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Half-section into four parts, each 20 ft wide. He thought that such a curve derived from the equation y = x 3. Three-dimensional equivalent of the ‘hanging chain’, or catenary arch: the shape of a weighted chain which, when inverted, produces the ideal The two half-sections in the study employ a formulaĭevised by Robert Hooke in about 1671 for calculating the curve of a parabolic dome and reducing its thickness. Rubble cores were beginning to settle and cause splitting in the external stone cladding. He was concerned to relieve pressure on the pier masses in the crypt, where, from about 1689, the internal In a pen-and-ink study, now at the British Museum, Wren transformed the section of his dome to lessen its weight ( fig. That Wren aspired towards but had yet to discover the structural means to achieve. Single shell and changes the design again – on the right – by setting a much larger lantern over a hemispherical dome. Amongst the earliest of these is a composite drawing of c.1690, mostly in Hawksmoor’s hand Scheme of the ‘Revised design’ see WRE/5/1. To this earlier period, c.1690–91, can be assigned a group of small-scale studies which explore alternatives to the 16-bay Three years earlier Strong’s men made models of a ‘quarter’ of the dome (January to February 1691) and a ‘part of a Modell in small stones for part Model altered in late 1695 was probably the ‘large Modell of 1/8 of the Great Dome’ built by Strong’s men in June 1694. These revisions would have included the sloping of the inner wall, a crucial modification which allowed Wren to reduce its thickness. A payment in Decemberġ695 to Edward Strong’s masons to ‘Alter and Add to the Modell of the Legg of the Dome’ suggests final revisions to the lower part of the dome.
Have decided on the widths and positions of the inner and outer walls of the drum and the structures that rise from them. How did Wren arrive at his remarkable final scheme? Construction began at the base of drum of the dome in January 1696. Of the crossing arches and help contain the overall load of the dome within the piers masses of the crypt. They direct its weight of the lantern towards the fronts Support the tall stone lantern which appears to rest on the hemisphere of the outer dome. The canted inner drum and cone combine to The outer dome is lead-clad timber and the inner wall of the drum is sloped toĬarry a hidden brick cone just 1 ft 6 inches thick, its base reinforced with a wrought-iron chain. Rises from a drum only 140 ft wide externally ( figs 3, 4 ). By comparison the dome completed in 1708 is far lighter in construction and
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Produced soon after, show a dome and lantern entirely in masonry, and a lower drum that spans nearly the full 160-ft width of the crossing square Engravings of the Invalides church issued in 1687 revealed a timber-frame outer dome and lantern Wren's earliest engraved designs, Richly modelled dome, inspired by those of Michelangelo’s St Peter’s in Rome (1547–90) and Jules Hardouin-Mansart’s Invalides church in Paris
Wren’s revisions to the design in 1685–86 created a podium for a vast, Churchyard and paving, c.1690–1713 miscellaneous drawings The Choir and Morning Prayer Chapel, 1693–97ħ. Upper elevations and west end from c.1685Ĥ.