The church is now obscured from the river by new buildings.
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Christ Church, Newgate, destroyed during the blitz and preserved as a public garden.
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St James Garlickhythe, built between 1676-83, Wren added its spire later, between 1714-17.
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St Stephen, Walbrook. The interior was a testing ground for some of the ideas used in St Paul's, including a large central dome. The Samaritans were founded in the crypt.
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St Dunstans in the East, gutted during the blitz and now a public garden.
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Flamsteed House, Royal Observatory, Greenwich. Begun in 1675, the year Charles II founded the Royal Observatory.
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Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1676-84.
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Royal Hospital, Chelsea, 1682-92.
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Wren was appointed surveyor to the Greenwich Hospital in 1696 and directed the building, but shared architectural duties with, among others, Nicholas Hawksmoor and Sir John Vanbrugh.
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Christopher Wren died on 25 February 1723 aged 90. His tomb in St Paul's bears the legend Lector, si monumentum requiris, circumspice Reader, if you seek his monument, look around you.
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