Ciudad Rodrigo Cathedral | |
Fullname: | Cathedral of Saint Mary |
Other Name: | Spanish; Castilian: Catedral de Santa María |
Coordinates: | 40.5989°N -6.5351°W |
Location: | Ciudad Rodrigo |
Country: | Spain |
Denomination: | Catholic |
Address: | 4, Plaza de Herrasti |
Former Names: | --> |
Status: | Cathedral |
Dedication: | Mary, Mother of Jesus |
Dedicated Date: | 1160[1] |
Style: | Late Romanesque, Gothic |
Bells Hung: | --> |
Metropolis: | Valladolid |
Diocese: | Ciudad Rodrigo |
Bishop: | José Luis Retana Gozalo |
The Cathedral of Saint Mary (Spanish: Catedral de Santa María) is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural on 15 September 1889.[2]
The Renaissance composers Juan Navarro Hispalensis and his pupil Juan Esquivel Barahona were both choirmasters at the cathedral.
The cathedral has four doors. In the episciple-side transept, there is a Gothic frieze with twelve figures from the Old Testament and a tympanum in which four Romanesque figures were placed in the Modern Age: from left to right Saint John, Saint Peter, Christ Pantocrator, Saint Paul, and Saint James. In the other transept the Puerta de Amayuelas opens, with a multi-lobed arch.
The tower was raised by Juan de Sagarvinaga at the end of the 18th century in a neoclassical style, after the collapse of the second tower during the Lisbon earthquake (the cathedral had had a third tower, which was demolished after the communal war).