1680s in architecture
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Buildings and structures
- 1680
- St Clement Danes, London, designed by Christopher Wren, is completed.
- Church of San Lorenzo, Turin, designed by Guarino Guarini, is substantially completed.
- Star Building at Windsor Castle and Cassiobury House in England, designed by Hugh May, are completed; and his work on St George's Hall, Windsor Castle, is beginning.
- 1681
- Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute in Venice, designed by Baldassare Longhena in 1631, is dedicated.
- Sobieski Royal Chapel in GdaÅsk, designed by Tylman van Gameren, is completed.
- Old Ship Church Puritan meeting house in Hingham, Massachusetts, which will become the oldest church building in continuous ecclesiastical use in the United States, is erected.
- Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar in Zaragoza, Aragon, is begun to the design of Francisco Herrera the Younger (completed 1754).
- 1682
- Abingdon County Hall in Oxfordshire, England, designed by Christopher Kempster, is completed.
- Tom Tower at Christ Church, Oxford, England, designed by Christopher Wren, is completed.
- College of Matrons in Salisbury, England, probably designed by Christopher Wren, is built.
- Khan al-Wazir in Aleppo is completed.
- 1683
- The Old Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, probably designed by the mason Thomas Wood, is opened, the first purpose-built university museum (the modern day Museum of the History of Science).[1]
- Ramsbury Manor in Wiltshire, England, designed by Robert Hooke, is completed (his Ragley Hall in Warwickshire is nearing completion at this time).
- Château de Dampierre in France, designed by Jules Hardouin Mansart, is completed.
- Ãglise Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin (Paris), designed by Pierre Bullet, is consecrated.
- 1684
- The Royal Hospital Kilmainham in Dublin, Ireland, designed by William Robinson, is completed as a home for retired soldiers.
- The Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles in France, designed by Jules Hardouin Mansart, is completed.
- The Château de Marly in the Marly-le-Roi commune is completed for Louis XIV.
- The Canal de l'Eure with its notable aqueduct, designed by the military engineer Lieutenant Général Vauban to serve Versailles for Louis XIV, is begun; work is abandoned about 1690.
- Middle Temple gateway, Fleet Street, London, designed by Roger North, is completed.
- The original Kaohsiung Confucius Temple is built.
- 1685
- Ishak Pasha Palace in eastern Anatolia is begun.
- 1686
- The Het Loo Palace at Apeldoorn in the Netherlands, designed by Jacob Roman and Johan van Swieten and begun in 1684, is completed; the garden is designed by Claude Desgotz.
- Kinross House in Scotland, designed by Sir William Bruce for himself, is begun.
- 1687
- Neanderkirche in Düsseldorf (begun 1683) is completed.
- The rebuilding of Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, England, begins under William Talman.
- The Parthenon in Athens is extensively damaged in the Morean War.
- 1688
- Belton House in Lincolnshire, England, perhaps designed by William Winde, is completed.
- Friends meeting house at Jordans, Buckinghamshire, England.
- 1689
- Windsor Guildhall in Berkshire, England, designed by Sir Thomas Fitz (or Fiddes), is completed by Christopher Wren.[2]
- Swallowfield Park, near Reading, Berkshire, England, is designed by William Talman.
- BieliÅski Palace in Otwock Wielki, Poland, designed by Tylman van Gameren, is completed.
- Lubomirski bathing pavilion at Åazienki Palace, Warsaw, Poland, designed by Tylman van Gameren, is completed.
Events
- 1682: October 27 â The city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded by William Penn, laid out on a grid pattern.
- 1689: May â William Talman appointed Comptroller of the King's Works in England.
Births
- 1682
- William Benson, English amateur architect and politician (died 1754)
- December 23 â James Gibbs, Scottish-born architect (died 1754)
- 1683 â Thomas Ripley, English architect (died 1758)
- c. 1685 â William Kent, English architect and designer (died 1745)
- 1686
- September 29 â Cosmas Damian Asam, German Baroque architect and painter (died 1739)
- Giacomo Leoni, Venetian-born architect (died 1746)
- 1687: January 27? â Balthasar Neumann, German architect (died 1753)
- 1689: October â William Adam, Scottish architect (died 1748)
Deaths
- 1680
- November 28
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor and architect (born 1598)
- Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter (born 1606)[3]
- November 28
- 1682: February 18 â Baldassare Longhena, Venetian Baroque architect (born 1598)
- 1684
- February 20 â Roger Pratt, English gentleman architect (born 1620)
- February 21 â Hugh May, English architect (born 1620)
- 1688: October 9 â Claude Perrault, French architect (born 1613)