1130s in architecture

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• 1130
  • Construction of Abbaye aux Dames, Caen, Normandy, completed (begun in 1062).
  • Canterbury Cathedral, England, consecrated.
  • Rochester Cathedral, England, consecrated.
  • New west front of Église Notre-Dame la Grande, Poitiers, begun.
• about 1130
  • Keep of Hedingham Castle, England, begun.
  • Urnes Stave Church built in Norway.
• 1131 – Cathedral of Cefalù begun.
• 1132
  • San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro, Pavia, consecrated.
  • San Giovanni degli Eremiti in Palermo, Norman Kingdom of Sicily built.
  • Fountains Abbey begun in England
• 1133
  • Rebuilding of Clairvaux Abbey begun.
  • Construction of Angkor Wat begun.
  • San Sisto, Pisa, Italy, consecrated.
• 1135
  • Basilica di San Zeno in Verona, Italy, rebuilt to its current form.
  • Nave vault of Durham Cathedral, England, completed.
• 1136
  • Glasgow Cathedral in Scotland consecrated.
  • Work begins on the narthex of the Basilique Saint-Denis in Saint-Denis, France.
  • Reconstruction of the Great Mosque of Tlemcen in Almoravid Algeria
• 1138 – San Paolo a Ripa d'Arno in Pisa, Italy, rebuilt to its current form.
• 1139
  • Verona Cathedral begun.
  • Fontenay Abbey begun.
• about 1139 – Construction of Castle Rising in Norfolk, England, begins.

• Urnes Stave Church ( about 1130)
  Urnes Stave Church ( about 1130)
• Abbaye aux Dames, Caen (1130)
  Abbaye aux Dames, Caen (1130)
• Rochester Cathedral (1130)
  Rochester Cathedral (1130)
• San Giovanni degli Eremiti, Palermo (1132)
  San Giovanni degli Eremiti, Palermo (1132)
• San Sisto, Pisa (1133)
  San Sisto, Pisa (1133)
• Basilica di San Zeno, Verona (1135)
  Basilica di San Zeno, Verona (1135)
• San Paolo a Ripa d'Arno, Pisa (1138)
  San Paolo a Ripa d'Arno, Pisa (1138)