1715 in architecture

The year 1715 in architecture involved some significant events.

Clarendon Building

Buildings

• The Clarendon Building at the University of Oxford, England, designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, is completed.
• St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham, England, designed by Thomas Archer is consecrated as a parish church.
• Many batteries and redoubts are built in Malta. Surviving examples include Saint Mary's Battery, Qolla l-Bajda Battery, Briconet Redoubt and Vendôme Tower.
• Filippo Juvarra starts working on the previously postponed construction of the church of Santa Christina in Turin.
• Filippo Juvarra starts rebuilding the church of San Filippo Neri, Turin in which the roof had collapsed during the siege of Turin during the War of the Spanish Succession.
• Fountain of the Tritons completed by Carlo Francesco Bizzaccheri.

The Fountain of the Tritons

Events

• Colen Campbell publishes the first volume of Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British Architect.

Deaths