The Cathedrals of Northern Spain: Their History and Their Architecture; Together with Much of Interest Concerning the Bishops, Rulers and Other Personages Identified with ThemRudy, Charles
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The Cathedrals of Northern Spain: Their History and Their Architecture; Together with Much of Interest Concerning the Bishops, Rulers and Other Personages Identified with Them
Rudy, Charles
Cathedrals -- Spain
Nave, 33 feet wide, 190 feet long, 60 feet high.
Aisles, 20 feet wide, 180 feet long, 40 feet high.
Thickness of walls, 10 feet.
Part of cathedral demolished to make room for new in 1513.
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Chief attractions: Cimborio, central apsidal chapel, and retablo.
NEW CATHEDRAL
Dedicated to the Mother and Saviour.
Begun in 1513; not completed until XVIIIth century.
Originally Late Gothic building. Plateresque, Herrera and grotesque
additions.
Compare churches of Valladolid and Segovia.
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Rectangular in shape; 378 feet long, 181 feet wide.
Height of nave, 130 feet; that of aisles, 88 feet.
Width of nave, 50 feet; of aisles, 37 feet.
Length (and width) of chapels, 28 feet; height, 54 feet.
Height of tower, 320 feet.
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Chief attractions: Western façade, decorative wealth, ensemble.
SANTANDER
See dedicated to San Emeterio, martyr, and to the Virgin.
Monastical church of San Emeterio raised to collegiate in XIIIth
century.
Bishopric erected in 1775.
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Cathedral church built in XIIIth century.
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Chief attraction: Crypt, fount.
SANTIAGO
See dedicated to St. James, patron saint of Spain.
Bishopric erected previous to 842; first bishop, Sisnando.
Archbishopric erected XIIth century; first archbishop, Diego Galmirez.
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Cathedral church begun, 1078; terminated, 1211.
XIIth century Romanesque building.
Exterior suffered grotesque and plateresque repairs, XVIIth century.
Cloister dates from 1530.
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Length, 305 feet; width (at transept), 204 feet.
Height of nave, 78 feet; of aisles, 23 feet; of cupola, 107 feet; of
tower (de la Trinidad), 260 feet; of western towers, 227 feet.
Length of each side of cloister, 114 feet; width, 19 feet.
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Chief attractions: The ensemble (interior), Portico de la Gloria, crypt,
cloister, southern portal.
SANTO DOMINGO DE LA CALZADA
See dedicated to Santo Domingo de la Calzada.
Bishopric dates from 1227.
Compare Calahorra.
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Cathedral church begun toward 1150.
Terminated, 1250.
XIIth-XIIIth century Romanesque-Gothic structure.
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Chief attraction: The retablo, XVth and XVIth sepulchres.
SEGOVIA
See dedicated to San Fruto and the Virgin.
First bishop (legendary?), San Hierateo, in Ist century.
See known to have existed in 527.
First historical bishop, Peter (589).
During Arab invasion only one bishop mentioned, Ilderedo, 940.
First bishop after the Reconquest, Don Pedro, in 1115.
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First stone of present cathedral laid, 1525.
Cathedral consecrated, 1558; finished in 1580.
Cupola erected in 1615.
Gothic-Renaissance building.
Tower struck by lightning and partly ruined, 1620.
Rebuilt (tower) in 1825.
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Total length, 341 feet; width, 156 feet.
Height of dome, 218 feet.
Width of nave and transept, 44 feet; aisles, 33 feet.
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Chief attractions: Old cloister, apse, tower.
SIGÜENZA
See dedicated to Mother and Child.
First known bishop, Protogenes, in VIth century.
During Arab invasion no mention is made of see.
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