1220s in architecture
Buildings and structures
Buildings
- Early 1220s – Chlemoutsi Crusader castle in Greece is built.
- 1220
- Bishop Evrard de Fouilly initiates work on Amiens Cathedral, in Amiens, France, with Robert de Luzarches serving as architect until 1228.[1]
- Brussels Cathedral begun.
- Salisbury Cathedral begun in England.[1]
- Cluny Abbey's 3rd building campaign, initiated in 1080, is over. It is the world's largest religious building until the 16th century.
- Upper three storeys of Qutb Minar in the Delhi Sultanate added.
- c.1220
- Beauvais Cathedral begun.
- Château de Coucy begun.
- Gawdawpalin Temple finished in Bagan, Pagan Kingdom.
- Cressing Temple Barley Barn in eastern England erected.
- 1221 – Burgos Cathedral begun.
- 1222 – Great Hall of Winchester Castle begun.[1]
- 1227
- Marienstatt Abbey church consecrated.
- Toledo Cathedral begun.
- Reconstruction of Toompea Castle begun.
- 1228
- 1229 – Beverston Castle is completed.
Gawdawpalin Temple, Bagan (c. 1220)
Cluny III Abbey reconstruction (1220)
gollark: Tradition is *a* reason to think something might be better, but a fairly weak one, since the people of the past had rather different values, and not tools like computer simulations or more recent mathematical analyses of voting systems.
gollark: Also, yes, the context is quite different so reasons from then may not apply.
gollark: It's also possible that more complex systems may have been impractical before computers came along, although that doesn't apply to, say, approval voting.
gollark: First-past-the-post is the simplest and most obvious thing you're likely to imagine if you want people to "vote for things", and it's entirely possible people didn't look too hard.
gollark: I don't know if the people designing electoral systems actually did think of voting systems which are popular now and discard them, but it's not *that* much of a reason to not adopt new ones.
References
- Sutton, Ian (1999). Architecture, from Ancient Greece to the Present. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-20316-3.
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