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Overview of the events of 1715 in architecture
The year 1715 in architecture involved some significant events.
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Clarendon Building
The Clarendon Building at the University of Oxford , England , designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor , is completed.[1]
Chapel and Hall , The Queen's College, Oxford , England, designed by George Clarke after Hawksmoor, structurally completed.[2]
St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham , England, designed by Thomas Archer is consecrated as a parish church.
Many batteries and redoubts are built in Malta . Surviving examples include Saint Mary's Battery , Qolla l-Bajda Battery , Briconet Redoubt and Vendôme Tower .
Filippo Juvarra starts working on the previously postponed construction of the church of Santa Christina in Turin .
Filippo Juvarra starts rebuilding the church of San Filippo Neri, Turin in which the roof had collapsed during the siege of Turin during the War of the Spanish Succession .
Fountain of the Tritons in Rome completed by Carlo Francesco Bizzaccheri .
Clarence House , 22 Watling Street, Thaxted , England, is completed.
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