1832 in architecture
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The year 1832 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
- January – Theatre Royal, Wexford, Ireland (demolished 2006)[1]
Buildings completed
- Church of Our Saviour, Qaqortoq, Greenland.
- Cutlers' Hall, Sheffield, England, designed by Samuel Worth and Benjamin Broomhead Taylor.
- Drapers' Hall, Coventry, England, designed by Thomas Rickman.
- Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland, designed by William Henry Playfair.
- Replacement Old City Gaol, Bristol, England, designed by Richard Shackleton Pope.
- Osgoode Hall, Toronto for The Law Society of Upper Canada, designed by John Ewart and W. W. Baldwin.
- Royal City of Dublin Hospital, Ireland, designed by Albert E. Murray.
- Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Gibraltar.
- Hill's Academy, Essex, Connecticut.
- Maderup Mølle, Funen, Denmark (now in The Funen Village)[2]
- Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, Paris.
- The Mount, Sheffield, England (residential terrace), designed by William Flockton.
- Staines Bridge (across the River Thames in England), designed by George Rennie.
- Marlow Bridge (suspension, across the River Thames in England), designed by William Tierney Clark.
- Bridge Real Ferdinando sul Garigliano (suspension, in the Kingdom of Naples), designed by Luigi Giura.
- George IV Bridge in Edinburgh, designed by Thomas Hamilton.
- Church of St Dunstan-in-the-West, Fleet Street, London, completed after the death in July of its designer John Shaw, Sr. by his son, John Shaw, Jr.
- Stirling New Bridge in Scotland, designed by Robert Stevenson, completed.[3]
Awards
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Jean-Arnoud Léveil.
Births
- March 23 – Charles Henry Driver, English architect (died 1900)
- March 29 – William Swinden Barber, English architect (died 1908)
- September 25 – William Le Baron Jenney, American architect (died 1907)
- October 10 – Henry Hunter, English-born architect working in Tasmania (died 1892)
- December 15 – Gustave Eiffel, French civil engineer (died 1923)
- December 22 – Henry Augustus Sims, American architect working in Philadelphia (died 1875)
- date unknown – Frederick Thomas Pilkington, English-born architect working in Scotland (died 1898)
Deaths
- June 4 – William Heste, Russian architect, civil engineer and town planner of Scottish descent[4]
- July 30 – John Shaw, Sr., English architect (born 1776)
- September 22 – William Fowler, English architect and engraver (born 1761)
- November 19 – John Paterson, Scottish architect
- December 19 – Augustus Charles Pugin, French-born English architectural draughtsman (born 1762)
References
- ^ Colfer, Billy, Wexford: A Town and its Landscape (Irish Rural Landscape Series), Cork, Cork University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-1-85918-429-5
- ^ "Maderup Mølle". moellearkivet.dk. Archived from the original on 2011-10-05. Retrieved 2012-04-14.
- ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Stirling, Causewayhead Road, New Bridge (Site no. NS79SE 185)". Retrieved 2025-06-28.
- ^ Anthony Cross, ‘Hastie, William (1754/5–1832)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oct 2009 accessed 28 Nov 2013