1805 in architecture
The year 1805 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
- November 26 – The Ellesmere Canal's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, designed by Thomas Telford and William Jessop, is opened on the border of Wales, the tallest and longest in Britain.
- Theatre Royal, Bath, England is opened.
- Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint Mary in Saint Petersburg is built.
- Haga Palace in Stockholm, Sweden, designed by Carl Christoffer Gjörwell, is completed.
Awards
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Auguste Guenepin
Births
- March 11 – Thomas Ellis Owen, English architect working chiefly around Southsea
- June 9 – Victor Baltard, French architect
- July 26 – John Miller, Scottish railway civil engineer
- Peter Ellis, English architect working in Liverpool
- James Salmon, Scottish architect
Deaths
- Peter Atkinson, English architect