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. Births Adela of Champagne, Queen of France Alan Fitz Walter, High Steward of Scotland Eliezer ben Joel HaLevi, German rabbi Deaths 12th-century architecture 1140s works