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Buildings

• c. 1250
  • Western towers and north rose window of Notre Dame de Paris in the Kingdom of France are built.¹
  • Hexham Abbey, England completed (begun c. 1170).
  • Konark Sun Temple in Odisha built.²
• 1250
  • Château de Spesbourg, Holy Roman Empire built.³
  • Ponts Couverts, Strasbourg, opened.⁴
• 1252 – Church of Alcobaça Monastery in Portugal completed.⁵
• c. 1252 – The Franciscan abbey of Claregalway Friary, in Claregalway, County Galway, Ireland is commissioned by Norman knight John de Cogan.⁶
• 1253 – Construction of the upper Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi in Assisi, designed by Elia Bombardone, is completed.
• 1255 – New Gothic choir of the Tournai Cathedral in the Kingdom of France built.⁷
• 1256 – Construction of Hermann Castle in present-day Estonia is started.⁸
• 1257 – Construction of the Basilica di Santa Chiara in Assisi begun.⁹
• 1258 – The main body of the Salisbury Cathedral (begun in 1220) in Salisbury, England, is completed.¹⁰

Births

• c. 1250 Giovanni Pisano, Italian sculptor, painter, and architect (d. c. 1315)¹¹

Deaths

• none listed

References

1. Chelles, Jean de; DigitalGeorgetown (1981). "Notre Dame Cathedral North Rose Window". DigitalGeorgetown. Retrieved 2022-04-11. https://repository.digital.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/554233 ↩

2. "Konark | India | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2022-04-11. https://www.britannica.com/place/Konark ↩

3. "Castles and Monuments of the Northern Part of the Alsatian Wineroad of the Lower-Rhine (67)". 2008-09-14. Archived from the original on 14 September 2008. Retrieved 2022-04-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20080914033357/http://www.alsace-route-des-vins.com/NewVersion/index.cfm?fuseaction=AutrePage.Home&ID=24&Language=En ↩

4. "Ponts couverts (Strasbourg, 1250)". Structurae (in French). Retrieved 2022-04-11. https://structurae.net/fr/ouvrages/ponts-couverts ↩

5. "Alcobaça Monastery | Alcobaça | Portugal | AFAR". www.afar.com. 2021-04-20. Retrieved 2022-04-12. https://www.afar.com/places/alcobaca-monastery-alcobaca ↩

6. "Claregalway Franciscan Friary | Monastic Ireland". Retrieved 2022-04-11. http://monastic.ie/history/claregalway-franciscan-friary/ ↩

7. "Tournai Cathedral (Belgium) No 1009". UNESCO World Heritage Convention. 6 July 1999. Archived from the original on 2017-02-08. Retrieved 11 April 2022. https://whc.unesco.org/document/151523 ↩

8. Grooss, Poul (2017). The Naval War in the Baltic 1939 -1945. Seaforth Publishing. p. 207. ISBN 9781526700032. 9781526700032 ↩

9. cie, G. Massiot &. "Church and Convent of Santa Chiara: Overall view of facade with flying buttress". curate.nd.edu. Retrieved 2022-04-12. https://curate.nd.edu/show/rv042r39x1v ↩

10. "Engineering Timelines - Salisbury Cathedral spire". www.engineering-timelines.com. Retrieved 2022-04-12. http://www.engineering-timelines.com/scripts/engineeringItem.asp?id=113#:~:text=Salisbury%20Cathedral%20was%20built%20between,was%20constructed%20a%20little%20later. ↩

11. "Giovanni Pisano | Italian sculptor | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2022-04-12. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giovanni-Pisano ↩