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Rebuilding of London After the Great Fire

Also Known As The Great Rebuilding
Urban Rebuilding

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The Great Fire of September 1666 destroyed most of the City of London, including the medieval St. Paul's and more than eighty parish churches. The rebuilding that followed, under building regulations requiring brick and stone and with Christopher Wren designing the new cathedral and dozens of churches, was the largest planned reconstruction European architecture had yet seen.

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1666 1
The year of the fire; the rebuilding ran for decades, with St. Paul's completed in 1710.
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London, England 1
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Architect of the new St. Paul's and dozens of the rebuilt churches.

Christopher Wren designed the new St Paul's Cathedral and dozens of parish churches in the rebuilding that followed the Great Fire.

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1. Encyclopedia Britannica
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Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Christopher Wren, Christopher Wren, Rebuilding of LondonView the Source
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