1260s in architecture explained

1250s ^. 1260s in architecture ^. 1270s
Architecture timeline

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Buildings and structures

Buildings

• 1260
  • Chartres Cathedral consecrated.^[1]
  • Grey Abbey, Kildare^[2]
• 1261
  • St German's Priory Church, Cornwall, consecrated.
  • Rebuilding of San Francesco, Pisa in Italy begun.^[3]
• 1262 – Saint-Urbain Basilica, Troyes, begun.^[4]
• 1263
  • Romanesque St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, consecrated.^[5]
  • Siena Cathedral completed (dome 1264).^[6]
• 1268 – Chennakesava Temple at Somanathapura in India (Hoysala Empire) built.^[7]
• 1269 – Fakr ad-Din Mosque in the Sultanate of Mogadishu^[8]

Births

• c. 1265 – Giotto di Bondone (died 1337)^[9]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Chartres Cathedral . Encyclopædia Britannica . 2 April 2018.
2. Book: Dodd . J. S. . The Traveller's Director Through Ireland: Being a Topographical Description ... of All the Roads ... Several Cities, Towns ... And an Epitome of the Ecclesiastical, Civil, Military and Natural History of Ireland, from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Years : Compiled from the Most Authentic Authorities . 1801 . J. Stockdale . 74 .
3. Book: Santoro . Nicholas Joseph . Mary in Our Life: Atlas of the Names and Titles of Mary, the Mother of Jesus, and Their Place in Marian Devotion . 2011 . iUniverse . 978-1-4620-4022-3 . 93 .
4. Book: Sutton, Ian . Architecture, from Ancient Greece to the Present . London . Thames & Hudson . 1999 . 978-0-500-20316-3 . registration .
5. Web site: Trip . Culture . 2017-04-04 . A Brief History of Vienna's St Stephen's Cathedral . 2022-04-12 . Culture Trip.
6. Gillerman . David M. . 1999 . Cosmopolitanism and Campanilismo: Gothic and Romanesque in the Siena Duomo Facade . The Art Bulletin . 81 . 3 . 437–455 . 10.2307/3051351 . 0004-3079.
7. Web site: Wright . Colin . Details of carvings, Prasanna Chenna Kesava Temple, Somnathpur . British Library . 2 April 2018.
8. Book: Jenkins . Everett Jr. . The Muslim Diaspora (Volume 1, 570–1500): A Comprehensive Chronology of the Spread of Islam in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas . 2010 . McFarland . 978-1-4766-0888-4 . 383 .
9. Web site: Artist Info . 2022-04-12 . www.nga.gov.