1756 in architecture

none 1756 architecture The year 1756 in architecture involved some significant events. Events Greek Revival architecture appears in the window design for Nuneham House in Oxfordshire, England, by Stiff Leadbetter.Giles Worsley Giles Worsley The First Greek Revival Architecture The Burlington Magazine 127 985 April 1985 226–229 John Smeaton produces the first high-quality cement using hydraulic lime since Roman times for construction of the third Eddystone Lighthouse (completed 1759). Buildings and structures Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1756 Buildings right|thumb|Catherine Palace, Tsarskoye Selo, Russia thumb|Trafford Hall Replacement Catherine Palace, Tsarskoye Selo in Russia, designed by Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, is completed. Klov Palace, Kiev in Russia, probably designed by Gottfried Schädel and Pyotr Neyelov, is completed. Replacement Basilica of the Birth of the Virgin Mary, Chełm in Poland, designed by Paweł Fontana, is completed. Reconstruction of Abbot's Palace (Oliwa) in Gdańsk, Poland, is completed. Newbridge, now Old Bridge, Pontypridd in Wales, designed by William Edwards, is completed.Pontypridd Bridge http://en.structurae.de/structures/data/index.cfm?id=s0005448 Structurae 2012-11-19 St Andrew's in the Square, Glasgow, Scotland, designed by Allan Dreghorn, is completed.St Andrews in the Square http://www.gbpt.org/projects/standrews.html https://web.archive.org/web/20030808114952/http://www.gbpt.org/projects/standrews.html dead 2003-08-08 Glasgow Buildings Preservation Trust 2012-11-19 Octagon Chapel, Norwich in England, designed by Thomas Ivory, is completed.1280186 2012-11-19 Original Whitefield's Tabernacle, Tottenham Court Road in London is built. Trafford Hall in England is built. Wrotham Park, Hertfordshire in England, designed by Isaac Ware, is completed. Shaw Mansion (New London, Connecticut) is built. The President's House (Princeton), New Jersey, is built. First Presbyterian Church (Newburyport, Massachusetts) is built. Alloways Creek Friends Meetinghouse, Hancock's Bridge, New Jersey, is built. Saint Gevorg of Mughni Church, Tbilisi in Armenia is completely rebuilt. St John the Evangelist Church, Shobdon, Herefordshire, England, is completely rebuilt with a "Strawberry Hill Gothic" interior.2016-05-06 David Ross Shobdon, St John Church http://www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=3870 Britain Express Elements of the previous building are incorporated in folly arches nearby. Publications Isaac Ware publishes A Complete Body of Architecture in London. Births February 29 – C. F. Hansen, Danish architect (d. 1845) Chrystian Piotr Aigner, Polish architect (d. 1841) Giovanni Antonio Antolini, Italian architect (d. 1841) 1756 or 1758 – Francesco Piranesi, Italian-born architectural engraver and architect (d. 1810) Deaths July 1 – Giambattista Nolli, Italian architect and surveyor (b. 1701) References *