1715 in architecture

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The year 1715 in architecture involved some significant events.

• 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.

• Colen Campbell publishes the first volume of Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British Architect.

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