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Buildings

• 1240 – Construction begins of the Castel del Monte in Apulia, Italy, for Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor; used by Frederick primarily as a hunting lodge.¹
• 1242 – Heddal Stave Church in Norway consecrated, built in the first half of the 13th century.²³
• 1242 – Rebuilding of Peyrepertuse Castle in France to its current form begun.
• c.1245 – Rebuilding of Westminster Abbey begun.⁴
• 1246 – Lakshmi Narasimha Temple, Nuggehalli built in the Hoysala Empire.⁵
• 1247
  • Basilica of St. Cunibert, Cologne, consecrated.⁶
  • Inauguration of St. Mary's Church, Sigtuna, Sweden.⁷
  • Start of reconstruction of Bassac Abbey.⁸
  • Approximate start of construction of original Pagoda of Monk Wansong in Beijing.
• 1248
  • April 26 – Consecration of Sainte Chapelle, Paris.⁹
  • August 15 – The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral in Cologne is laid¹⁰ by Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden.
• 1249 – Sadasiva Temple, Nuggehalli built in the Hoysala Empire.¹¹

Births

Deaths

• 1245 – c. June: Elias of Dereham, English canon and building designer¹²

References

1. David Abulafia (1992) Frederick II: a medieval emperor pp 288. Oxford University Press US ISBN 0-19-508040-8 https://books.google.com/books?id=sgufggLomo8C&dq=Castel+del+Monte+begun&pg=PA288 ↩

2. "Heddal stave church | a divine building built by a troll | Norway". 2020-02-05. Retrieved 2022-04-11. https://talknorway.no/heddal-stave-church-a-divine-building-built-by-a-troll-norway/ ↩

3. "om-stavkirken-no | www.heddalstavkirke.no" (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2022-04-11. https://www.heddalstavkirke.no/om-stavkirken-no/ ↩

4. Sutton, Ian (1999). Architecture, from Ancient Greece to the Present. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-20316-3. 978-0-500-20316-3 ↩

5. Evans, Kirsti (1997). Epic narratives in the Hoysaḷa temples: the Rāmāyaṇa, Mahābhārata, and Bhāgavata Purāṇa in Haḷebīd, Belūr, and Amṛtapura. Brill. p. 258. ISBN 90-04-10575-1. 90-04-10575-1 ↩

6. Stead, Adam (2013). "Rebuilding St. Kunibert: Artistic Integration, Patronage, and Institutional Identities in Thirteenth-Century Cologne" (PDF). University of Toronto Library. Retrieved 11 April 2022. https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/70148/1/Stead_Adam_R_201311_PhD_thesis.pdf ↩

7. Viberg, Andreas; Wikström, A. (2011-01-01). "St. Mary's Dominican Convent in Sigtuna Revisited. Geophysical and archaeological investigations". Fornvännen. 106: 322–333. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261114078 ↩

8. "Unique Places in Poitou-Charentes - Off the Beaten Path - VirtualTourist". 2014-12-24. Archived from the original on 24 December 2014. Retrieved 2022-04-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20141224110359/http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/France/Poitou_Charentes/Off_the_Beaten_Path-Poitou_Charentes-MISC-BR-1.html ↩

9. Erlande-Brandenburg, Alain. "The Ste Chapelle (Paris-Buildings)". Grove Encyclopedia of Art. /wiki/Alain_Erlande-Brandenburg ↩

10. John Henry Parker (1846) A companion to the fourth ed. of A glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture pp 89. J.H. Parker https://books.google.com/books?id=jwoFAAAAYAAJ&dq=1248+%22Cologne+Cathedral%22&pg=PA89 ↩

11. Madhusudan A. Dhaky (1977) The Indian temple forms in Karṇātạ inscriptions and architecture pp 20. Abhinav Publications ISBN 81-7017-065-6 https://books.google.com/books?id=VyW32NwcMr4C&dq=1249+Sadasiva+temple&pg=PA20 ↩

12. Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (2004-09-23). "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. ref:odnb/37391. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37391. Retrieved 2022-04-11. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/37391 ↩