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1845 in architecture

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 (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 and structures
Buildings completedTrafalgar 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==
Awards
Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Félix Thomas. ==Births==
Births
August 17Gyula Pártos, Hungarian architect (died 1916) • October 9Ferdinand Arnodin, French bridge engineer (died 1924) • December 12Bruce Price, American architect (died 1903) ==Deaths==
Deaths
July 10Christian Frederik Hansen, Danish architect ("Denmark’s Palladio") (born 1756) • July 12Friedrich Ludwig Persius, Prussian architect (born 1803) • Fryderyk Bauman, Polish architect, sculptor and decorator (born 1765/70) ==References==
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