1230s in architecture

1220s ^. 1230s in architecture ^. 1240s

Architecture timeline

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• 1230
  • Santa Maria della Spina, Pisa, Italy built[1]
  • Ponte Vella at Ourense in Galicia (Spain) rebuilt on Roman foundations
  • Luna Vasahi of the Dilwara Temples in India built
  • Church of the Jacobins in Toulouse is begun
• 1234
  • Aqsab Mosque, Damascus, Syria built[2]
  • Saint-Martin Church, Colmar begun[3]
• 1235
  • Limburg Cathedral in the Holy Roman Empire consecrated[4]
  • Great Hall of Winchester Castle in England completed to a "double cube" design[5]
  • Approximate date – Saint-Léger of Guebwiller in the Holy Roman Empire is completed[6]
• 1238
  • Construction of the Alhambra in Grenada begins;[7] it is said that each sovereign of the dynasty of the Nasrides brings a stone to the edifice, and by the end of the Reconquista in 1492, the latest refinements to the palace will have been completed
  • Torre dei Conti built in Rome[8]
• 1239 – St. Mark Basilica of Heraklion, Venetian Crete, built[9]

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  Santa Maria della Spina, Pisa (1230)
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  Luna Vasahi, Dilwara (1230)
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  Saint-Léger of Guebwiller (1235)
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  Limburg Cathedral (1235)
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  Torre dei Conti, Rome (1238)
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  St. Mark Basilica of Heraklion (1239)

References

1. Woods, Joseph (1828). Letters of an architect, from France, Italy, and Greece. 2. Arch. p. 397.
2. Reference, Marshall Cavendish. Illustrated Dictionary of the Muslim World. Marshall Cavendish. p. 147. ISBN 978-0-7614-7929-1.
3. Catholic Church. Diocese of Basel (Switzerland) (1867). Monuments de l'histoire de l'ancien évêché de Bale: recueillis et publiés par ordre du Conseil-exécutif de la République de Berne. 5. Chez Victor Michel. p. 85.
4. Cichy, Bodo (1964). The great ages of architecture: from ancient Greece to the present day. Putnam. p. 210.
5. Ross, David. "Winchester Castle". Britain Express. Retrieved 2015-03-06.
6. Société pour la conservation des monuments historiques d'Alsace (1865), Bulletin, 3–4, Berger-Levrault, p. 63
7. Schlecht, Neil (2007). Spain for Dummies. For Dummies. p. 473. ISBN 0-470-10573-9.
8. Ramacci, Sabrina. 1001 cose da vedere a Roma almeno una volta nella vita (in Italian). Newton Compton Editori. p. 751. ISBN 978-88-541-7022-3.
9. Bowman, John Stewart (1969). Crete; travelers' guide. Bobbs-Merrill Co. p. 137.