1845 in architecture explained

The year 1845 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

• Two influential clergy houses for the Church of England are designed: the Rectory at Rampisham, Dorset, designed by Augustus Pugin (along with restoration of the church; completed 1847) and the Vicarage at Coalpit Heath in south Gloucestershire, designed by William Butterfield^[1] (along with his first new Anglican church, St Saviour's, consecrated October 9).
• Robert William Billings begins publication of The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland.

Buildings and structures

Buildings completed

• Trafalgar Square in London, designed by Charles Barry and John Nash is completed.
• Government House, Sydney in Australia, designed by Edward Blore, is completed and first occupied.
• Tolbooth Kirk, Edinburgh, designed by James Gillespie Graham and Augustus Pugin, is completed as a church and General Assembly hall (Victoria Hall) for the Church of Scotland.
• New St Mary and St Nicholas parish church in Wilton, Wiltshire, England, designed by Thomas Henry Wyatt and David Brandon, is completed at about this date.
• Praha Masarykovo nádraží, the first railway station in Prague, designed by Antonín Jüngling, is completed.
• Cambridge railway station in England is opened.
• Oundle and Wansford railway stations on Northampton and Peterborough Railway in England, designed by John William Livock, opened.

Awards

• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Félix Thomas.

Births

• August 17 – Gyula Pártos, Hungarian architect (died 1916)^[2]
• October 9 – Ferdinand Arnodin, French bridge engineer (died 1924)
• December 12 – Bruce Price, American architect (died 1903)

Deaths

• July 10 – Christian Frederik Hansen, Danish architect ("Denmark’s Palladio")^[3] (born 1756)
• July 12 – Friedrich Ludwig Persius, Prussian architect (born 1803)
• Fryderyk Bauman, Polish architect, sculptor and decorator (born 1765/70)

Notes and References

1. Book: Tiller, Kate. Kate Tiller

   . Kate Tiller. Parsonages. Oxford. Shire. 2016. 978-1-78442-137-3.

2. Web site: Pártos Gyula. Hungarian Electronic Library. 2012-05-13. hu.
3. Book: Palmer, Allison Lee. Hansen, Christian Frederik. https://books.google.com/books?id=dUNJlCuRJL8C&q=hansen+danish+palladio&pg=PA109. Historical Dictionary of Neoclassical Art and Architecture. 11 February 2011. 109. 9780810874749.