1777 in architecture

Events

• April 21 – The foundation stone of Wesley's Chapel in London is laid.

Buildings and structures

Buildings completed

• Corselitze, Falster, Denmark, designed by Andreas Kirkerup.
• Drumcar House, Ireland.
• Reformed Church, Lompirt, Romania.
• Rococo-Classicist Roman Catholic Church in Malý Kiar, The Glorification of the Saint Cross.
• Wenvoe Castle, Vale of Glamorgan, the only building in Wales designed by Robert Adam.
• Home House, Portman Square, London, completed to the design of Robert Adam.
• Richmond Bridge, London (across the River Thames), designed by James Paine and Kenton Couse.

Births

• February 13 – James Trubshaw, English builder, architect and civil engineer. (died 1853)
• September 9 — John Holden Greene, American architect based in Providence, Rhode Island (died 1850)
• October 11 – Fop Smit, Dutch architect, shipbuilder, and shipowner (died 1866)

Deaths

• March 3 – Sir Thomas Robinson, 1st Baronet, English nobleman and amateur architect (born c.1703)
• December 23 – Thomas Farnolls Pritchard, British architect and interior designer (born 1723)

References

References

1. (1993). "North Leinster: the counties of Longford, Louth, Meath and Westmeath". Yale University Press.
2. "Lompirt, Reformed church". Welcome to Romania.
3. "About us". Wenvoe Castle Golf Club.
4. [https://books.google.com/books?id=v_8IAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22james+trubshaw%22&pg=PA97 Anon. (1854) Obituary.—Mr. James Trubshaw, C.E. ''The Gentleman's Magazine'', Vol. XLI, 97–100] (accessed 16 October 2007)