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Overview of the events of 1756 in architecture
The year 1756 in architecture involved some significant events.
Events
Buildings and structures
Buildings
Catherine Palace ,
Tsarskoye Selo , Russia
Trafford Hall
Replacement
Catherine Palace ,
Tsarskoye Selo in
Russia , designed by
Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli , is completed.
Klov Palace ,
Kiev in
Russia , probably designed by Gottfried Schädel and Pyotr Neyelov, is completed.
Replacement
Basilica of the Birth of the Virgin Mary, Chełm in
Poland , designed by Paweł Fontana, is completed.
Reconstruction of
Abbot's Palace (Oliwa) in
Gdańsk , Poland, is completed.
Newbridge, now
Old Bridge, Pontypridd in
Wales , designed by
William Edwards , is completed.
[2]
St Andrew's in the Square ,
Glasgow ,
Scotland , designed by Allan Dreghorn, is completed.
[3]
Octagon Chapel, Norwich in England, designed by
Thomas Ivory , is completed.
[4]
Original
Whitefield's Tabernacle, Tottenham Court Road in London is built.
Trafford Hall in England is built.
Wrotham Park, Hertfordshire in England, designed by
Isaac Ware , is completed.
Shaw Mansion (New London, Connecticut) is built.
The
President's House (Princeton) , New Jersey, is built.
First Presbyterian Church (Newburyport, Massachusetts) is built.
Alloways Creek Friends Meetinghouse ,
Hancock's Bridge, New Jersey , is built.
Saint Gevorg of Mughni Church, Tbilisi in
Armenia is completely rebuilt.
St John the Evangelist Church,
Shobdon , Herefordshire, England, is completely rebuilt with a "
Strawberry Hill Gothic " interior.
[5] Elements of the previous building are incorporated in
folly arches nearby.
Publications
Isaac Ware publishes A Complete Body of Architecture in London.
Births
Deaths
References