1130s in architecture

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• 1130
• Construction of Abbaye aux Dames, Caen, Normandy, completed (begun in 1062).
• Canterbury Cathedral, England, consecrated.
• Rochester Cathedral, England, consecrated.
• New west front of Église Notre-Dame la Grande, Poitiers, begun.
• about 1130
• Keep of Hedingham Castle, England, begun.
• Urnes Stave Church built in Norway.
• 1131 – Cathedral of Cefalù begun.
• 1132
• San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro, Pavia, consecrated.
• San Giovanni degli Eremiti in Palermo, Norman Kingdom of Sicily built.
• Fountains Abbey begun in England
• 1133
• Rebuilding of Clairvaux Abbey begun.
• Construction of Angkor Wat begun.
• San Sisto, Pisa, Italy, consecrated.
• 1135
• Basilica di San Zeno in Verona, Italy, rebuilt to its current form.
• Nave vault of Durham Cathedral, England, completed.
• 1136
• Glasgow Cathedral in Scotland consecrated.
• Work begins on the narthex of the Basilique Saint-Denis in Saint-Denis, France.
• Reconstruction of the Great Mosque of Tlemcen in Almoravid Algeria
• 1138 – San Paolo a Ripa d'Arno in Pisa, Italy, rebuilt to its current form.
• 1139
• Verona Cathedral begun.
• Fontenay Abbey begun.
• about 1139 – Construction of Castle Rising in Norfolk, England, begins.

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