1240s in architecture

• 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.[https://books.google.com/books?id=sgufggLomo8C&dq=Castel+del+Monte+begun&pg=PA288 David Abulafia (1992) Frederick II: a medieval emperor] pp 288. Oxford University Press US {{ISBN|0-19-508040-8}}
• 1242 – Heddal Stave Church in Norway consecrated, built in the first half of the 13th century.{{Cite web |date=2020-02-05 |title=Heddal stave church {{!}} a divine building built by a troll {{!}} Norway |url=https://talknorway.no/heddal-stave-church-a-divine-building-built-by-a-troll-norway/ |access-date=2022-04-11 |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |title=om-stavkirken-no {{!}} www.heddalstavkirke.no |url=https://www.heddalstavkirke.no/om-stavkirken-no/ |access-date=2022-04-11 |language=nb-NO}}
• 1242 – Rebuilding of Peyrepertuse Castle in France to its current form begun.{{Citation needed|date=July 2010}}
• c.1245 – Rebuilding of Westminster Abbey begun.{{cite book|first=Ian|last=Sutton|title=Architecture, from Ancient Greece to the Present|location=London|publisher=Thames & Hudson|year=1999|isbn=978-0-500-20316-3|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/westernarchitect00sutt}}
• 1246 – Lakshmi Narasimha Temple, Nuggehalli built in the Hoysala Empire.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v-0yalYlNDkC&dq=1246%20Lakshmi%20Narasimha%20temple&pg=PA258|first=Kirsti|last=Evans|year=1997|title=Epic narratives in the Hoysaḷa temples: the Rāmāyaṇa, Mahābhārata, and Bhāgavata Purāṇa in Haḷebīd, Belūr, and Amṛtapura|pages=258|publisher=Brill|isbn=90-04-10575-1}}
• 1247
• Basilica of St. Cunibert, Cologne, consecrated.{{Cite web |last=Stead |first=Adam |date=2013 |title=Rebuilding St. Kunibert: Artistic Integration, Patronage, and Institutional Identities in Thirteenth-Century Cologne |url=https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/70148/1/Stead_Adam_R_201311_PhD_thesis.pdf|access-date=11 April 2022 |website=University of Toronto Library}}
• Inauguration of St. Mary's Church, Sigtuna, Sweden.{{Cite journal |last1=Viberg |first1=Andreas |last2=Wikström |first2=A. |date=2011-01-01 |title=St. Mary's Dominican Convent in Sigtuna Revisited. Geophysical and archaeological investigations. |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261114078 |journal=Fornvännen |volume=106 |pages=322–333}}
• Start of reconstruction of Bassac Abbey.{{Cite web |date=2014-12-24 |title=Unique Places in Poitou-Charentes - Off the Beaten Path - VirtualTourist |url=http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/France/Poitou_Charentes/Off_the_Beaten_Path-Poitou_Charentes-MISC-BR-1.html |access-date=2022-04-11 |website= |archive-url=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 |archive-date=24 December 2014 |url-status=dead}}
• Approximate start of construction of original Pagoda of Monk Wansong in Beijing.
• 1248
• April 26 – Consecration of Sainte Chapelle, Paris.{{cite book|first=Alain|last=Erlande-Brandenburg|chapter=The Ste Chapelle (Paris-Buildings)|title=Grove Encyclopedia of Art|author-link=Alain Erlande-Brandenburg}}
• August 15 – The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral in Cologne is laid[https://books.google.com/books?id=jwoFAAAAYAAJ&dq=1248+%22Cologne+Cathedral%22&pg=PA89 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 by Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden.
• 1249 – Sadasiva Temple, Nuggehalli built in the Hoysala Empire.[https://books.google.com/books?id=VyW32NwcMr4C&dq=1249+Sadasiva+temple&pg=PA20 Madhusudan A. Dhaky (1977) The Indian temple forms in Karṇātạ inscriptions and architecture] pp 20. Abhinav Publications {{ISBN|81-7017-065-6}}

Great Mosque of Djenné 1.jpg|Great Mosque of Djenné (begun 1240)

Château de Peyrepertuse (face nord).JPG|Peyrepertuse Castle (1242)

Lakshminarasimha Temple at Nuggihalli.jpg|Lakshmi Narasimha Temple, Nuggehalli (1246)

Close up of the vimana in Sadashiva Temple at Nuggehalli.jpg|Sadasiva Temple, Nuggehalli (1249)

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• 1245 – c. June: Elias of Dereham, English canon and building designer{{Cite ODNB |title=The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |date=2004-09-23 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/37391 |pages=ref:odnb/37391 |editor-last=Matthew |editor-first=H. C. G. |place=Oxford |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/37391 |access-date=2022-04-11 |editor2-last=Harrison |editor2-first=B.}}

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