1140s in architecture
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Buildings and structures
Buildings
- About 1140
- Church of Santa Maria e San Donato in Murano, Republic of Venice completed.
- Rudra Mahalaya Temple in Siddhpur, India, completed.
- Church of St Mary and St David, Kilpeck, and first stone Church of St John the Evangelist, Shobdon, both by members of the Herefordshire School in England, built.
- Great church of Cîteaux Abbey begun.
- 1143 – In the Kingdom of Sicily
- Trani Cathedral completed (except the campanile).
- Mosaic decoration of Cappella Palatina in Palazzo dei Normanni, Palermo, partly completed.
- 1144: June 11 – Basilica of St Denis near Paris in the Kingdom of France consecrated, the first Gothic church.
- 1145 – Basilica of Sainte-Trinité, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, Normandy, consecrated.
- 1147
- Basilica of San Frediano in Lucca completed.
- Saint-Pierre de Montmartre in Paris consecrated.
- 1149 – Akebäck Church on Gotland is inaugurated.
- 1149: July 15 – Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem consecrated after reconstruction.[1]
- Probable decade – Lyngsjö Church, Sweden, built.
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Santi Maria e Donato, Murano (c. 1140) -
SS Mary and David's Church, Kilpeck (c. 1140) -
Basilica of St Denis (1144) -
Basilica di San Frediano, Lucca (1147) -
Saint Pierre, Montmartre (1147)
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Births
- Adela of Champagne, Queen of France
- Alan Fitz Walter, High Steward of Scotland
- Eliezer ben Joel HaLevi, German rabbi
Deaths
References
- ^ Paul, Nicholas; Yeager, Suzanne (2 April 2012). Remembering the Crusades: Myth, Image, and Identity. JHU Press. p. 127. ISBN 978-1-4214-0425-7.