Monuments in Cádiz
Medina Sidonia – Santiago el Mayor Church
Santiago el Mayor Church – Medina Sidonia
The Santiago el Mayor Church is located at the Santiago Square, just few minutes from the Victoria Church and the San Cristocal Convent in the Andalusian town of Medina Sidonia, province of Cadiz.
The Santiago el Mayor Church belongs to the early sixteenth century, Mudejar style, highlighted with their interesting crafts; the titular saint is Santiago el Mayor, patron of the city and of Spain. It was a primitive chapel in the suburb, built at the outskirts of the city, its origins date from 1384. Its Moorish Andalusian typology and responds the Andalusian Mudejar, mixed with the first Gothic.
Santiago el Mayor Church main features
Church with a columnar plant formed by aggregations made during the 17th and 18th centuries around a primitive nucleus belonging to an old Mudejar hermitage built outside the city walls at the beginning of the 16th century in the Santiago neighborhood, around which the neighborhood was formed. current. The Latin cross layout of the floor plan is made up of three naves with four sections subdivided by pointed pointed arches supported by stone columns with bevelled bases and octagonal capitals similar to those of the hermitage of the Santos Mártires located on the outskirts of the same city.
The side naves, originally finished in the apse, are covered with corbels with cantilevered ceilings, and the central one, of greater proportions, with a coffered ceiling of par and knuckle. Staff files, almizate decorated with canvas lacerías and double braced. In the transept, the main chapel with a flat headwall, and in the adjoining sacristy on the Epistle side, ribbed vaults are turned, covering the entire complex with gabled skirts of Moorish tiles. The primitive gable end of the temple, located at the foot of the naves, was occupied at the end of the 17th century by a high choir supported by a cannon with lunettes and by two chapels covered with a hemispherical vault on pendentives, the one corresponding to the lateral nave on the side of the Epistle and with a vaulted ceiling on the side of the Gospel. Towards the middle of the 17th century, the Diocesan architects Francisco de Vargas and Bernabé Sánchez intervened in its repair, making the portals of fluted Doric columns and straight split pediments with emblematic plaques in the tympanums of the apsidal chapels.
The works of the sacristy, the chapels of La Paz and San José, attached to the last two sections of the side nave on the Gospel side, and the main portal located in the third section of the same belong to the 18th century. nave, resolved with Tuscan semi-columns and a south facing lintel mounted by a split straight pediment on whose tympanum a bas-relief of Santiago stands out, flanked by the diocesan coat of arms and the remains of the ducal coat of arms. The tower, located behind the headwall, is the original minaret of the renovated mosque. Read more…
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