FAMOUS ARCHITECT.
-WREN'S 81-CENTENARY. LONDON, February 26. London i* celebrating a "Wren Week" in connection with the bi-centenary of the death of Sir Christopher Wren, the architect of St. Paul's Cathedral. The arrangements include a service at St. Paul's, which delegations representing British, American, and Dominion architects will attend. Dean Inge will preach the memorial sermon. Sir Ashtou Webb and other prominent architects will deliver addresses at the Institute of Britishm architects and elsewhere on Wren's work. Visits to city churches, Oxford, Cambridge, and Hampton Court, where Wren died, are also being organised.
The authorities of St. Paul's are mak ing a great effort to raise funds to arrest the decay of the fabric of what Canon Alexander on Sunday called "the parish church of the British Empire."—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 49, 27 February 1923, Page 5
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