1260s in architecture

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• 1260
• Chartres Cathedral consecrated.
• Grey Abbey, Kildare
• 1261
• St German's Priory Church, Cornwall, consecrated.
• Rebuilding of San Francesco, Pisa in Italy begun.
• c. 1262 – Église Saint-Urbain, Troyes, France, begun; choir and transepts completed 1266.
• 1263
• Romanesque St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, consecrated.
• Siena Cathedral completed (dome 1264).
• 1268 – Chennakesava Temple at Somanathapura in India (Hoysala Empire) built.
• 1269 – Fakr ad-Din Mosque in the Sultanate of Mogadishu

Births

• c. 1267 – Giotto, Florentine painter and architect (died 1337)

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