1840 in architecture
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The year 1840 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
- 27 April â The foundation stone of the new Palace of Westminster in London is laid as its reconstruction to a design by Charles Barry following a fire in 1834 begins (completed in 1860).[1]
- 30 September â Foundation of Nelson's Column, designed by William Railton, laid in London,[2] Trafalgar Square being laid out and paved around it during the year.[3]
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
- 11 May â Wingfield railway station in England, designed by Francis Thompson, is opened.[4]
- 31 August â Bristol Temple Meads railway station in England, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, is opened.
- July Column, Place de la Bastille, Paris, designed by Jean-Antoine Alavoine and Joseph-Louis Duc, erected, incorporating Auguste Dumont's Génie de la Liberté and bas-reliefs by Antoine-Louis Barye and others.
- Khaplu Palace built.
- Old Patent Office Building, Washington D.C., United States completed by Robert Mills.
- Forglen House, Scotland, designed by John Smith, is completed at about this date.[5]
Awards
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Théodore Ballu.
Births
- January 11 â Robert Chisholm, English-born architect working in British India; proponent of the Indo-Saracenic style (died 1915)
- J. M. Brydon, Scottish-born architect working in London (died 1901)
Deaths
- February 18 â Sir Jeffry Wyatville, English architect and garden designer (born 1766)
- May 4 â Carl Ludvig Engel, German Empire style architect (born 1778)