1080s in architecture

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.

Births

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