1865 in architecture

The year 1865 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

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Events

• George Gilbert Scott wins the competition to design the St Pancras railway station hotel and buildings in London.^[1]

Buildings and structures

See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1865

Buildings completed

Amhuinnsuidhe Castle

• Amhuinnsuidhe Castle, Harris, Scotland, built for Charles Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore, by David Bryce.^[2] In 2003 Amhuinnsuidhe Castle Estate purchases the castle (and its fishing rights).^[3]
• Cefn Coed Viaduct, Wales, designed by Alexander Sutherland and Henry Conybeare.
• Government House, Brisbane, Australia, designed by Benjamin Backhouse.
• Bataclan theatre in Paris, designed by Charles Duval.
• Iron-framed shipping warehouses at Saint-Ouen in Paris, designed by engineer Hippolyte Fontaine.
• Crossness Pumping Station, serving the London sewage system, designed by engineer Joseph Bazalgette and architect Charles Henry Driver.
• Westminster Chapel, London, designed by W. F. Poulton.
• Stowford and Magnolia Cottages, Stowford, Cheshire, England, designed by William Eden Nesfield.

Awards

• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – James Pennethorne.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Jules Machard, André Hennebicq, Gustave Huberti.

Births

• April 27 – Archibald Leitch, Scottish architect, designer of football stadia (died 1939)
• September 20 – William Weir, Scottish-born conservation architect (died 1950)
• October 23 – Baillie Scott, British architect (died 1945)^[4]
• November 17 – Paul Charbonnier [fr], French architect (died 1953)
• date unknown
  • Józef Gosławski, Polish architect (died 1904)
  • Philip Mainwaring Johnston, English architect (died 1936)

Deaths

• January 8 – John Dobson, English neoclassical architect (born 1787)
• June 8 – Joseph Paxton, English gardener, architect and Member of Parliament, best known for The Crystal Palace (born 1803)
• December 4 – Francis Fowke, British engineer and architect (born 1823)
• December 23 – Alan Stevenson, Scottish lighthouse engineer (born 1807)