1832 in architecture
# 1832 in architecture

The year 1832 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

## Buildings and structures

### Buildings opened

* January – Theatre Royal, Wexford, Ireland (demolished 2006)

### Buildings completed

* Church of Our Saviour, Qaqortoq, Greenland.
* Cutlers' Hall, Sheffield, England, designed by Samuel Worth and Benjamin Broomhead Taylor.
* Drapers' Hall, Coventry, England, designed by Thomas Rickman.
* Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland, designed by William Henry Playfair.
* Replacement Old City Gaol, Bristol, England, designed by Richard Shackleton Pope.
* Osgoode Hall, Toronto for The Law Society of Upper Canada, designed by John Ewart and W. W. Baldwin.
* Royal City of Dublin Hospital, Ireland, designed by Albert E. Murray.
* Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Gibraltar.
* Hill's Academy, Essex, Connecticut.
* Maderup Mølle, Funen, Denmark (now in The Funen Village)
* Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, Paris.
* The Mount, Sheffield, England (residential terrace), designed by William Flockton.
* Staines Bridge (across the River Thames in England), designed by George Rennie.
* Marlow Bridge (suspension, across the River Thames in England), designed by William Tierney Clark.
* Bridge Real Ferdinando sul Garigliano (suspension, in the Kingdom of Naples), designed by Luigi Giura.
* George IV Bridge in Edinburgh, designed by Thomas Hamilton.
* Church of St Dunstan-in-the-West, Fleet Street, London, completed after the death in July of its designer John Shaw, Sr. by his son, John Shaw, Jr.
* Stirling New Bridge in Scotland, designed by Robert Stevenson, completed.

## Awards

* Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Jean-Arnoud Léveil.

## Births

* March 23 – Charles Henry Driver, English architect (died 1900)
* March 29 – William Swinden Barber, English architect (died 1908)
* September 25 – William Le Baron Jenney, American architect (died 1907)
* October 10 – Henry Hunter, English-born architect working in Tasmania (died 1892)
* December 15 – Gustave Eiffel, French civil engineer (died 1923)
* December 22 – Henry Augustus Sims, American architect working in Philadelphia (died 1875)
* date unknown – Frederick Thomas Pilkington, English-born architect working in Scotland (died 1898)

## Deaths

* June 4 – William Heste, Russian architect, civil engineer and town planner of Scottish descent
* July 30 – John Shaw, Sr., English architect (born 1776)
* September 22 – William Fowler, English architect and engraver (born 1761)
* November 19 – John Paterson, Scottish architect
* December 19 – Augustus Charles Pugin, French-born English architectural draughtsman (born 1762)
