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Christopher Wren
Sir Christopher Wren, detail of an oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1711; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Christopher Wren died on February 25, 1723, in London. He was found dead in his chair at his home on St. James’s Street and was subsequently buried with ceremony in St. Paul’s Cathedral, where his tomb is marked by a simple black marble slab.12