1746 in architecture
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The year 1746 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
- Mansion of Ledreborg on Zealand, designed by Johan Cornelius Krieger, completed.[1]
- Asamkirche, Munich, designed by Egid Quirin Asam and Cosmas Damian Asam, completed.
- Old Trinity Cathedral, Saint Petersburg, Russia, completed.
- St Lawrence's Church, Mereworth, England, consecrated.
- Transfiguration Church, Szentendre, Hungary, completed.
- Rebuilding of main chapel of the Cathedral of Ãvora, Portugal, designed by João Frederico Ludovice, completed.
- Second phase of construction of Poppelsdorf Palace near Bonn completed.
- Foundation stone of new Inveraray Castle in Scotland laid.
Births
- August 3 â James Wyatt, English architect (died 1813)
Deaths
- May 15 â John James, English architect (born c. 1673)
- June 8 â Giacomo Leoni, Venetian-born architect (born 1686)
