1180s in architecture

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• about 1180
• * Reconstruction of the nave and transept of St. Sernin's Basilica, Toulouse, France completed.
• * Reconstruction of St. Faith's Church, Sélestat, Alsace completed.
• * Construction of Borgund Stave Church, Norway, begun.
• * Färlöv Church, Sweden, built.
• * Moyse's Hall, Bury St Edmunds, England, built.
• 1181 - Worms Cathedral in Germany mostly finished.
• 1183 - Cathedral of Monreale, Sicily, built.
• 1184 - Modena Cathedral consecrated.
• by about 1185 - Construction of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, England as the church of the Priory of St Frideswide substantially completed.
• 1185
• * Reconstruction of Basle Cathedral begins.
• * Temple Church in London dedicated.
• * Pont Saint-Bénezet, a bridge in Avignon, in southern France, completed.
• 1189 - Rebuilding of Chengling Pagoda of Zhengding in Jin dynasty China is completed.
• 1186 - Ta Prohm temple built in Angkor.
• 1188
• * Ourense Cathedral in Galicia (Spain) consecrated.
• * Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, Portsmouth, England, consecrated.
• Main period of work on Dover Castle in England.
• New circular keep of Conisbrough Castle in Yorkshire, England, built by Hamelin de Warenne, Earl of Surrey.
• Reconstruction of Chichester Cathedral in England begins.