1715 in architecture explained

The year 1715 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• The Clarendon Building at the University of Oxford, England, designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, is completed.^[1]
• Chapel and Hall, The Queen's College, Oxford, England, designed by George Clarke after Hawksmoor, structurally completed.^[2]
• St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham, England, designed by Thomas Archer is consecrated as a parish church.
• Many batteries and redoubts are built in Malta. Surviving examples include Saint Mary's Battery, Qolla l-Bajda Battery, Briconet Redoubt and Vendôme Tower.
• Filippo Juvarra starts working on the previously postponed construction of the church of Santa Christina in Turin.
• Filippo Juvarra starts rebuilding the church of San Filippo Neri, Turin in which the roof had collapsed during the siege of Turin during the War of the Spanish Succession.
• Fountain of the Tritons in Rome completed by Carlo Francesco Bizzaccheri.
• Clarence House, 22 Watling Street, Thaxted, England, is completed.

Events

• Colen Campbell publishes the first volume of Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British Architect.

Notes and References

1. Book: Coulson . Jonathan . Roberts . Paul . Taylor . Isabelle . University Planning and Architecture: The search for perfection . 2015 . Routledge . 9781317613169 . 55 . en.
2. Book: Simon. Bradley. Nikolaus. Pevsner. Nikolaus Pevsner. Oxfordshire: Oxford and the south east. New Haven. Yale University Press. The Buildings of England. 978-0-300-20929-7. 2023. 241-5.