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List of octagonal buildings and structures

List of octagonal buildings and structures

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Octagon buildings and structures are characterized by an octagonal plan form, whether a perfect geometric octagon or a regular eight-sided polygon with approximately equal sides.

Plan of the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem
The Tower of the Winds in Athens

The oldest known octagon-shaped building[citation needed] is the Tower of the Winds in Athens, Greece, which was constructed circa 300 B.C. Octagon houses were popularized in the United States in the mid-19th century and there are too many to list here, see instead List of octagon houses. There are also octagonal houses built in other times and cultures.

Below is a list of octagonal buildings and structures worldwide, excluding houses and windmills.

Australia

Canada

Huron Historic Gaol

At least 19 historic octagon houses are known to exist in Canada distributed across 4 eastern provinces.[1] For a list of these houses, See: List of octagon houses. In Canada, the octagon house craze also engendered an octagonal deadhouse phenomenon. This included octagonal deadhouses, pre-burial edifices, built in the mid to late 1800s along Yonge Street in south-central Ontario, from just north of Toronto to Aurora.

China

Egypt

Ethiopia

Germany

Ceiling of the Palatine Chapel in Aachen

Greece

Hungary

India

Iran

Palestine

Italy

Japan

New Zealand

  • The Octagon, the former Trinity Congregational Church in Christchurch, New Zealand

Norway

Dverberg Church with memorial for fishermen who lost their lives at sea
Main article: Octagonal churches in Norway

Portugal

  • Convent of Christ (Tomar, Portugal), 12th-15th Century. The adjacent chapel is only one of two octagonal chapels in the world. The other is in Jerusalem.
  • Charola, Portuguese Info on the Chapel of the Convent of Christ.

Singapore

Spain

View of the Octagonal Tower at the Alcazar in Jerez

Sri Lanka

Sweden

United Kingdom

Wells Cathedral plan, showing the octagonal chapter house (top)

United States

Main article: List of octagonal buildings and structures in the United States

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Kline, Robert V. "Inventory of Older Octagon, Hexagon, and Round Houses". rvkline. Retrieved November 2, 2010.
  2. [2]
    Ousby, Ian, Blue Guide: England, 11th ed. 1995, various pages, London: A & C Black ISBN 0-7136-3874-5; New York: WW Norton ISBN 0-393-31340-9
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