1120s in architecture

Buildings and structures

• 1120
• Autun Cathedral begun.
• Pagoda of Tianning Temple (天宁寺塔) in Beijing, China completed.
• c. 1120 – Abbey Church of Saint Foy in Conques, France completed.
• 1121
• Hoysaleswara Temple of Halebidu, India (Hoysala Empire) completed.
• October 23 – Choir of Tewkesbury Abbey in England consecrated (begun in 1102).
• 1123
• Sant Climent de Taüll, Catalonia consecrated.
• 2nd reconstruction of Basilica di San Zeno in Verona, Italy, begins.
• Construction of the Château de Falaise in Normandy begins.
• 1124 – Reconstruction of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Rome, completed (begun in 1118).
• 1125 – Duladeo (Duladeva) temple is built in Khajuraho, Chandela kingdom.
• c. 1125–1130 – Round Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Cambridge, England, built.
• 1127 – Rochester Castle, England begun.
• 1128
• Florence Baptistry, Tuscany completed.
• Reconstruction of Angoulême Cathedral, France completed, largely as remaining in modern times.

Deaths

• 1124 – March 15 – Ernulf, French-born Benedictine Bishop of Rochester and architect (b. c.1040)

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