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<h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul><li>Two influential <a href="/facts/Clergy_house/joXlEL11">clergy houses</a> for the <a href="/facts/Church_of_England/A1CoKeGz">Church of England</a> are designed: the Rectory at <a href="/facts/Rampisham/9ywNeJoM">Rampisham</a>, Dorset, designed by <a href="/facts/Augustus_Pugin/1KAzB0Tj">Augustus Pugin</a> (along with restoration of the church; completed 1847) and the Vicarage at <a href="/facts/Coalpit_Heath/c6Sw64d7">Coalpit Heath</a> in south Gloucestershire, designed by <a href="/facts/William_Butterfield/3l33XadY">William Butterfield</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> (along with his first new Anglican church, St Saviour's, consecrated October 9).</li> <li><a href="/facts/Robert_William_Billings/KeFJBvNx">Robert William Billings</a> begins publication of <i>The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland</i>.</li></ul> <h2 id="buildings-and-structures">Buildings and structures</h2> <p class="note">See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1845</p> <h3>Buildings completed</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Trafalgar_Square/qpfN8hMX">Trafalgar Square</a> in <a href="/facts/London/KozCCsy9">London</a>, designed by <a href="/facts/Charles_Barry/BLTxj72p">Charles Barry</a> and <a href="/facts/John_Nash_(architect)/mTRa1dG6">John Nash</a> is completed.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Government_House%2c_Sydney/5J02x57k">Government House, Sydney</a> in <a href="/facts/Australia/qLHpbppq">Australia</a>, designed by <a href="/facts/Edward_Blore/eLX5PjeR">Edward Blore</a>, is completed and first occupied.</li> <li><a href="/facts/The_Hub%2c_Edinburgh/5R0EGxcR">Tolbooth Kirk, Edinburgh</a>, designed by <a href="/facts/James_Gillespie_Graham/wt8UdalL">James Gillespie Graham</a> and <a href="/facts/Augustus_Pugin/1KAzB0Tj">Augustus Pugin</a>, is completed as a church and General Assembly hall (Victoria Hall) for the <a href="/facts/Church_of_Scotland/2bcCCbMP">Church of Scotland</a>.</li> <li>New St Mary and St Nicholas parish church in <a href="/facts/Wilton%2c_Wiltshire/xMzSmJvq">Wilton, Wiltshire</a>, England, designed by <a href="/facts/Thomas_Henry_Wyatt/6HTFJ2NT">Thomas Henry Wyatt</a> and <a href="/facts/David_Brandon_(architect)/N8JwDRYq">David Brandon</a>, is completed at about this date.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Praha_Masarykovo_n%25C3%25A1dra%25C5%25BE%25C3%25AD/wIB1e55d">Praha Masarykovo nádraží</a>, the first railway station in <a href="/facts/Prague/txpRNTUE">Prague</a>, designed by Antonín Jüngling, is completed.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Cambridge_railway_station/YJe6E7fC">Cambridge railway station</a> in England is opened.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Oundle_railway_station/uARAMndF">Oundle</a> and <a href="/facts/Wansford_railway_station/wtKywtlw">Wansford railway stations</a> on <a href="/facts/Northampton_and_Peterborough_Railway/uQgAnk1n">Northampton and Peterborough Railway</a> in England, designed by <a href="/facts/John_William_Livock/Y3Gy1oxW">John William Livock</a>, opened.</li></ul> <h2 id="awards">Awards</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Grand_Prix_de_Rome/edb3ht9K">Grand Prix de Rome</a>, architecture: Félix Thomas.</li></ul> <h2 id="births">Births</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/August_17/yVrQpPk6">August 17</a> – <a href="/facts/Gyula_P%25C3%25A1rtos/fuRsn1Qq">Gyula Pártos</a>, Hungarian architect (died <a href="/facts/1916_in_architecture/jxgelBJa">1916</a>)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/October_9/HbzR2evC">October 9</a> – <a href="/facts/Ferdinand_Arnodin/JaTcp0Qv">Ferdinand Arnodin</a>, French bridge engineer (died <a href="/facts/1924_in_architecture/PylXtU9t">1924</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/December_12/wo5rv56W">December 12</a> – <a href="/facts/Bruce_Price/DTtbspqs">Bruce Price</a>, American architect (died <a href="/facts/1903_in_architecture/WVzTpr5X">1903</a>)</li></ul> <h2 id="deaths">Deaths</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/July_10/QI64koSa">July 10</a> – <a href="/facts/Christian_Frederik_Hansen/RCpBydU6">Christian Frederik Hansen</a>, Danish architect ("Denmark’s Palladio")<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> (born <a href="/facts/1756_in_architecture/XI47ILvL">1756</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/July_12/sxuDFs66">July 12</a> – <a href="/facts/Friedrich_Ludwig_Persius/Sz4GWmxM">Friedrich Ludwig Persius</a>, Prussian architect (born <a href="/facts/1803_in_architecture/dTlgIx4b">1803</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Fryderyk_Bauman/t1Xch2AM">Fryderyk Bauman</a>, Polish architect, sculptor and decorator (born 1765/70)</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Tiller, Kate (2016). Parsonages. Oxford: Shire. ISBN 978-1-78442-137-3. <a href="978-1-78442-137-3" target="_blank">978-1-78442-137-3</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Pártos Gyula". Hungarian Electronic Library (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2012-05-13. <a href="http://mek.oszk.hu/00300/00355/html/index.html" target="_blank">http://mek.oszk.hu/00300/00355/html/index.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Palmer, Allison Lee (11 February 2011). "Hansen, Christian Frederik". Historical Dictionary of Neoclassical Art and Architecture. p. 109. ISBN 9780810874749. <a href="9780810874749" target="_blank">9780810874749</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>