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The year '''1852 in architecture''' involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

==Events==
* February – [[Augustus Pugin]] suffers a breakdown and is admitted to a private asylum, [[Kensington House (academy)|Kensington House]]a, London, days after designing the [[Big Ben|clock tower]] for the [[Palace of Westminster]].<ref name=GA>{{cite book|last=Hill|first=Rosemary|year=2007|title=God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain|pages=482–490}}</ref>
* June – Augustus Pugin is transferred to the [[Royal Bethlem Hospital]].<ref name=GA />
* ''date unknown'' – [[Thomas Mainwaring Penson|Thomas M.&nbsp;Penson]] restores a house at 22&nbsp;Eastgate Street, [[Chester]], England, in [[Black-and-white Revival architecture|black-and-white Revival]] style.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Pevsner|first1=Nikolaus|authorlink1=Nikolaus Pevsner|authorlink2=Edward Hubbard (architectural historian)|first2=Edward|last2=Hubbard|title=The Buildings of England: Cheshire|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2003|location=New Haven; London|page=38|isbn=0-300-09588-0}}</ref><ref>{{NHLE |num=1376221|desc=No. 22 Eastgate Street and Row|accessdate=2017-02-12}}</ref>

==Buildings and structures==
{{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1852}}
===Buildings completed===
[[File:Kings Cross ILN 1852.jpg|thumb|[[London King's Cross railway station|King's Cross railway station]].]]
[[File:Houseofcommons1851.jpg|thumb|[[British House of Commons]].]]
* January 1 – [[Battle railway station]], [[East Sussex]] (England), designed by William Tress, is opened.
* February 3 – The [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom]] in the [[Palace of Westminster]], London (England) designed by [[Charles Barry]] and [[Augustus Pugin]], is opened.
* May 15 – [[Teatro Comunale Alighieri]] in [[Ravenna]], designed by [[Tommaso Meduna|Tommaso]] and [[Giovanni Battista Meduna|Giambattista Meduna]], is opened.
* October 14 – [[London King's Cross railway station]], designed by [[Lewis Cubitt]], is opened.<ref>{{cite book|last=Jackson|first=Alan A.|title=London's Termini|year=1985 |publisher=David & Charles|location=Newton Abbot|isbn=978-0-7153-8634-7}}</ref>
* [[Helsinki Cathedral]], Finland, designed by [[Carl Ludvig Engel]], is completed.
* Chapel of [[St Edmund's College, Ware]], England, designed by [[Augustus Pugin]] in 1845, is completed.
* [[:File:Ruins of the old St Mary's church and the Rolle family mausoleum by the churchyard in Bicton Park - geograph.org.uk - 1564073.jpg|Rolle Mausoleum]], [[Bicton, Devon]], England, reconstructed by Augustus Pugin, is completed.
* [[Siegestor]] (Victory Gate) in [[Munich]], Bavaria, designed by [[Friedrich von Gärtner]], is completed by [[Eduard Mezger]].
* [[Åmodt bro]] suspension bridge, Oslo, Norway.
* [[Philippi Covered Bridge]], West Virginia, United States.<ref>{{cite book|title=Covered Bridges in West Virginia|publisher=Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archeology|location=Morgantown, West Virginia}}</ref>

==Awards==
* [[Royal Institute of British Architects|RIBA]] [[Royal Gold Medal]] – [[Leo von Klenze]].
* [[Grand Prix de Rome]], architecture – P.R.L. Ginain.

==Births==
* [[June 25]] – [[Antoni Gaudí]], [[Catalan Modernism|Catalan Modernist]] architect (died [[1926 in architecture|1926]])<ref>Massó, Juan Bergós (1974). Gaudí, l'home i la obra (in Catalan). Barcelona: Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona. {{ISBN|84-600-6248-1}}. pp 17–18</ref>
* [[July 4]] – [[Edward Schroeder Prior|E. S. Prior]], English [[Arts and Crafts movement|Arts and Crafts]] architect and theorist (died [[1932 in architecture|1932]])

==Deaths==
* [[May 7]] – [[James Savage (architect)|James Savage]], English architect (born [[1779 in architecture|1779]]; buried in his [[St Luke's Church, Chelsea]])
* [[May 8]] – [[Giuseppe Jappelli]], Italian neoclassical architect and engineer (born [[1783 in architecture|1783]])
* [[July 5]] – [[Matthew Habershon]], English architect (born [[1789 in architecture|1789]])
* [[September 14]] – [[Augustus Pugin]], English architect, designer, artist and critic (born [[1812 in architecture|1812]]; "convulsions followed by coma")

==References==
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