1440s in architecture
# 1440s in architecture

## Buildings and structures

### Buildings

* 1440s
   * Great Tower of Tattershall Castle, Lincolnshire, England, is probably largely completed.
   * Wilcote Chapel of St Mary's Church, North Leigh, Oxfordshire, England, is built.
* 1440
   * Guildhall, London, is completed.
   * Sidi Yahya Mosque in Timbuktu is completed.
   * St. Nicolai, Lüneburg, is completed.
* 1441
   * The nave of the Church of the Holy Spirit, Heidelberg, Germany (begun in 1410), is completed.
   * Construction of Herstmonceux Castle in England is begun.
* 1442
   * The Porta della Carta, built by Giovanni and his son Bartolomeo Bon, completes the Doge's Palace, Venice.
   * Chapel of All Souls College, Oxford, consecrated.
* 1443 – The Castle of Zafra is completed.
* 1445
   * Church of San Pablo, Valladolid is begun.
   * Palazzo Medici in Florence is begun by Michelozzo.
* 1446
   * July 25 – The foundation stone of King's College Chapel, Cambridge, England is laid by King Henry VI of England.
   * Precious Belt Bridge in China reconstructed.
   * Approximate date
      * Jama Masjid of Herat in Afghanistan is completed
      * Construction of Palazzo Rucellai in Florence, probably designed by Leon Battista Alberti and executed, at least in part, by Bernardo Rossellino, is begun.
      * Construction of Ockwells Manor in Berkshire, England, is begun.
* 1446–1450 – Reconstruction of choir of Mont Saint Michel Abbey in Normandy is begun.
* c. 1447 – Llotja dels Mercaders (Silk Exchange) in Palma, Majorca, designed by Guillem Sagrera, completed.

## Births

* c. 1440 – Reginald Bray born in Worcester, England (d. 1503)
* c. 1443 – Giuliano da Sangallo born in Florence (d. 1516)
* c. 1444 – Donato Bramante born in Monte Asdrualdo (modern-day Fermignano), Italy (d. 1514)

## Deaths

* 1446: April 16 – Filippo Brunelleschi dies in Florence (b. 1377)
