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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.Paul Nicholas Yeager Suzanne Remembering the Crusades: Myth, Image, and Identity 2 April 2012 JHU Press 978-1-4214-0425-7 127 https://books.google.com/books?id=gcxJWdTGSIgC&pg=PA127 en
Probable decade – Lyngsjö Church, Sweden, built.
Births
Adela of Champagne, Queen of France
Alan Fitz Walter, High Steward of Scotland
Eliezer ben Joel HaLevi, German rabbi
Deaths
References
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