title: 1440s in architecture
text: # 1440s in architecture
  
  ## Buildings and structures
  
  ### Buildings
  
  * 1440s
     * Great Tower of Tattershall Castle, Lincolnshire, England, is probably largely completed.
     * Wilcote Chapel of St Mary's Church, North Leigh, Oxfordshire, England, is built.
  * 1440
     * Guildhall, London, is completed.
     * Sidi Yahya Mosque in Timbuktu is completed.
     * St. Nicolai, Lüneburg, is completed.
  * 1441
     * The nave of the Church of the Holy Spirit, Heidelberg, Germany (begun in 1410), is completed.
     * Construction of Herstmonceux Castle in England is begun.
  * 1442
     * The Porta della Carta, built by Giovanni and his son Bartolomeo Bon, completes the Doge's Palace, Venice.
     * Chapel of All Souls College, Oxford, consecrated.
  * 1443 – The Castle of Zafra is completed.
  * 1445
     * Church of San Pablo, Valladolid is begun.
     * Palazzo Medici in Florence is begun by Michelozzo.
  * 1446
     * July 25 – The foundation stone of King's College Chapel, Cambridge, England is laid by King Henry VI of England.
     * Precious Belt Bridge in China reconstructed.
     * Approximate date
        * Jama Masjid of Herat in Afghanistan is completed
        * Construction of Palazzo Rucellai in Florence, probably designed by Leon Battista Alberti and executed, at least in part, by Bernardo Rossellino, is begun.
        * Construction of Ockwells Manor in Berkshire, England, is begun.
  * 1446–1450 – Reconstruction of choir of Mont Saint Michel Abbey in Normandy is begun.
  * c. 1447 – Llotja dels Mercaders (Silk Exchange) in Palma, Majorca, designed by Guillem Sagrera, completed.
  
  ## Births
  
  * c. 1440 – Reginald Bray born in Worcester, England (d. 1503)
  * c. 1443 – Giuliano da Sangallo born in Florence (d. 1516)
  * c. 1444 – Donato Bramante born in Monte Asdrualdo (modern-day Fermignano), Italy (d. 1514)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 1446: April 16 – Filippo Brunelleschi dies in Florence (b. 1377)
  