MAN WHO BUILT ST. PAUL'S

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 49, 27 February 1923, Page 7

MAN WHO BUILT ST. PAUL'S

IN MEMORY OF CHRISTOPHER WREN

EFFORT TO ARREST DECAY OF FABRIC.

(BKKBD MI3SB ASBOBIASION.-COPJr.laai.)

USSSRALIAN - NSW ZEALAK3 CA2!,t AS3SCIATIISK.) LONDON, 26th February.

Celebrations in connection with the bi-centenary of the death of Sir Christopher Wren include a service in Si. Paul's, which delegations representing British, American, and Dominion architeats will attend.

Dean Inge will preach the memorial sermon.

Sir Acton Webb and other prominent architects will deliver addresses at the Institute of British Architects and elsewhere on Wren's work. Visits to city churches, to Oxford and Cambridge, and to Hampton Court, where Wren died, are being organised. Tho authorities of St. Paul's are making great efforts^ to raise funds to arrest the decay in the fabric of what Canon Alexander on Sunday called "the parish church of the British Empire."