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Overview of the events of 1858 in architecture
The year 1858 in architecture involved some significant events.
Events
Buildings and structures
Buildings
Leeds Town Hall
Royal Opera House , Covent Garden
The
Hamilton Mausoleum in
Scotland is completed to an 1842 design by
David Hamilton by
David Bryce with sculptor
Alexander Handyside Ritchie .
Saint Isaac's Cathedral in
Saint Petersburg (Russia) is completed to an 1818 design by
Auguste de Montferrand .
Trinity Church (Oslo) in Norway, designed by Alexis de Chateauneuf and
Wilhelm von Hanno , is consecrated.
New
parish Church of St George, Doncaster , Yorkshire, England, designed by
George Gilbert Scott , is consecrated.
Wesley Church, Melbourne , Australia, is opened.
Leopoldstädter Tempel (synagogue) in
Vienna , designed by
Ludwig Förster , is built.
Grand Synagogue of Aden is built.
Church of the Resurrection in Katowice (Poland) is completed.
Fishergate Baptist Church in
Preston, Lancashire (England), designed by
James Hibbert and Nathan Rainford, is completed.
Leeds Town Hall in Yorkshire (England), designed by
Cuthbert Brodrick , is completed.
Ontario County Courthouse in
Canandaigua, New York , is built.
United States Customhouse and Post Office (Bath, Maine) is built.
The
Liverpool, London and Globe Building (insurance office) in
Liverpool (England), designed by
C. R. Cockerell , is completed.
The
West of England and South Wales Bank in
Bristol (England), designed by Bruce Gingell and T. R. Lysaght, is completed.
The rebuilt
Royal Opera House ,
Covent Garden , London, designed by
Edward Middleton Barry , is completed.
St James's Hall (concert hall),
Piccadilly , London, designed by
Owen Jones , is opened.
Hownes Gill Viaduct in
County Durham , England, designed by
Thomas Bouch , is opened.
New westwork at
Speyer Cathedral (Bavaria), designed by
Heinrich Hübsch , is completed.
Construction of
Woodchester Mansion (Spring Park) in
Gloucestershire , England, designed by
Benjamin Bucknall , is begun; work is abandoned in the 1870s.
Awards
Births
Auguste de Montferrand
Deaths
References