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Overview of the events of 1718 in architecture
The year 1718 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
- In
Pascagoula, Mississippi, the Old Spanish Fort is built.
- In
Bengal, the mazar of Saint Shah Sultan Mahi Swar Balkhi is built, a single domed
mosque.
- In
Bavaria,
Schloss Weißenstein is completed to the designs of
Johann Dientzenhofer and
Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt.
- In
London,
St Alfege Church, Greenwich, rebuilt by
Nicholas Hawksmoor, is consecrated, the first completed work of the
Commission for Building Fifty New Churches.
- The church of
Santa Cristina, Turin, is completed under guidance of
Filippo Juvarra.
- Temple in
Shotover Park, Oxfordshire, an early example of
Gothic Revival architecture in England.
-
Willmer House in
Farnham, England, a noted example of brick building.
Schloss Weißenstein
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