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Overview of the events of 1712 in architecture

List of years in architecture

Buildings and structures

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The year 1712 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings and structures

See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1712

Buildings

Castle Howard

Castle Howard in Yorkshire, England (begun 1699), designed by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor, is completed.
Roehampton House in Roehampton, London, England, designed by Thomas Archer is completed.
Palais Trautson in Vienna is built.
St Alkmund's Church, Whitchurch, Shropshire, England, designed by John Barker, is consecrated.
Construction of church of Santissimo Nome di Maria e degli Angeli Custodi, Genoa, begins (completed c.1770).

Births

November 7 – Antoine Choquet de Lindu, French architect and military engineer (died 1790)

Deaths

October 27 – Sir William Robinson, English architect, worked in Ireland (born 1645)

References

Summerson, John; Sir, John Newenham Summerson (1993). Architecture in Britain, 1530 to 1830. Yale University Press. p. 559. ISBN 9780300058864.
Parsons, Nicholas (2008). Vienna: A Cultural History. Oxford University Press. p. 40. ISBN 9780199888481.

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