San Pedro de la Rua
The Church of San Pedro de la Rúa is a Romanesque church in Estella-Lizarra , a Spanish city in the Navarre region .
Geographical location
The church sits on the slope of the rock that once supported Estella Castle. The hillside location was used to create an imposing flight of stairs. It starts in Calle de San Nicolás, directly opposite the Palace of the Kings of Navarre and leads to the main entrance of the church.
history
The oldest surviving mention of the church comes from 1174, when it was called the parish church. In 1256 it became the main church in the city.
The choir was built in the 12th century and the nave in the 13th century. The Gothic tracery windows on the north wall of the church and in the tower date from the 15th century, the roofs of the naves from the 16th and 17th centuries.
building
Exterior
Due to the hillside location, the long side of the church faces the city and the north portal thus became the main portal, at which the monumental open staircase also ends. The north portal has a multi-pass arch that looks early Gothic .
The facade dates from the mid-13th century and is very similar to the facades of the nearby churches of San Román de Cirauqui and Santiago in Puente la Reina .
inner space
The interior of the building is late Romanesque. The three vessels flow into each with its own porch . The apse of the central nave is formed by three small apses, which are on an arch in plan. An example of the “baroque” in the late Romanesque is a column on the north side of the apse, which is made up of three serpentines twisting around each other.
- Furnishing
A baptismal font from the 12th century is the only liturgical object that remains from the original furnishings of the church.
The central altar dates from the 17th century, in its main niche there is a carved Romanesque sculpture of Christ on the cross from the 13th century.
The altar of the Virgin of the Rosary dates from the first half of the 17th century. In its central niche there is a picture of Mary from the 14th century. In the presbytery there is another statue of the Virgin Mary, a carving from the late 13th century from the nearby Church of the Holy Sepulcher .
The chapel of the Apostle Andrew , the patron saint of Estella, was decorated in the Baroque style in 1706 . The altarpiece, which was created at the end of the 18th century, is a work of the Rococo .
Cloister
Of the originally four-winged cloister from around 1170 on a square floor plan, only the west and north wings have survived. The cloister was buried in 1521 when the castle above was blown up by Castilian troops under falling rubble and rocks. The explosives were probably a bit plentiful. With the recovered material, the east and south wings of the cloister were rebuilt. However, the sequence of scenes was now incomplete and the order in which they were set up is arbitrary. The preserved late Romanesque capitals are of high quality and show the usual program: scenes from the life of St. Lawrence , the story of the Apostle Andrew, the murder of children in Bethlehem and the life of Christ , the Annunciation , Passion and Resurrection , alternate with allegorical animals and harpies , winged sirens , sphinxes and plants. A remarkable feature is a bundle of four pillars that is twisted by 90 °.
literature
- Dietrich Höllhuber and Werner Schäfke : The Spanish Way of St. James. History and art on the way to Santiago de Compostela . DuMont, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-7701-4862-2 .
- Werner Schäfke: Northwest Spain. Landscape, history and art on the way to Santiago de Compostela . DuMont, Cologne 1987, ISBN 3-7701-1589-9 .
- Pierre Tisné et al: Spain. Pictorial Atlas of Spanish Art . DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1968, ISBN 3-7701-4461-9 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Schäfke: Northwest Spain , p. 75.
- ^ Schäfke: Nordwest-Spanien , p. 75; Höllhuber: The Spanish Way of St. James , 94.
- ^ Schäfke: Nordwest-Spanien , p. 75; Höllhuber: The Spanish Way of St. James , p. 94.
- ↑ Tisné: Spain , S. 254th
Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 3.1 ″ N , 8 ° 55 ′ 29.8 ″ E