1840 in architecture

• 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). • 30 September – Foundation of Nelson's Column, designed by William Railton, laid in London, Trafalgar Square being laid out and paved around it during the year. ==Buildings and structures==

Buildings opened '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. • 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. ==Awards==

• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Théodore Ballu. ==Births==

• 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==