1723 in architecture

The year 1723 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• Mavisbank House in Midlothian is designed by William Adam^[1] in collaboration with his client, Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, and is constructed between 1723 and 1727, the first Palladian villa in Scotland.^[2]
• St Mary le Strand in London, designed by James Gibbs, becomes the first wholly new church completed for the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches.
• Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca, Bologna, Italy, is designed by Carlo Francesco Dotti
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• February 23 – William Chambers, Swedish-born Scottish architect (died 1796)
• April 28 – John Carr, English architect (died 1807)

Deaths

• February 25 –
  1632
  )
• April 5 –
  1656
  )

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