1060s in architecture

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• 1060 - Nave of new Mont Saint Michel Abbey in Normandy begun.
• c.1060
• * Construction of the Baphuon in Yasodharapura, Khmer Empire.
• * Lawkananda Pagoda built in Bagan, Pagan Kingdom.
• * Shwezigon Pagoda in Nyaung-U, Pagan Kingdom, begun.
• * Church of St Philibert, Tournus in Burgundy completed.
• * St Gregory's Minster, Kirkdale in England built.
• 1061 - Speyer Cathedral, Germany, consecrated.
• 1062 - Construction of Abbey of Sainte-Trinité, Caen, Normandy begun.
• 1063
• * Duomo of Pisa, Italy begun.
• * Rebuilding of Doge's Palace, Venice begun.
• * Basilica of San Isidoro, León, Spain consecrated.
• c.1063
• * Abbey of Saint-Étienne, Caen, Normandy founded.
• * Greensted Church, Essex, England, built.
• 1064 - Abbey of Lessay, Normandy begun.
• 1065 - St. Maria im Kapitol, Cologne consecrated.
• 1066 - Church of San Martín de Tours de Frómista, Spain known.
• 1067
• * Jumièges Abbey church in Normandy consecrated in the presence of William the Conqueror.
• * First of the Kharraqan towers built in Qazvin, Seljukid Iran.
• * St. Gereon's church, Cologne begun.
• 1068 - William the Conqueror orders the construction of new motte-and-bailey castles in England at Warwick, Nottingham, Lincoln, Huntingdon, Cambridge and York.

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