1840 in architecture
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The year 1840 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
- 27 April – The foundation stone of the new Palace of Westminster in London is laid as its reconstruction to a design by Charles Barry following a fire in 1834 begins (completed in 1860).{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/church_state/westminster_later/westminster_new_palace_02.shtml|title=Westminster: A New Palace for a New Age|last=Riding|first=Christine|date=2005-02-07|publisher=BBC|access-date=2010-11-15}}
- 30 September – Foundation of Nelson's Column, designed by William Railton, laid in London,{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}} Trafalgar Square being laid out and paved around it during the year.{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=263–264|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}
Buildings and structures
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=Buildings opened=
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- 11 May – Wingfield railway station in England, designed by Francis Thompson, is opened.{{cite book|first=Gordon|last=Biddle |title=Britain's Historic Railway Buildings: an Oxford Gazetteer of Structures and Sites|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2003|isbn=0-19-866247-5}}
- 31 August – Bristol Temple Meads railway station in England, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, is opened.
- July Column, Place de la Bastille, Paris, designed by Jean-Antoine Alavoine and Joseph-Louis Duc, erected, incorporating Auguste Dumont's Génie de la Liberté and bas-reliefs by Antoine-Louis Barye and others.
- Khaplu Palace built.
- Old Patent Office Building, Washington D.C., United States completed by Robert Mills.
- Forglen House, Scotland, designed by John Smith, is completed at about this date.{{Historic Environment Scotland|num=LB13603|desc=Forglen House|cat=A|access-date=2019-03-28}}
Awards
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Théodore Ballu.
Births
- January 11 – Robert Chisholm, English-born architect working in British India; proponent of the Indo-Saracenic style (died 1915)
- J. M. Brydon, Scottish-born architect working in London (died 1901)
Deaths
- February 18 – Sir Jeffry Wyatville, English architect and garden designer (born 1766)
- May 4 – Carl Ludvig Engel, German Empire style architect (born 1778)