1680s in architecture

Overview of the events of the 1680s in architecture

List of years in architecture

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## Buildings and structures

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See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1680

Santa Maria della Salute

* 1680
* St Clement Danes, London, designed by Christopher Wren, is completed.
* Church of San Lorenzo, Turin, designed by Guarino Guarini, is substantially completed.
* Star Building at Windsor Castle and Cassiobury House in England, designed by Hugh May, are completed; and his work on St George's Hall, Windsor Castle, is beginning.
* 1681
* Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute in Venice, designed by Baldassare Longhena in 1631, is dedicated.
* Sobieski Royal Chapel in Gdańsk, designed by Tylman van Gameren, is completed.
* Old Ship Church Puritan meeting house in Hingham, Massachusetts, which will become the oldest church building in continuous ecclesiastical use in the United States, is erected.
* Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar in Zaragoza, Aragon, is begun to the design of Francisco Herrera the Younger (completed 1754).
* 1682
* Abingdon County Hall in Oxfordshire, England, designed by Christopher Kempster, is completed.
* Tom Tower at Christ Church, Oxford, England, designed by Christopher Wren, is completed.
* College of Matrons in Salisbury, England, probably designed by Christopher Wren, is built.
* Khan al-Wazir in Aleppo is completed.

Château de Dampierre in France Hall of Mirrors, Palace of Versailles

* 1683
* The Old Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, probably designed by the mason Thomas Wood, is opened, the first purpose-built university museum (the modern day Museum of the History of Science).[1]
* Ramsbury Manor in Wiltshire, England, designed by Robert Hooke, is completed (his Ragley Hall in Warwickshire is nearing completion at this time).
* Château de Dampierre in France, designed by Jules Hardouin Mansart, is completed.
* Église Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin (Paris), designed by Pierre Bullet, is consecrated.
* 1684
* The Royal Hospital Kilmainham in Dublin, Ireland, designed by William Robinson, is completed as a home for retired soldiers.
* The Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles in France, designed by Jules Hardouin Mansart, is completed.
* The Château de Marly in the Marly-le-Roi commune is completed for Louis XIV.
* The Canal de l'Eure with its notable aqueduct, designed by the military engineer Lieutenant Général Vauban to serve Versailles for Louis XIV, is begun; work is abandoned about 1690.
* Middle Temple gateway, Fleet Street, London, designed by Roger North, is completed.
* The original Kaohsiung Confucius Temple is built.
* 1685
* Ishak Pasha Palace in eastern Anatolia is begun.
* 1686
* The Het Loo Palace at Apeldoorn in the Netherlands, designed by Jacob Roman and Johan van Swieten and begun in 1684, is completed; the garden is designed by Claude Desgotz.
* Kinross House in Scotland, designed by Sir William Bruce for himself, is begun.

Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, England

* 1687
* Neanderkirche in Düsseldorf (begun 1683) is completed.
* The rebuilding of Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, England, begins under William Talman.
* The Parthenon in Athens is extensively damaged in the Morean War.
* 1688
* Belton House in Lincolnshire, England, perhaps designed by William Winde, is completed.
* Friends meeting house at Jordans, Buckinghamshire, England.
* 1689
* Windsor Guildhall in Berkshire, England, designed by Sir Thomas Fitz (or Fiddes), is completed by Christopher Wren.[2]
* Swallowfield Park, near Reading, Berkshire, England, is designed by William Talman.
* Bieliński Palace in Otwock Wielki, Poland, designed by Tylman van Gameren, is completed.
* Lubomirski bathing pavilion at Łazienki Palace, Warsaw, Poland, designed by Tylman van Gameren, is completed.

## Events

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* 1682: October 27 – The city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded by William Penn, laid out on a grid pattern.
* 1689: May – William Talman appointed Comptroller of the King's Works in England.

## Births

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* 1682
* William Benson, English amateur architect and politician (died 1754)
* December 23 – James Gibbs, Scottish-born architect (died 1754)
* 1683 – Thomas Ripley, English architect (died 1758)
* c. 1685 – William Kent, English architect and designer (died 1745)
* 1686
* September 29 – Cosmas Damian Asam, German Baroque architect and painter (died 1739)
* Giacomo Leoni, Venetian-born architect (died 1746)
* 1687: January 27? – Balthasar Neumann, German architect (died 1753)
* 1689: October – William Adam, Scottish architect (died 1748)

## Deaths

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* 1680
* November 28
* Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor and architect (born 1598)
* Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter (born 1606)[3]
* 1682: February 18 – Baldassare Longhena, Venetian Baroque architect (born 1598)
* 1684
* February 20 – Roger Pratt, English gentleman architect (born 1620)
* February 21 – Hugh May, English architect (born 1620)
* 1688: October 9 – Claude Perrault, French architect (born 1613)

## References

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1. ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
2. ^ "The Town Hall at Windsor". The Royal Windsor Web Site. Retrieved 2010-09-13.
3. ^ Chilvers, Ian (27 September 2017). The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. Oxford University Press. p. 589\. ISBN 978-0-19-102417-7.

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