1845 in architecture

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The year 1845 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

• Two influential clergy houses for the Church of England are designed: the Rectory at Rampisham, Dorset, designed by Augustus Pugin (along with restoration of the church; completed 1847) and the Vicarage at Coalpit Heath in south Gloucestershire, designed by William Butterfield^[1] (along with his first new Anglican church, St Saviour's, consecrated October 9).
• Robert William Billings begins publication of The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland.

Buildings and structures

See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1845

Buildings completed

Government House, Sydney

• Trafalgar Square in London, designed by Charles Barry and John Nash is completed.
• Government House, Sydney in Australia, designed by Edward Blore, is completed and first occupied.
• Tolbooth Kirk, Edinburgh, designed by James Gillespie Graham and Augustus Pugin, is completed as a church and General Assembly hall (Victoria Hall) for the Church of Scotland.
• New St Mary and St Nicholas parish church in Wilton, Wiltshire, England, designed by Thomas Henry Wyatt and David Brandon, is completed at about this date.
• Praha Masarykovo nádraží, the first railway station in Prague, designed by Antonín Jüngling, is completed.
• Cambridge railway station in England is opened.
• Oundle and Wansford railway stations on Northampton and Peterborough Railway in England, designed by John William Livock, opened.

Awards

• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Félix Thomas.

Births

Christian Frederik Hansen

• August 17 – Gyula Pártos, Hungarian architect (died 1916)^[2]
• October 9 – Ferdinand Arnodin, French bridge engineer (died 1924)
• December 12 – Bruce Price, American architect (died 1903)

Deaths

• July 10 – Christian Frederik Hansen, Danish architect ("Denmark’s Palladio")^[3] (born 1756)
• July 12 – Friedrich Ludwig Persius, Prussian architect (born 1803)
• Fryderyk Bauman, Polish architect, sculptor and decorator (born 1765/70)

References

1. Tiller, Kate (2016). Parsonages. Oxford: Shire. ISBN 978-1-78442-137-3.
2. "Pártos Gyula". Hungarian Electronic Library (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2012-05-13.
3. Palmer, Allison Lee (11 February 2011). "Hansen, Christian Frederik". Historical Dictionary of Neoclassical Art and Architecture. p. 109. ISBN 9780810874749.