1832 in architecture

The year 1832 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

• January – Theatre Royal, Wexford, Ireland (demolished 2006)^[1]

Buildings completed

• Church of Our Saviour, Qaqortoq, Greenland.
• Cutlers' Hall, Sheffield, England, designed by Samuel Worth and Benjamin Broomhead Taylor.
• Drapers' Hall, Coventry, England, designed by Thomas Rickman.
• Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland, designed by William Henry Playfair.
• Replacement Old City Gaol, Bristol, England, designed by Richard Shackleton Pope.
• Osgoode Hall, Toronto for The Law Society of Upper Canada, designed by John Ewart and W. W. Baldwin.
• Royal City of Dublin Hospital, Ireland, designed by Albert E. Murray.
• Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Gibraltar.
• Hill's Academy, Essex, Connecticut.
• Maderup Mølle, Funen, Denmark (now in The Funen Village)^[2]
• Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, Paris.
• The Mount, Sheffield, England (residential terrace), designed by William Flockton.
• Staines Bridge (across the River Thames in England), designed by George Rennie.
• Marlow Bridge (suspension, across the River Thames in England), designed by William Tierney Clark.
• Bridge Real Ferdinando sul Garigliano (suspension, in the Kingdom of Naples), designed by Luigi Giura.
• George IV Bridge in Edinburgh, designed by Thomas Hamilton.
• Church of St Dunstan-in-the-West, Fleet Street, London, completed after the death in July of its designer John Shaw, Sr. by his son, John Shaw, Jr.
• Stirling New Bridge in Scotland, designed by Robert Stevenson, completed.^[3]

Awards

• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Jean-Arnoud Léveil.

Births

• March 23 – Charles Henry Driver, English architect (died 1900)
• March 29 – William Swinden Barber, English architect (died 1908)
• September 25 – William Le Baron Jenney, American architect (died 1907)
• October 10 – Henry Hunter, English-born architect working in Tasmania (died 1892)
• December 15 – Gustave Eiffel, French civil engineer (died 1923)
• December 22 – Henry Augustus Sims, American architect working in Philadelphia (died 1875)
• date unknown – Frederick Thomas Pilkington, English-born architect working in Scotland (died 1898)

Deaths

• June 4 – William Heste, Russian architect, civil engineer and town planner of Scottish descent^[4]
• July 30 – John Shaw, Sr., English architect (born 1776)
• September 22 – William Fowler, English architect and engraver (born 1761)
• November 19 – John Paterson, Scottish architect
• December 19 – Augustus Charles Pugin, French-born English architectural draughtsman (born 1762)

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