title: 1763 in architecture
text: # 1763 in architecture
  
  The year 1763 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
  
  ## Events
  
  * April 3 – Foundation stone of the church of La Madeleine, Paris laid; the original design, commissioned in 1757 from Pierre Contant d'Ivry, will not be completed.
  * Chapel for Clare Hall in the University of Cambridge (England) designed by Sir James Burrough.
  
  ## Buildings and structures
  
  ### Buildings opened
  
  * May 14 – Nuovo Teatro Pubblico in Bologna, designed by Antonio Galli Bibiena, opened.
  * July 24 – Požega Cathedral, Požega, Croatia, consecrated.
  * December 2 – Touro Synagogue, Newport, Rhode Island, designed by Peter Harrison, dedicated.
  * St Cecilia's Hall in Edinburgh, Scotland, designed by Robert Mylne, opened.
  
  ### Buildings completed
  
  * Börringe Castle, Sweden.
  * Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Croome, Worcestershire, England, designed by "Capability Brown" (exterior) and Robert Adam (interior).
  * Clérigos Church tower, Porto, Portugal.
  * St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania.
  * Villa Albani in Rome, designed by Carlo Marchionni, is substantially completed.
  * Donnington Grove in Berkshire, England, designed by John Chute, is built.
  * Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna, rebuilding by Nicolò Pacassi is completed.
  * Present Use Storehouse (No. 11), Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, England, is built.
  
  ## Births
  
  * August 8 – Charles Bulfinch, first native-born American to practice architecture as a profession (died 1844)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * February 2 – Emmanuel Héré de Corny, French court architect to Stanisław Leszczyński at Nancy (born 1705)
  * September 12 – Johann Joseph Couven, German baroque architect (born 1701)
  