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Materials > Brick
Clay or clay products formed into a rectangular block and hardened by drying in the sun or firing in a kiln.
late 1420s
1136
c. 310 C.E.
consecrated 379 C.E., present structure c. 1080–1200
18th century
1885–91; south addition 1891–93
c. 1864–1900
begun c. 526–527
begun c. 526–27, consecrated 547, with later restorations
540s
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