1130s in architecture

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• 1130
• * Construction of Abbaye aux Dames, Caen, Normandy, completed.
• * 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.
• * 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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