1080s in architecture

Buildings

• 1080
  • Rebuilding of Basilica of St. Sernin, Toulouse begun.
  • Construction of Cluny Abbey III in France, begun.
• 1081
  • Surviving Chora Church in Constantinople completed (begun in 1077).
  • Aljafería Palace in Zaragoza, Spain completed (begun in 1065).
  • Old Mainz Cathedral destroyed by a fire, marking the beginning of the construction of the building which survives to the modern day.
• 1082 - Great Mosque of Tlemcen built in the Almoravid Empire.
• 1083 - Surviving Ely Cathedral in England begun.
• 1086 - Shwezigon Pagoda in Nyaung-U completed.
• before 1087 - Construction of the Church of Christ Pantepoptes in Constantinople begun.
• 1087
  • White Tower (Tower of London) in England finished (begun in 1078).
  • Basilica di San Nicola in Bari, Apulia, begun.
• 1088
  • Rebuilding of Cluny Abbey in France begun.
  • Eynsford Castle in England built.
• 1089 - Romanesque stage of St Albans Cathedral in England completed.

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  Chora Church (1081)
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  Romanesque Mainz Cathedral (begun 1081)
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  Aljaferia Palace of Zaragoza (1081)
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  Great Mosque of Tlemcen (1082)
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  Church of Christ Pantepoptes (begun before 1087)
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  White Tower of London (1087)
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  St Albans Cathedral (1089)

Births

• c. 1081 - Abbot Suger (died 1151), French abbot-statesman and patron of Gothic architecture.