best carver in british history

St. Paul's Choir, London

- Grinling Gibbons [1648-1721] was discovered as a chippy [carver] in the dockyard of Deptford by Sir Christopher Wren’s friend John Evelyn [1620-1706].

An earlier reference to Wren here.

britain's great architects

St. Paul's Cathedral designed by Sir Christopher Wren [1632-1723] as viewed from in front of the Tate Modern underneath the south end of The Millennium Bridge designed by Sir Norman Foster [born 1935].