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Events

• November 1 – Foundation stone laid for church of All Saints, Margaret Street, London, designed by William Butterfield. supervised by Beresford Hope for the Cambridge Camden Society as a model of the High Victorian Gothic ecclesiological style.

Buildings and structures

See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1850

Buildings completed

• Bratsberg Church, Trondheim, Norway.¹
• Hillsgrove Covered Bridge, Pennsylvania, USA.²
• Britannia Bridge in North Wales, engineered by Robert Stephenson, is opened.
• Newcastle railway station in the north-east of England, designed by John Dobson, is opened.³
• Sainte-Geneviève Library in Paris, designed by Henri Labrouste, is completed, the first major public building with an exposed cast-iron frame.⁴
• Château de Boursault, France, designed by Jean-Jacques Arveuf-Fransquin.
• Peckforton Castle, England, designed by Anthony Salvin.
• Vĩnh Tràng Temple, Mỹ Tho, Vietnam.⁵

Awards

• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Victor Louvet
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Charles Barry

Births

• January 10 – John Wellborn Root, Chicago-based US architect (died 1891)
• February 17 – Frank Darling, Canadian architect associated with Toronto (died 1923)
• November 15 – Victor Laloux, French Beaux-Arts architect and teacher (died 1937)
• December 21 – Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Spanish-Catalan architect, a leader of Modernisme català, the Catalan Art Nouveau/Jugendstil movement (died 1927)
• Robert Worley, English architect (died 1930)

Deaths

• February 19 – François Debret, French architect (born 1777)
• March 2 – Auguste-Henri-Victor Grandjean de Montigny, French architect influential in Brazil (born 1776)
• May 8 – Antonio Niccolini, Italian architect, scenic designer, and engraver (born 1772)⁶
• July 12 – Robert Stevenson, Scottish lighthouse engineer (born 1772)
• September 5 — John Holden Greene, American architect based in Providence, Rhode Island (born 1777)

References

1. "Bratsberg kirke" (in Norwegian). Strinda historielag. Retrieved 2011-04-15. http://www.strindahistorielag.no/wiki/index.php?title=Bratsberg_kirke ↩

2. "Pennsylvania Cultural Resources Geographic Information System". Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2007-07-21. Retrieved 2011-01-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20070721014609/https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce/SelectWelcome.asp ↩

3. Biddle, Gordon; Nock, Oswald (1983). The Railway Heritage of Britain. London: Michael Joseph. ISBN 0-7181-2355-7. 0-7181-2355-7 ↩

4. Trachtenberg, Marvin; Hyman, Isabelle (1986). Architecture: from Prehistory to Post-Modernism – the Western tradition. London: Academy Editions. p. 478. ISBN 0-85670-899-2. 0-85670-899-2 ↩

5. Võ Văn Tường. "Các chùa Nam Bộ" (in Vietnamese). Buddhism Today. Retrieved 2008-05-30. http://www.buddhismtoday.com/viet/pgvn/chua/002-danhlamnuocviet3.htm ↩

6. Cassanelli, Roberto; Ciapparelli, Pier Luigi; Colle, Enrico; David, Massimiliano (2001). Houses and Monuments of Pompeii: The Work of Fausto and Felice Niccolini. p. 23. ISBN 9780892366842. 9780892366842 ↩