1080s in architecture

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• 1080
• Rebuilding of Basilica of St. Sernin, Toulouse begun.
• Construction of Cluny Abbey III in France, begun.
• Circa 1080
• The first building of what would become the Château de Picomtal was built.
• 1081
• Surviving Chora Church in Constantinople completed (begun in 1077).
• Aljafería Palace in Zaragoza, Spain completed (begun in 1065).
• Old Mainz Cathedral destroyed by a fire, marking the beginning of the construction of the building which survives to the modern day.
• 1082 – Great Mosque of Tlemcen built in the Almoravid Empire.
• 1083 – Surviving Ely Cathedral in England begun.
• 1086 – Shwezigon Pagoda in Nyaung-U completed.
• before 1087 – Construction of the Church of Christ Pantepoptes in Constantinople begun.
• 1087
• White Tower (Tower of London) in England finished (begun in 1078).
• Basilica di San Nicola in Bari, Apulia, begun.
• 1088
• Rebuilding of Cluny Abbey in France begun.
• Eynsford Castle in England built.
• 1089 – Romanesque stage of St Albans Cathedral in England completed.

Births

• c. 1081 – Abbot Suger (died 1151), French abbot-statesman and patron of Gothic architecture.

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