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Wrenaissance Archit.|rɛˈneɪsəns, -ɑ̃ːs|
[f. the name of Sir Christopher Wren (see Wrenean a.) after Renaissance.]
An architectural style modelled on or influenced by that of Wren, esp. as represented by some of the work of Sir Edwin Lutyens.
1942R. Lutyens Sir Edwin Lutyens iii. 40 Gothic and Renaissance (‘Wrenaissance’! as father has punned..) are both architectures of meaning. 1944Archit. Rev. XCV. p. xlvi/1 We cannot..allow ourselves, out of affection for a great man [sc. Lutyens] and out of admiration for his highly personal style, to be saddled with a Wrenaissance London as a monument to a period which the first world war brought to a murderous close. 1967Time (Atlantic ed.) 26 May 45/1 Frederick Gibberd{ddd}extended a piazza to roof over an English Wrenaissance crypt built in the 1930s. 1980M. Lutyens Edwin Lutyens iv. 62 In 1906, with the building of Heathcote at Ilkley, Yorkshire, for Mr Ernest Hemingway..he reached what he called his ‘Wrenaissance’; Wren thereafter became his lodestar. 1981Times 12 Feb. 17/4 That heavy, florid..brick and stone style christened ‘Wrenaissance’. |