Some cases of structural faults previously overlooked.

Christopher Wren was conscious of the detail that there were no expenses to replace them with something else and they could merely be restored. Though in some cases structural faults that previously had been ignored or overlooked by the vestries would turn into noticeable in later years. St Christopher-le-Stocks tower, St Mary Woolnoth, St Mary Aldermary, St Sepulchre and St Michael Cornhill towers had been scraped up by their communities before the Commission started its work. Everything was completely rebuilt or at least repaired in the early XVIII century. The risk of such make-do-and-repair approach, and the troubles Christopher Wren faced with lead him to take pleasure in the occasion of treating the whole exterior as single architectural element. More often Chr View the rest of this article