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Overview of the events of 1835 in architecture
The year 1835 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
June 2 –December 1 – Competition for the design of a new in London, to be in Gothic or Elizabethan style.[1]
Roman Catholic Church in a chapel in
Salisbury , England, restored by himself.
[1] At about this time he also writes his first controversial publication, the pamphlet
Letter to A. W. Hakewill, architect, in answer to his reflections on the style for rebuilding the Houses of Parliament .
[1]
Late – The Lancaster, England
.
Robert Mills starts to construct the Old Patent Office Building , Washington, D.C., United States.
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc is commissioned by Prosper Mérimée to restore Vézelay Abbey , the first of many restorations by him.
Buildings and structures
Buildings completed
Royal Manchester Institution
Royal Manchester Institution , England, by Charles Barry (core of Manchester Art Gallery ).
Redesign of Buckingham Palace , London, by John Nash .
St Mary's Church , Westley, Suffolk , England, designed by William Ranger, an early example of concrete construction, using poured mass concrete and precast blocks[2] combined with a functional hammerbeam roof of cast iron .
New Hurley Reformed Church , New York .
Pawiak , prison in Warsaw, Poland (destroyed in 1944).[3]
Warehouse at Ellesmere Port , England, by Thomas Telford (destroyed by fire in 1970).
St Marie's Grange, Salisbury , England, a house by Augustus Pugin for himself (built January–September).[1]
Awards
Grand Prix de Rome
, architecture: Charles Victor Famin.
Births
Guy de Gisors
Deaths
References