11th Century
| Building | Location | Earliest extant structure date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holy Trinity Church, | Colchester, Essex, England | 1020 | Oldest building in Colchester, which has an Anglo Saxon tower with an arrow head doorway. Burial place of William Gilbert and madrigal composer John Wilbye. Grade 1 listed building. |
| St Michael at the North Gate | Oxford, England | 1040 | The tower dates from 1040. Oxford's oldest building. |
| St.Chads Church | Stafford, Staffordshire, England | 1050 | |
| Exeter Cathedral | Exeter, England | 1050 | Historians suggest that this could be even earlier, i.e. c. AD 690 |
| Chepstow Castle | Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales | 1067 | |
| Norwich Castle | Norwich, East Anglia, England | 1067 | |
| Lincoln Castle | Lincoln | 1068 (completed) | |
| Canterbury Cathedral | Canterbury, Kent, England | 1070 | Founded in 597 |
| Richmond Castle | Richmond, North Yorkshire, England | Constructed from 1071 | |
| Lincoln Cathedral | Lincoln | 1072 | Largely destroyed by an earthquake in 1185, after which it was rebuilt. Parts of the West-End remain of the original. |
| Tower of London | London, England | 1078 | |
| Hereford Cathedral | Hereford, England | 1079 | |
| Rochester Cathedral | Rochester, Kent, England | 1080 | Gundulf's tower and the core of the nave piers. |
| Ely Cathedral | Ely, Cambridgeshire, England | 1083 | |
| Shrewsbury Abbey | Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England | 1083 | |
| St Albans Cathedral | St Albans, Hertfordshire, England | 1089 | |
| St Nicholas Church | Iford, East Sussex, England | c. 1090 | |
| Durham Cathedral | Durham, England | 1093 | |
| Winchester Cathedral | Winchester, Hampshire, England | 1093 | |
| Norwich Cathedral | Norwich, Norfolk, England | 1096 | |
| Westminster Hall | City of Westminster, England | 1097 | Oldest existing part of the Palace of Westminster. The roof was probably originally supported by pillars, giving three aisles, but during the reign of King Richard II, this was replaced by a hammerbeam roof. |
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