1240s in architecture

none May 2010 __TOC__ 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.David Abulafia (1992) Frederick II: a medieval emperor pp 288. Oxford University Press US 0-19-508040-8 1241 – Cloister of the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome completed.Brigitte Hinzen-Bohlen Art & Architecture - Rome 2001 1242 – Heddal Stave Church in Norway consecrated, built in the first half of the 13th century.2020-02-05 Heddal stave church a divine building built by a troll Norway https://talknorway.no/heddal-stave-church-a-divine-building-built-by-a-troll-norway/ 2022-04-11 en-GBom-stavkirken-no www.heddalstavkirke.no https://www.heddalstavkirke.no/om-stavkirken-no/ 2022-04-11 nb-NO 1242 – Rebuilding of Peyrepertuse Castle in France to its current form begun.July 2010 c.1245 – Rebuilding of Westminster Abbey begun.Ian Sutton Architecture, from Ancient Greece to the Present London Thames & Hudson 1999 978-0-500-20316-3 registration https://archive.org/details/westernarchitect00sutt 1246 – Lakshmi Narasimha Temple, Nuggehalli built in the Hoysala Empire.https://books.google.com/books?id=v-0yalYlNDkC&dq=1246%20Lakshmi%20Narasimha%20temple&pg=PA258 Kirsti Evans 1997 Epic narratives in the Hoysaḷa temples: the Rāmāyaṇa, Mahābhārata, and Bhāgavata Purāṇa in Haḷebīd, Belūr, and Amṛtapura 258 Brill 90-04-10575-1 1247 Basilica of St. Cunibert, Cologne, consecrated.Stead Adam 2013 Rebuilding St. Kunibert: Artistic Integration, Patronage, and Institutional Identities in Thirteenth-Century Cologne https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/70148/1/Stead_Adam_R_201311_PhD_thesis.pdf 11 April 2022 University of Toronto Library Inauguration of St. Mary's Church, Sigtuna, Sweden.Viberg Andreas Wikström A. 2011-01-01 St. Mary's Dominican Convent in Sigtuna Revisited. Geophysical and archaeological investigations. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261114078 Fornvännen 106 322–333 Start of reconstruction of Bassac Abbey.2014-12-24 Unique Places in Poitou-Charentes - Off the Beaten Path - VirtualTourist http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/France/Poitou_Charentes/Off_the_Beaten_Path-Poitou_Charentes-MISC-BR-1.html 2022-04-11 https://web.archive.org/web/20141224110359/http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/France/Poitou_Charentes/Off_the_Beaten_Path-Poitou_Charentes-MISC-BR-1.html 24 December 2014 dead Approximate start of construction of original Pagoda of Monk Wansong in Beijing. 1248 April 26 – Consecration of Sainte Chapelle, Paris.Alain Erlande-Brandenburg The Ste Chapelle (Paris-Buildings) Grove Encyclopedia of Art Alain Erlande-Brandenburg August 15 – The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral in Cologne is laidJohn 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 by Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden. 1249 – Sadasiva Temple, Nuggehalli built in the Hoysala Empire.Madhusudan A. Dhaky (1977) The Indian temple forms in Karṇātạ inscriptions and architecture pp 20. Abhinav Publications 81-7017-065-6 Deaths 1245 – c. June: Elias of Dereham, English canon and building designerThe Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004-09-23 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/37391 ref:odnb/37391 Matthew H. C. G. Oxford 10.1093/ref:odnb/37391 2022-04-11 Harrison B. References * Architecture Category:Indian architectural history