1250s in architecture

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• c. 1250
• Western towers and north rose window of Notre Dame de Paris in the Kingdom of France are built.
• Hexham Abbey, England completed (begun c. 1170).
• Konark Sun Temple in Odisha built.
• 1250
• Château de Spesbourg, Holy Roman Empire built.
• Ponts Couverts, Strasbourg, opened.
• 1252 – Church of Alcobaça Monastery in Portugal completed.
• c. 1252 – The Franciscan abbey of Claregalway Friary, in Claregalway, County Galway, Ireland is commissioned by Norman knight John de Cogan.
• 1253 – Construction of the upper Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi in Assisi, designed by Elia Bombardone, is completed.
• 1255 – New Gothic choir of the Tournai Cathedral in the Kingdom of France built.
• 1256 – Construction of Hermann Castle in present-day Estonia is started.
• 1257 – Construction of the Basilica di Santa Chiara in Assisi begun.
• 1258 – The main body of the Salisbury Cathedral (begun in 1220) in Salisbury, England, is completed.

Births

• c. 1250 Giovanni Pisano, Italian sculptor, painter, and architect (d. c. 1315)

Deaths

• none listed

References