1240s in architecture
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Buildings and structures[edit]
Buildings[edit]
- 1240 – Construction begins of the Castel del Monte in Apulia, Italy, for Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor; used by Frederick primarily as a hunting lodge.[1]
- c. 1240–1250 – Heddal Stave Church in Norway built.
- 1242 – Rebuilding of Peyrepertuse Castle in France to its current form begun.[citation needed]
- c.1245 – Rebuilding of Westminster Abbey begun.[2]
- 1246 – Lakshmi Narasimha Temple, Nuggehalli built in the Hoysala Empire.[3]
- 1247
- Basilica of St. Cunibert, Cologne, consecrated.
- Inauguration of St. Mary's Church, Sigtuna, Sweden.
- Start of reconstruction of Bassac Abbey.
- Approximate start of construction of original Pagoda of Monk Wansong in Beijing.
- 1248
- April 26 – Consecration of Sainte Chapelle, Paris.[4]
- August 15 – The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral in Cologne is laid[5] by Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden.
- 1249 – Sadasiva Temple, Nuggehalli built in the Hoysala Empire.[6]
Great Mosque of Djenné (begun 1240)
Peyrepertuse Castle (1242)
Lakshmi Narasimha Temple, Nuggehalli (1246)
Sadasiva Temple, Nuggehalli (1249)
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Births[edit]
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Deaths[edit]
- 1245 – c. June: Elias of Dereham, English canon and building designer
References[edit]
- ^ David Abulafia (1992) Frederick II: a medieval emperor pp 288. Oxford University Press US ISBN 0-19-508040-8
- ^ Sutton, Ian (1999). Architecture, from Ancient Greece to the Present. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-20316-3.
- ^ Evans, Kirsti (1997). Epic narratives in the Hoysaḷa temples: the Rāmāyaṇa, Mahābhārata, and Bhāgavata Purāṇa in Haḷebīd, Belūr, and Amṛtapura. Brill. p. 258. ISBN 90-04-10575-1.
- ^ Erlande-Brandenburg, Alain. "The Ste Chapelle (Paris-Buildings)". Grove Encyclopedia of Art.
- ^ John Henry Parker (1846) A companion to the fourth ed. of A glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture pp 89. J.H. Parker
- ^ Madhusudan A. Dhaky (1977) The Indian temple forms in Karṇātạ inscriptions and architecture pp 20. Abhinav Publications ISBN 81-7017-065-6
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