1711 in architecture

The year 1711 in architecture involved some significant events.

Events

Commission for Building Fifty New Churches set up in London under terms of the New Churches in London and Westminster Act 1710 (9 Ann. c. 17). Most of the nineteen churches it eventually builds or rebuilds will be designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, with John James, Thomas Archer and James Gibbs also participating.{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=38870|title=List of churches built|editor=Port, M. H.|publisher=Institute of Historical Research|location=London|year=1986|work=The Commissions for building fifty new churches: The minute books, 1711-27, a calendar|access-date=2012-11-14}}

Construction begins on Schloss Weißenstein, Bavaria, palatial residence designed for Lothar Franz von Schönborn, Prince-Bishop of Bamberg and Archbishop of Mainz, by Johann Dientzenhofer and Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt.{{cite book|last=Schiedermair|first=Werner|title=Schloss Weißenstein in Pommersfelden (German)|publisher=Fink|year=2011|isbn=978-3-89870-145-7|page=10}}
Marlborough House in London, designed by Christopher Wren, is completed.{{cite book|last1=Spaltro|first1=Kathleen|last2=Bridge|first2=Noeline|title=Royals of England: A Guide for Readers, Travelers, and Genealogists|date=2005|publisher=iUniverse|isbn=9780595373123|page=235|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UUOzgLiyd54C&pg=PA235|language=en}}
Menshikov Palace (Saint Petersburg) is opened.{{cite web|title=Menshikov Palace|url=http://www.visit-petersburg.ru/en/showplace/196852/|access-date=15 January 2018}}
Pope Clement XI places an Egyptian obelisk in the fountain in front of the Pantheon, Rome.{{cite book|last1=Curl|first1=James Stevens|title=The Egyptian Revival: Ancient Egypt as the Inspiration for Design Motifs in the West|date=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781134234684|page=28|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OcU7YPeE5yoC&pg=PA28|language=en}}

September 22 – Thomas Wright, English astronomer, mathematician and garden designer (died 1786){{cite ODNB|id=30060|title=Wright, Thomas (1711–1786), astronomer and landscape gardener|author=Knight, David|year=2004}}
December 23 – Jacob Fortling, German-born Danish sculptor, architect and industrialist (died 1761){{cite web|url=https://gravsted.dk/person.php?navn=jacobfortling|title=Jacob Fortling|website=gravsted.dk|language=da|access-date=13 September 2024}}
unknown date – Eugénio dos Santos, Portuguese architect and military engineer (died 1760){{cite book|author=Kenneth Maxwell|title=Pombal, paradox of the Enlightenment|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1995|isbn=9780521450447|page=24}}

unknown date – Henry Bell, English architect (born 1647){{cite ODNB|id=37174|title=Bell, Henry (bap. 1647, d. 1711), architect and merchant|author=Bold, John}}