1840 in architecture

none 1840 architecture The year 1840 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events 27 April – 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).https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/church_state/westminster_later/westminster_new_palace_02.shtml Westminster: A New Palace for a New Age Riding Christine 2005-02-07 BBC 2010-11-15 30 September – Foundation of Nelson's Column, designed by William Railton, laid in London,Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 Trafalgar Square being laid out and paved around it during the year.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 263–264 0-7126-5616-2 Buildings and structures Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1840 Buildings opened thumb|I. K. Brunel's train shed at Bristol Temple Meads; engraving by John Cooke Bourne 11 May – Wingfield railway station in England, designed by Francis Thompson, is opened.Gordon Biddle Britain's Historic Railway Buildings: an Oxford Gazetteer of Structures and Sites Oxford University Press 2003 0-19-866247-5 31 August – 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.LB13603 Forglen House A 2019-03-28 Awards Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Théodore Ballu. Births thumb|upright|Jeffry Wyatville January 11 – 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 – Sir Jeffry Wyatville, English architect and garden designer (born 1766) May 4 – Carl Ludvig Engel, German Empire style architect (born 1778) References Architecture Category:Architecture by year Category:19th-century architecture