Publication Date
thirteenth, fourteenth and sixteenth centuries
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Museum With No Frontiers
Record ID
monument;ISL;es;Mon01;32;ar
Library Location
Toro (Zamora), Spain
Date
thirteenth, fourteenth and sixteenth centuries
Notes
The Gothic collegiate church of Toro, built of stone, had no influence on the other churches of the city, which adopted the more economical brick architecture, as is the case of the Church of San Lorenzo of Aljorna. It is a single-nave church covered with a vaulted vaulted ceiling, with pairs of stringers with cut overhangs and a paneling entirely furnished with paint, slightly visible from below. The chest is an eight-sided polygonal hemisphere surmounted by a quarter-cylindrical dome; It was modified at the end of the fifteenth century. The decorative register is based on full-circular double arches or on arrangements of arches and corner cornices covering the nave walls. The church was built on a small foundation of stones, wider in the chest, which plays the role of a base for the decorative arrangement and, at the same time, distinguishes it from other churches of the Toro region. The facades that close the chest consist of a lower, fully circular arch, where the sizes of the arches alternate, and another upper arch based on an arch-frame arrangement. The chest ends with a low roof made of prominent rows of bricks. In the walls of the naves open three portals, differing only in their proportions, which formed a model for the entire Mudéjar architecture of Toro: a pointed arch with a molded arch resting on cushions made of relief brick and placed in a frame whose corners are decorated with vertical bands and angular cornices. The southern and base doors are prominent with their recessed, recessed arches. The windows respond to the same decorative plan. Inside the church, the walls present a series of perfectly round and very elongated arches, interrupted by a chapel opened in the left wall to embrace the tomb of Doña Beatriz de Fonseca (? - 1487), and her husband Don Pedro of Castile (? - 1492), grandson of the King of Castile, Pierre I. The roof and choir portico also belong to the fifteenth century; The chest includes a straight, very elongated scoop, divided by a transverse arch. While the facades are composed of a series of arches and corner cornices, part of this decoration was destroyed at the time the aforementioned funerary edifice was incorporated. The decorative organization of the Church of San Lorenzo also constitutes the model used in other churches of Toro; The dividing wall, into which the arch opens, is the subject of an arrangement similar to that of the gates, but more prominent, with vertical corner cornices and, where appropriate, a frame.
Sample Text
Ángela Franco “San Lorenzo Church” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=monument;ISL;es;Mon01;32;ar
