San Pedro de Nora

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San Pedro de Nora

San Pedro de Nora is a pre-Romanesque church in the autonomous region of Asturias in northwestern Spain . It belongs to the Parroquia Valsera of the municipality ( concejo ) Las Regueras and is located on the right bank of the Río Nora , about 13 kilometers west of Oviedo . In 1931 the church was declared a Monumento Nacional ( Bien de Interés Cultural ). In 1936 it suffered great damage from a fire during the Spanish Civil War . From 1940 to the 1970s it was restored by the architect Luis Menéndez Pidal .

history

No documents have survived about the time the Church of San Pedro de Nora was built. The church is mentioned in writing in the forged document of a donation from the Asturian King Alfonso III in the early 12th century . and his wife Jimena to the Cathedral of San Salvador of Oviedo from the year 905. Due to the similarities with the churches of San Julián de los Prados and Santa María de Bendones , the construction of the church is the reign of the Asturian King Alfonso II the Chaste (783 and 791-842) assigned.

architecture

The church of San Pedro de Nora is in irregular masonry of limestone built, the corners and buttresses of ashlar stones are reinforced. Like the church of San Julián de los Prados, San Pedro de Nora has a trapezoidal floor plan , but does not have a transept . The building is 18 meters long, the entrance facade is 13 meters wide and the east facade is 12 meters. As in San Julián de los Prados, the eaves rest on corbels .

inner space

San Pedro de Nora is a three-aisled basilica with four bays . The nave has a wooden ceiling. The nave is from the aisles by four slightly stilted arched arcades separated from bricks are brick and square pillars with fighters capitals lie. There are three rectangular windows on both sides of the main nave and a large arched window on the west facade. The shemales ( celosía ) are from more recent times. Only a few remains of the original stucco and its painting have survived.

Choir

The choir head has a rectangular end and is divided into three chapels , which are directly connected to one another via passages in the partition walls. All three apses have rectangular windows and barrel vaults made of brick . On the east wall of the main apse is an aedicule , which was probably used to store relics . In San Pedro de Nora, too, as in other pre-Romanesque churches, e.g. B. San Baudelio de Berlanga or San Pedro de la Nave - a chamber above the main apse, accessible only from the outside, through a triple window in the east facade. The arches of this triforium are made of brick and rest on columns with simple capitals. There is an oculus above it .

Porch and bell tower

The vestibule through which one enters the church today is a reconstruction by the architect Luis Menéndez Pidal. It was built on the foundations that came to light when the church was restored in the 1940s. The bell tower was added in the 1960s. Neither its location nor its design are historically founded.

literature

  • Achim Arbeiter , Sabine Noack-Haley: Christian monuments of the early Middle Ages from the 8th to the 11th century . Mainz 1999, ISBN 3-8053-2312-3 , pp. 135-137.
  • Lorenzo Arias Páramo: Guía del Arte Prerrománico Asturiano . 2nd edition, Gijón 1999, ISBN 84-95178-20-6 , pp. 38-39.
  • Jaime Cobreros: Guía del Prerrománico en España . Madrid 2006, pp. 38-39, ISBN 84-9776-215-0 , pp. 38-39.
  • Jacques Fontaine: L'Art Préroman Hispanique . Vol. 1, La Pierre-qui-Vire (Zodiaque) 2nd edition 1973, pp. 402-403.

Web links

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Coordinates: 43 ° 22 ′ 9 ″  N , 5 ° 57 ′ 42.9 ″  W.