The Chelsea Pensioner Review: A Pint for the Scarlet-Coated Veterans | A pub named for the scarlet-coated old soldiers of Wren’s Royal Hospital Chelsea, founded by Charles II for men broken by age and war
The Monument Review: The City Pub by Wren’s Great Fire Column | A characterful, hugely popular pub on Fish Street Hill in the City of London, by the great Monument to the Great Fire of London, with good beer, good cheer and a warm welcome
The Ye Olde Watling Review: The Wren-Built City Pub Where St Paul’s Was Drawn | A magnificent, historic timber pub on Watling Street in the City of London, built by Sir Christopher Wren in 1668 to house the workers building St Paul’s, with good cask ale and a warm welcome
The Wren Tavern Review: The St Paul’s Pub Named for a Great Architect | A superb, welcoming pub by St Paul’s Cathedral in the City of London named for Sir Christopher Wren, the great architect of St Paul’s, with good beer, good cheer and a warm welcome
St Paul’s Whispering Gallery Confirmed Faster Than Office Gossip | Wren’s dome carries a whisper 30 metres, beating most workplace rumour networks
Monument To Great Fire Confirmed To Point Directly At Bakery | 311-step Wren column marks exact distance to where 1666 blaze actually began
The Monument Review: The Column Is a Scientific Instrument | Wren and Hooke built it hollow, with a laboratory in the basement, so they could use it as a telescope and a pendulum
Monument Certificate Confirmed London’s Cheapest Available Diploma | 311-step climb rewards visitors with printed proof for the price of admission
Phoenix Review: The City Put It on the Sign After the Fire | Wren carved a phoenix over the south door of St Paul’s with one word under it – RESURGAM, I shall rise again
Wren Tavern Review: His Epitaph Is the Best in England | Reader, if you seek his monument, look around you. It is carved in the cathedral he built, and his son wrote it.
Ye Olde Watling Review: Wren’s Workmen Drank Here | Rebuilt in 1668 out of ships’ timbers, and used as a drawing office and a canteen for the men putting up St Paul’s
Madison Review: You Are Looking at the Dome, and the Dome Is Fake | St Paul’s has three domes. The one you see from outside is not the one you see from inside, and neither is holding anything up.
