Editing 1840 in architecture

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The year '''1840 in architecture''' involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

==Events==
* [[27 April]] – The [[foundation stone]] of the new [[Palace of Westminster]] in [[London]] is laid as its reconstruction to a design by [[Charles Barry]] following a fire in 1834 begins (completed in 1860).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/church_state/westminster_later/westminster_new_palace_02.shtml|title=Westminster: A New Palace for a New Age|last=Riding|first=Christine|date=2005-02-07|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=2010-11-15}}</ref>
* [[30 September]] – Foundation of [[Nelson's Column]], designed by [[William Railton]], laid in London,<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref> [[Trafalgar Square]] being laid out and paved around it during the year.<ref name=CBH>{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=263–264|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>

==Buildings and structures==
{{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1840}}
===Buildings opened===
[[File:Bristol Temple Meads railway station train-shed engraving.jpg|thumb|[[Isambard Kingdom Brunel|I. K. Brunel]]'s [[train shed]] at [[Bristol Temple Meads railway station|Bristol Temple Meads]]; engraving by [[John Cooke Bourne]]]]
* [[11 May]] – [[Wingfield railway station]] in [[England]], designed by [[Francis Thompson (architect)|Francis Thompson]], is opened.<ref>{{cite book|first=Gordon|last=Biddle |title=Britain's Historic Railway Buildings: an Oxford Gazetteer of Structures and Sites|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2003|isbn=0-19-866247-5}}</ref>
* [[31 August]] – [[Bristol Temple Meads railway station]] in England, designed by [[Isambard Kingdom Brunel]], is opened.
* [[July Column]], [[Place de la Bastille]], [[Paris]], designed by [[Jean-Antoine Alavoine]] and [[Joseph-Louis Duc]], erected, incorporating [[Auguste Dumont]]'s ''Génie de la Liberté'' and [[bas-relief]]s by [[Antoine-Louis Barye]] and others.
* [[Khaplu Palace]] built.
* [[Old Patent Office Building]], [[Washington D.C.]], [[United States]] completed by [[Robert Mills (architect)|Robert Mills]].
* [[Forglen House]], [[Scotland]], designed by [[John Smith (architect)|John Smith]], is completed at about this date.<ref>{{Historic Environment Scotland|num=LB13603|desc=Forglen House|cat=A|access-date=2019-03-28}}</ref>

==Awards==
* [[Grand Prix de Rome]], architecture:  [[Théodore Ballu]].

==Births==
[[File:SirJeffryWyatvil.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Jeffry Wyatville]]]]
* [[January 11]] – [[Robert Chisholm (architect)|Robert Chisholm]], English-born architect working in British India; proponent of the Indo-Saracenic style (died [[1915 in architecture|1915]])
* [[J. M. Brydon]], Scottish-born architect working in London (died [[1901 in architecture|1901]])

==Deaths==
* [[February 18]] – Sir [[Jeffry Wyatville]], English architect and garden designer (born [[1766 in architecture|1766]])
* [[May 4]] – [[Carl Ludvig Engel]], German Empire style architect (born [[1778 in architecture|1778]])

==References==
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[[Category:1840 works|Architecture]]
[[Category:Years in architecture]]
[[Category:19th-century architecture]]