Santa Cecília (Montserrat)
Santa Cecília (also Santa Cecília de Montserrat ) is a Romanesque church in the area of the municipality of Marganell in the Montserrat mountains in the northern hinterland of the Catalan capital Barcelona in Spain . It was declared a monument ( Bien de Interés Cultural ).
history
As early as 945, a monastery was founded in the same place by the monk Cesarius , who became the first abbot , and with the permission of the Bishop of Vic . The first church was built from 957. In the 11th century a new church was built and the holy Cecilia , St. Peter and the Virgin Mary consecrated . Monastery life fell into disrepair as early as the 15th century and in 1539 the buildings were placed under the monastery of Santa Maria de Montserrat .
After the destruction during the Napoleonic Wars and the disamortization of all Spanish monasteries, the church was restored in 1862 under the architect Francisco de Paula del Villar y Carmona (1860-1927). In the years from 1928 to 1930, Josep Puig i Cadafalch carried out renewed restoration and security work.
architecture
Exterior construction
Only the church built on a basilica floor plan with the bell gable ( espadanya ) rising above the north apse has survived from the monastery . The three semicircular apses are decorated with blind arcades and Lombard ribbons . The west facade has no decoration, but the old two-winged entrance door with its spiral-shaped forged work has been preserved.
inner space
The central nave of the church is barrel-shaped , the two side aisles are quarter barrel vaulted and plastered. The two aisles are unusually shortened compared to the central nave and are two steps higher than this; the apses secured by wooden tie rods are raised by three steps (central nave) or one step (side aisles) compared to the respective nave.
literature
- Antoni Pladevall: Els monestirs catalans. Ediciones Destino, Barcelona 1970 ISBN 84-233-0511-2 .
- Vicenç Buron: Esglésies Romàniques Catalanes. Artestudi Edicions, Barcelona 1977, ISBN 84-85180-06-2 , p. 88.
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Coordinates: 41 ° 36 ′ 8 ″ N , 1 ° 49 ′ 54 ″ E