1680 in architecture

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1680s in architecture

Buildings

1680
- St Clement Danes, London, designed by Christopher Wren, is completed.
- Church of San Lorenzo, Turin, designed by Guarino Guarini, is substantially completed.
1681
- Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute in Venice, designed by Baldassare Longhena in 1631, is dedicated.
- in Gdansk, designed by Tylman van Gameren, is completed.
- Old Ship Church Puritan meeting house in Hingham, Massachusetts, which will become the oldest church building in continuous ecclesiastical use in the United States, is erected.
- Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar in Zaragoza, Aragon, is begun to the design of Francisco Herrera the Younger (completed 1754).
1682
- Abingdon County Hall in Oxfordshire, England, designed by Christopher Kempster, is completed.
- Tom Tower at Christ Church, Oxford, England, designed by Christopher Wren, is completed.
- Khan al-Wazir in Aleppo is completed.
1683
- The Old Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, designed by Christopher Wren, is completed (the modern day Museum of the History of Science).
- Ragley Hall in Warwickshire, England, designed by Robert Hooke, is completed.
- Château de Dampierre in France, designed by Jules Hardouin Mansart, is completed.
1684
- The Royal Hospital Kilmainham in Dublin, Ireland, designed by William Robinson, is completed as a home for retired soldiers.
- The Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles in France, designed by Jules Hardouin Mansart, is completed.
- The Château de Marly in the Marly-le-Roi commune is completed for Louis XIV.
1686
- The Het Loo Palace at Apeldoorn in the Netherlands, designed by Jacob Roman and Johan van Swieten and begun in 1684, is completed; the garden is designed by Claude Desgotz.
1687
- The rebuilding of Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, England, begins under William Talman.
- The Parthenon in Athens is extensively damaged in the Morean War.
1688
- Friends meeting house at Jordans, Buckinghamshire, England.
1689
- Windsor Guildhall in Berkshire, England, designed by Sir Thomas Fitz (or Fiddes), is completed by Christopher Wren.
- in Otwock Wielki, Poland, designed by Tylman van Gameren, is completed.
- at Lazienki Palace, Warsaw, Poland, designed by Tylman van Gameren, is completed.

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