Comments on: your architects were madmen, your builders sane but drunk

By: Zita

Zita — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:28:54 +0000

Thanks for writing this.

By: petescully

petescully — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:41:38 +0000

Thanks for stopping by! And, nope…
On the right lines though. Greenwich is very much in London: Greater London, as are Soho and Westminster. However the only one of these that’s in the City of London is St.Paul’s. (Also the only one rebuilt as a result of the Great Fire).

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:25:18 +0000

I just came by because Andrea linked you from a post on her blog. Anyway, I’d have to say that three are in London and one is in Greenwich, which is NOT London.

By: petescully

petescully — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:17:29 +0000

Yeah I wish I’d thought of that before choosing the pictures, since Wren did do two of them, but the royal courts of justice are late 19th century, and wren wasn’t really into neo-gothic, so that one’s out. I think my convoluted answer will be closer to your first answer.

By: amillionpieces

amillionpieces — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:56:49 +0000

My guess before that would have been Christopher Wren – but the Courts of Justice are too modern for that, right? Unless he designed St Pauls and the Naval College and the Courts were built much later but to his original plan?

By: petescully

petescully — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:35:47 +0000

Hmmm, not bad, completely wrong but gives me an idea, my still-to-be-concocted convoluted answer may now be along those lines…
(after all, the Great fire never reached Soho, Greenwich or the Strand, stopping just a block away)
cheers!

By: amillionpieces

amillionpieces — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:13:48 +0000

I think Soho Square because the others were all built after the great fire of london but the building in the square survived the fire? (Hey, I’m not a Londoner so don’t hold poor guesses against me!)