1727 in architecture

The year 1727 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• The baroque Catholic church of Santiago Apóstol is built in Albatera, Spain.
• The first Palladian villa in Scotland, Mavisbank House, designed by William Adam in collaboration with his client, Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, is completed.
• Widcombe Manor House, Bath, England.
• Church of Saint Maurice (Ebersmunster) in Alsace, designed by Peter Thumb, is completed.
• Trinitarian Church of Bratislava sanctified.
• Baclayon Church in the Philippines rebuilt in stone.
• Virga Jesse church, Hasselt, Flanders, built.
• First Presbyterian Church (Trenton, New Jersey) built.
• Construction of Menshikov Palace (Saint Petersburg) (opened 1711) is completed.
• Pilgrimage Church of Saint John of Nepomuk, Grünberg (Zelená hora), Bohemia, designed by Jan Santini Aichel, is completed.

Awards

• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: François Gallot.

Births

• Johann Nepomuk Fuchs, Lower Styrian church architect (d. 1804)
• Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux, French neoclassical architect (d. 1793)

Deaths

• April 18 – Matthias Steinl, Austrian baroque sculptor and architect (b. c.1644)

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