1080s in architecture
# 1080s in architecture

## Buildings and structures

### Buildings

* 1080
   * Rebuilding of Basilica of St. Sernin, Toulouse begun.
   * Construction of Cluny Abbey III in France, begun.
* 1081
   * Surviving Chora Church in Constantinople completed (begun in 1077).
   * Aljafería Palace in Zaragoza, Spain completed (begun in 1065).
   * Old Mainz Cathedral destroyed by a fire, marking the beginning of the construction of the building which survives to the modern day.
* 1082 – Great Mosque of Tlemcen built in the Almoravid Empire.
* 1083 – Surviving Ely Cathedral in England begun.
* 1086 – Shwezigon Pagoda in Nyaung-U completed.
* before 1087 – Construction of the Church of Christ Pantepoptes in Constantinople begun.
* 1087
   * White Tower (Tower of London) in England finished (begun in 1078).
   * Basilica di San Nicola in Bari, Apulia, begun.
* 1088
   * Rebuilding of Cluny Abbey in France begun.
   * Eynsford Castle in England built.
* 1089 – Romanesque stage of St Albans Cathedral in England completed.
* Chora Church (1081)
* Romanesque Mainz Cathedral (begun 1081)
* Aljaferia Palace of Zaragoza (1081)
* Great Mosque of Tlemcen (1082)
* Church of Christ Pantepoptes (begun before 1087)
* White Tower of London (1087)
* St Albans Cathedral (1089)

## Births

* c. 1081 – Abbot Suger (died 1151), French abbot-statesman and patron of Gothic architecture.
