Wren Library
Wren-designed college library of limewood carvings, marble busts and treasures from Newton to Milton.
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This guide to the Wren Library at Trinity College, Cambridge, follows one marble figure and the long argument over where it was allowed to stand. It begins with Lord Byron's death in Greece in eighteen twenty-four and his friends' plans for Poets' Corner, and brings in John Cam Hobhouse, the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen and a cautious college Master. Along the way you'll meet Christopher Wren's room, its marble busts and the window showing Isaac Newton before King George the Third.
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