San Pedro (Dozón)
The Church of San Pedro in the municipality of Dozón in the Spanish province of Pontevedra in the autonomous region of Galicia is a Romanesque church from the 12th century. It is the only building that has been preserved from the former Benedictine convent of San Pedro de Vilanova.
history
The monastery of San Pedro de Vilanova was founded in 1124 by the widow Guntroda Suárez. According to an inscription on the north wall of the apse , construction works were carried out in 1154. In 1499 San Pedro de Vilanova was subordinated to the Monastery of San Pelayo de Antealtares in Santiago de Compostela .
architecture
The single-nave church is built from large granite blocks . The outer walls are structured by buttresses . The semicircular apse, which is divided into five fields with archivolt windows by half columns, is particularly artistic . The windows are framed by slender columns, the capitals and bases of which are decorated with floral and geometric motifs. The archivolts are provided with chessboard friezes and rest on fighters , which create a horizontal structure. The half-columns connect blind arcades , on carved corbels rest. The middle field is broken up by a rosette and an oculus and is framed by an archivolt with a floral decoration.
The open bell tower ( espadaña ) rises above the north portal . Like the portals of the south and west façades, the north portal opens into a field framed by buttresses and blind arcades over corbels and is framed by columns with carved capitals and archivolts. On the tympanum of the north portal, like on the simpler south portal, there is a relief of a cross.
literature
- Jaime Cobreros: Las Rutas del Románico en España . Vol. I, Guía Total, Madrid 2004, ISBN 84-9776-010-7 , pp. 318-319.
- Anton Pombo: Galicia . Guía Total, Madrid 2009, ISBN 978-84-9776-713-2 , p. 178
Web links
- San Pedro de Dozón Video
- San Pedro de Dozón arteguias (Spanish text)
Coordinates: 42 ° 35 ′ 6.8 ″ N , 8 ° 1 ′ 27 ″ W.