title: 1140s in architecture
text: # 1140s in architecture
  
  ## Buildings and structures
  
  ### Buildings
  
  * About 1140
     * Church of Santa Maria e San Donato in Murano, Republic of Venice completed.
     * Rudra Mahalaya Temple in Siddhpur, India, completed.
     * Church of St Mary and St David, Kilpeck, and first stone Church of St John the Evangelist, Shobdon, both by members of the Herefordshire School in England, built.
     * Great church of Cîteaux Abbey begun.
  * 1143 – In the Kingdom of Sicily
     * Trani Cathedral completed (except the campanile).
     * Mosaic decoration of Cappella Palatina in Palazzo dei Normanni, Palermo, partly completed.
  * 1144: June 11 – Basilica of St Denis near Paris in the Kingdom of France consecrated, the first Gothic church.
  * 1145 – Basilica of Sainte-Trinité, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, Normandy, consecrated.
  * 1147
     * Basilica of San Frediano in Lucca completed.
     * Saint-Pierre de Montmartre in Paris consecrated.
  * 1149 – Akebäck Church on Gotland is inaugurated.
  * 1149: July 15 – Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem consecrated after reconstruction.
  * Probable decade – Lyngsjö Church, Sweden, built.
  * Santi Maria e Donato, Murano (c. 1140)
  * SS Mary and David's Church, Kilpeck (c. 1140)
  * Basilica of St Denis (1144)
  * Basilica di San Frediano, Lucca (1147)
  * Saint Pierre, Montmartre (1147)
  
  ## Births
  
  * Adela of Champagne, Queen of France
  * Alan Fitz Walter, High Steward of Scotland
  * Eliezer ben Joel HaLevi, German rabbi
  