title: 1150s in architecture
text: # 1150s in architecture
  
  ## Buildings and structures
  
  ### Buildings
  
  * c. 1150
     * Roof lantern of Florence Baptistery constructed.
     * Romanesque church of Saint-Nectaire, Puy-de-Dôme, France built.
     * Fantoft Stave Church built at Fortun in Norway.
     * St Mary's parish church, Cholsey, England, substantially constructed.
  * c. 1150–1160
     * Church of St. Stephen at Marmoutier Abbey, Alsace, constructed.
     * Bisaldeo temple in Vigrahapura, Sapadalaksha, constructed.
  * 1151
     * Anping Bridge in China completed.
     * Restoration of St. George's Basilica, Prague, with twin towers, completed following siege damage in 1142.
     * Zamora Cathedral in Spain begun.
  * 1152 – Great St. Martin Church, Cologne begun.
  * 1153 – Pisa Baptistry in Italy begun by Diotisalvi.
  * 1155 – Basilica of San Michele Maggiore, Pavia, Italy completed. It is one of the best surviving examples of Lombard Romanesque architecture.
  * 1156 – In France:
     * Senlis Cathedral begun.
     * Reconstruction of Château de Chinon begun.
  * Murbach Abbey (1150)
  * Basilica of San Michele Maggiore, Pavia (1155)
  * St.-Nectaire church (c. 1150)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January 13, 1151 – Abbot Suger (b. c.1081), French abbot-statesmen and patron of Gothic architecture.
  