1280s in architecture

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• 1280
• The Piazza del Campo at Siena, Italy is begun (completed in 1350).
• Durham Cathedral (in Durham, England) is completed (begun in 1093).
• The second Doorwerth Castle, rebuilt of stone, on the Rhine near Arnhem, is again besieged, and this time the bailey is burned down.
• At the site of present-day Sheffield Cathedral in England, a second parish church is completed, but is mostly demolished and rebuilt about 1430 on a cruciform floor plan.{{Cite web |title=Cathedral Timeline |url=https://www.sheffieldcathedral.org/cathedral-timeline |access-date=2022-04-12 |website=Sheffield Cathedral |language=en-GB}}
• Spire of St Wulfram's Church, Grantham, England, is begun.
• Cressing Temple Wheat Barn in eastern England erected by about this date.{{Cite web |title=THE WHEAT BARN, 35 METRES NORTH EAST OF CRESSING TEMPLE FARMHOUSE, Cressing - 1123866 {{!}} Historic England |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1123866 |access-date=2022-04-12 |website=historicengland.org.uk |language=en}}
• 1281 – The Basilica de Sant Francesc is built in Palma, Majorca, on a site where the Moors made soap.
• 1282
• In Naples, Italy, original construction of Castel Nuovo (Italian: "New Castle") is completed (begun in 1279); it has been expanded or renovated several times since.{{Cite web |last=Vincenzo |date=2019-02-12 |title=Castel Nuovo: History and Secrets of a Medieval Fortress |url=https://www.leisure-italy.com/travel-tips/castel-nuovo/ |access-date=2022-04-12 |website=Leisure Italy |language=en-GB}}
• Albi Cathedral in Languedoc is 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}}
• 1283 – Construction of Caernarfon, Conwy and Harlech Castles in Gwynedd, North Wales, is begun by King Edward I of England.
• 1284 – Construction of Beauvais Cathedral is interrupted by a partial collapse of the choir.{{Cite web |last=Hong |first=Seong-Woo |date=2004 |title=The Analysis on the Collapse of the Tallest Gothic Cathedral |url=https://global.ctbuh.org/resources/papers/download/1748-the-analysis-on-the-collapse-of-the-tallest-gothic-cathedral.pdf#:~:text=There%20are%20different%20theories%20concerning,failure%20of%20some%20external%20buttresses. |access-date=12 April 2022 |website=The Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitats}}
• 1285 – Regensburg Cathedral is redesigned in Gothic style.{{Cite web |date=16 July 2006 |title=World Heritage Scanned Nomination |url=https://whc.unesco.org/uploads/nominations/1155.pdf |url-status=live |access-date=12 April 2022 |website=UNESCO World Heritage|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160104173558/http://whc.unesco.org/uploads/nominations/1155.pdf |archive-date=2016-01-04 }}
• 1289
• Construction of Conwy Castle, ordered by King Edward I of England, is completed in North Wales.
• Construction of the Belaya Vezha tower in Belarus is completed.{{Cite web |last=Devotor |first=Mr |date=2016-02-23 |title=The Tower of Kamyenyets - Charismatic Planet |url=https://www.charismaticplanet.com/the-tower-of-kamyenyets/ |access-date=2022-04-12 |language=en-US}}
• Dedication of Santa Maria di Collemaggio on the edge of L'Aquila.{{Cite book |last=Guruge |first=Anura |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B5JVthemvvwC&dq=santa+maria+di+collemaggio+consecration&pg=PA166 |title=The Next Pope |date=2010-02-16 |publisher=Anura Guruge |isbn=978-0-615-35372-2 |language=en}}
• Pope Nicholas IV formally constitutes the University of Montpellier in France by papal bull, combining various existing schools under the mantle of a single university.{{Cite web |title=Histoire de l'Université |url=https://www.umontpellier.fr/universite/histoire-de-luniversite |access-date=2022-04-12 |website=Université de Montpellier |language=fr-FR |archive-date=2022-08-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811051540/https://www.umontpellier.fr/universite/histoire-de-luniversite |url-status=dead }}

• c. 1285 – Agostino da Siena, Italian architect and sculptor (died c. 1347)

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