Overview of the events of the 1680s in architecture
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Buildings and structures 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 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 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 1688 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
Births 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 1687: January 27? – Balthasar Neumann , German architect (died 1753 ) 1689: October – William Adam, Scottish architect (died 1748 )
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