1809 in architecture
Template:Short description Template:Year nav topic5 The year 1809 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
EventsEdit
- September – Demolition of most of the Anglo-Saxon St Mary's Church, Reculver, on the coast of south-east England, begins.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Buildings and structuresEdit
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The Hermitage, Hanwell, London - cottage orné of 1809
- Gordon House, Chelsea, London, England, designed by Thomas Leverton for Colonel James Willoughby Gordon.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- Nelson's Column, Montreal, Canada, designed and built by Coade & Sealy of London.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Nelson's Pillar, Dublin, Ireland, design by William Wilkins amended by Francis Johnston, opened.
- Armagh Courthouse, Ireland, designed by William Wilkins, completed.
- Portsmouth Academy building, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States, designed by James Nutter.
- Second Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London, designed by Robert Smirke, opened.
- Dunkeld Bridge, Scotland, designed by Thomas Telford, completed.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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AwardsEdit
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: André Chatillon.
BirthsEdit
- February 15 – Owen Jones, Welsh architect and designer (died 1874)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- March 29 – Georges-Eugène Haussmann, French town planner (died 1891)
- October 31 – Edmund Sharpe, English architect and architectural historian (died 1877)
- November 26 – Thomas Talbot Bury, English architect and lithographer (died 1877)
DeathsEdit
- November 4 – Gabriel Manigault, American architect (born 1758)