1715 in architecture
Overview of the events of 1715 in architecture
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The year 1715 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
- The Clarendon Building at the University of Oxford, England, designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, is completed.[1]
- Chapel and Hall, The Queen's College, Oxford, England, designed by George Clarke after Hawksmoor, structurally completed.[2]
- St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham, England, designed by Thomas Archer is consecrated as a parish church.
- Many batteries and redoubts are built in Malta. Surviving examples include Saint Mary's Battery, Qolla l-Bajda Battery, Briconet Redoubt and Vendôme Tower.
- Filippo Juvarra starts working on the previously postponed construction of the church of Santa Christina in Turin.
- Filippo Juvarra starts rebuilding the church of San Filippo Neri, Turin in which the roof had collapsed during the siege of Turin during the War of the Spanish Succession.
- Fountain of the Tritons in Rome completed by Carlo Francesco Bizzaccheri.
- Clarence House, 22 Watling Street, Thaxted, England, is completed.
Events
- Colen Campbell publishes the first volume of Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British Architect.
Births
Deaths
References
- ^ Coulson, Jonathan; Roberts, Paul; Taylor, Isabelle (2015). University Planning and Architecture: The search for perfection. Routledge. p. 55. ISBN 9781317613169.
- ^ Bradley, Simon; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2023). Oxfordshire: Oxford and the south east. The Buildings of England. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 241–5. ISBN 978-0-300-20929-7.
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