1240s in architecture

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• 1240s in architecture
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Other topics in 1240s:

• Art
• Music

Architecture timeline

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• 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)
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  Peyrepertuse Castle (1242)
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  Lakshmi Narasimha Temple, Nuggehalli (1246)
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  Sadasiva Temple, Nuggehalli (1249)

Deaths

• 1245 – c. June: Elias of Dereham, English canon and building designer ^[12]

References

1. David Abulafia (1992) Frederick II: a medieval emperor pp 288. Oxford University Press US ISBN   0-19-508040-8
2. "Heddal stave church | a divine building built by a troll | Norway". 2020-02-05. Retrieved 2022-04-11.
3. "om-stavkirken-no | www.heddalstavkirke.no" (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2022-04-11.
4. Sutton, Ian (1999). Architecture, from Ancient Greece to the Present . London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN   978-0-500-20316-3.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Viberg, Andreas; Wikström, A. (2011-01-01). "St. Mary's Dominican Convent in Sigtuna Revisited. Geophysical and archaeological investigations". Fornvännen. 106: 322–333.
8. "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.
9. Erlande-Brandenburg, Alain. "The Ste Chapelle (Paris-Buildings)". Grove Encyclopedia of Art.
10. 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
11. Madhusudan A. Dhaky (1977) The Indian temple forms in Karṇātạ inscriptions and architecture pp 20. Abhinav Publications ISBN   81-7017-065-6
12. 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, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)