Church of San Tirso, Oviedo

The San Tirso and San Tirso el Real church is located in Oviedo, the capital of the Spanish region of Asturias, near the Cathedral of San Salvador. It is dated to the year 800 and is one of the pre-Romanesque churches of Asturias. Of the original building, which burned down in 1521 to a large extent, the eastern façade is only obtained, which was declared in 1931 to Monumento Nacional ( Bien de Interès Cultural ).

History

How are no longer preserved church of San Salvador, Michael Sturm and the Cámara Santa had been built the Chaste ( 783 and 791-842 ) San Tirso as part of a palace complex under the Asturian King Alfonso II. The beauty of the basilica, which was dedicated to St. thyrsus, a product coming from Apollonia in today's Turkey martyr of the 3rd century, was in the chronicles of the 9th century - as the Crónica Albeldense or Crónica ad Sebastianum ( 885 ) - praised. From a deed shows that in the year 896 Alfonso III. ( 866-910 ) and his wife Jimena the Church of Oviedo Cathedral gave. 1521 burned down the church, only the east facade was preserved.

Architecture

The building is constructed in regular layers of dressed stone. The corners of the building are reinforced by larger blocks of stone. The top two cubes have a circular conclusion, which protrudes from the wall and on the - like the corbels - rests the roof eaves.

Triple window

In the center of the facade is a large triple window, which is inscribed in a square of two meters on a side. The outline of the three arches reminiscent of a typical Mozarabic architecture Alfizrahmen. The marble columns are spolia and date from the late Roman era. The slightly stilted arches are built of bricks and rest on capitals with two rows of stylized leaves. Among the capitals surround rings with Taubanddekor the columns. Over the window two large rocks protrude from the wall that served together with the no longer existing as Angel lower stones pans for wood shutters, with which the window was closed.