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1845 in architecture
Overview of the events of 1845 in architecture
The year 1845 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
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- 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 completed
- 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.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Félix Thomas.
- 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)
- 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)
- Tiller, Kate (2016). Parsonages. Oxford: Shire. ISBN 978-1-78442-137-3.
- "Pártos Gyula". Hungarian Electronic Library (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2012-05-13.
- Palmer, Allison Lee (11 February 2011). "Hansen, Christian Frederik". Historical Dictionary of Neoclassical Art and Architecture. p. 109. ISBN 9780810874749.