1809 in architecture

The year 1809 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

September – Demolition of most of the Anglo-Saxon St Mary's Church, Reculver, on the coast of south-east England, begins.{{cite journal|last=Cozens|first=Z.|title=Delapidated State of the Church at Reculver|journal=The Gentleman's Magazine|volume=79|year=1809|pages=906–8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BaJoSZchmCUC&pg=PA906|accessdate=2022-05-11}}

Gordon House, Chelsea, London, England, designed by Thomas Leverton for Colonel James Willoughby Gordon.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/periodproperty/9216806/The-Royal-Hospital-Chelsea-up-for-sale.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120424081222/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/periodproperty/9216806/The-Royal-Hospital-Chelsea-up-for-sale.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-04-24|first=Christopher|last=Middleton|title=The Royal Hospital Chelsea up for sale|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|date=2012-04-23}}
Nelson's Column, Montreal, Canada, designed and built by Coade & Sealy of London.{{cite book|title=Hochelaga depicta: the early history and present state of the city and island of Montreal|url=https://archive.org/details/hochelagadepicta00bosw_0|year=1839|first=Newton|last=Bosworth}}
Nelson's Pillar, Dublin, Ireland, design by William Wilkins amended by Francis Johnston, opened.
Armagh Courthouse, Ireland, designed by William Wilkins, completed.
Portsmouth Academy building, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States, designed by James Nutter.
Second Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London, designed by Robert Smirke, opened.
Dunkeld Bridge, Scotland, designed by Thomas Telford, completed.{{cite web|url=https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB5620|title=Dunkeld Bridge Over River Tay|publisher=Historic Environment Scotland|accessdate=2022-05-11}}

February 15 – Owen Jones, Welsh architect and designer (died 1874){{cite book|last=Clouse|first=Doug|title=The Handy Book of Artistic Printing: Collection of Letterpress Examples with Specimens of Type, Ornament, Corner Fills, Borders, Twisters, Wrinklers, and other Freaks of Fancy|publisher=Princeton Architectural Press|year=2009}}
March 29 – Georges-Eugène Haussmann, French town planner (died 1891)
October 31 – Edmund Sharpe, English architect and architectural historian (died 1877)
November 26 – Thomas Talbot Bury, English architect and lithographer (died 1877)