1240s in architecture
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Buildings and structures
[edit]Buildings
[edit]- 1240 – Construction begins of the Castel del Monte in Apulia, Italy, for Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor; used by Frederick primarily as a hunting lodge.[1]
- 1242 – Heddal Stave Church in Norway consecrated, built in the first half of the 13th century.[2][3]
- 1242 – Rebuilding of Peyrepertuse Castle in France to its current form begun.[citation needed]
- c.1245 – Rebuilding of Westminster Abbey begun.[4]
- 1246 – Lakshmi Narasimha Temple, Nuggehalli built in the Hoysala Empire.[5]
- 1247
- Basilica of St. Cunibert, Cologne, consecrated.[6]
- Inauguration of St. Mary's Church, Sigtuna, Sweden.[7]
- Start of reconstruction of Bassac Abbey.[8]
- Approximate start of construction of original Pagoda of Monk Wansong in Beijing.
- 1248
- April 26 – Consecration of Sainte Chapelle, Paris.[9]
- August 15 – The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral in Cologne is laid[10] by Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden.
- 1249 – Sadasiva Temple, Nuggehalli built in the Hoysala Empire.[11]
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Great Mosque of Djenné (begun 1240) -
Peyrepertuse Castle (1242) -
Lakshmi Narasimha Temple, Nuggehalli (1246) -
Sadasiva Temple, Nuggehalli (1249)
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Births
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Deaths
[edit]- 1245 – c. June: Elias of Dereham, English canon and building designer[12]
References
[edit]- ^ David Abulafia (1992) Frederick II: a medieval emperor pp 288. Oxford University Press US ISBN 0-19-508040-8
- ^ "Heddal stave church | a divine building built by a troll | Norway". 2020-02-05. Retrieved 2022-04-11.
- ^ "om-stavkirken-no | www.heddalstavkirke.no" (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2022-04-11.
- ^ Sutton, Ian (1999). Architecture, from Ancient Greece to the Present. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-20316-3.
- ^ Evans, Kirsti (1997). Epic narratives in the Hoysaḷa temples: the Rāmāyaṇa, Mahābhārata, and Bhāgavata Purāṇa in Haḷebīd, Belūr, and Amṛtapura. Brill. p. 258. ISBN 90-04-10575-1.
- ^ Stead, Adam (2013). "Rebuilding St. Kunibert: Artistic Integration, Patronage, and Institutional Identities in Thirteenth-Century Cologne" (PDF). University of Toronto Library. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
- ^ Viberg, Andreas; Wikström, A. (2011-01-01). "St. Mary's Dominican Convent in Sigtuna Revisited. Geophysical and archaeological investigations". Fornvännen. 106: 322–333.
- ^ "Unique Places in Poitou-Charentes - Off the Beaten Path - VirtualTourist". 2014-12-24. Archived from the original on 24 December 2014. Retrieved 2022-04-11.
- ^ Erlande-Brandenburg, Alain. "The Ste Chapelle (Paris-Buildings)". Grove Encyclopedia of Art.
- ^ John Henry Parker (1846) A companion to the fourth ed. of A glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture pp 89. J.H. Parker
- ^ Madhusudan A. Dhaky (1977) The Indian temple forms in Karṇātạ inscriptions and architecture pp 20. Abhinav Publications ISBN 81-7017-065-6
- ^ Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (2004-09-23). "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. ref:odnb/37391. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37391. Retrieved 2022-04-11. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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