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1711 architecture
The year 1711 in architecture involved some significant events.
Events
Commission for Building Fifty New Churches set up in London under terms of the New Churches in London and Westminster Act 1710 (9 Ann. c. 17). Most of the nineteen churches it eventually builds or rebuilds will be designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, with John James, Thomas Archer and James Gibbs also participating.http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=38870 List of churches built Port, M. H. Institute of Historical Research London 1986 The Commissions for building fifty new churches: The minute books, 1711-27, a calendar 2012-11-14
Buildings and structures
Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1711
New buildings
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Construction begins on Schloss Weißenstein, Bavaria, palatial residence designed for Lothar Franz von Schönborn, Prince-Bishop of Bamberg and Archbishop of Mainz, by Johann Dientzenhofer and Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt.Schiedermair Werner Schloss Weißenstein in Pommersfelden (German) Fink 2011 978-3-89870-145-7 10
Marlborough House in London, designed by Christopher Wren, is completed.Spaltro Kathleen Bridge Noeline Royals of England: A Guide for Readers, Travelers, and Genealogists 2005 iUniverse 9780595373123 235 https://books.google.com/books?id=UUOzgLiyd54C&pg=PA235 en
Menshikov Palace (Saint Petersburg) is opened.Menshikov Palace http://www.visit-petersburg.ru/en/showplace/196852/ 15 January 2018
Pope Clement XI places an Egyptian obelisk in the fountain in front of the Pantheon, Rome.Curl James Stevens The Egyptian Revival: Ancient Egypt as the Inspiration for Design Motifs in the West 2013 Routledge 9781134234684 28 https://books.google.com/books?id=OcU7YPeE5yoC&pg=PA28 en
Births
September 22 – Thomas Wright, English astronomer, mathematician and garden designer (died 1786)30060 Wright, Thomas (1711–1786), astronomer and landscape gardener Knight, David 2004
December 23 – Jacob Fortling, German-born Danish sculptor, architect and industrialist (died 1761)https://gravsted.dk/person.php?navn=jacobfortling Jacob Fortling gravsted.dk da 13 September 2024
unknown date – Eugénio dos Santos, Portuguese architect and military engineer (died 1760)Kenneth Maxwell Pombal, paradox of the Enlightenment Cambridge University Press 1995 9780521450447 24
Deaths
unknown date – Henry Bell, English architect (born 1647)37174 Bell, Henry (bap. 1647, d. 1711), architect and merchant Bold, John
References
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