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SIR CHRISTOPHER (1632 ~1723), Eng. architect; was devoted as an Oxford student to mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, and anatomy. Architecture came, however, to engage his chief interest, and he had his great opportunity when London was laid in ruins by the fire of 1666. He was the architect of the new St. Paul’s Cathedral, and of some 50 other churches to replace those destroyed. Many other | notable structures, including Temple Bar, were of his design