Iglesia de Santo Tomás (Coro)
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| Iglesia de Santo Tomás (Coro) | |
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| 43°27′35″N 5°24′00″W / 43.45973°N 5.40008°W | |
| Location | Asturias,  Spain |
Iglesia de Santo Tomás located in Coro, in the municipality of Villaviciosa in Asturias, Spain, is a rural Romanesque church from the second half of the 13th century.[1] It consists of a single rectangular nave and square chancel, with a sacristy attached, lower on the outside, to the South wall of the chancel, and a porch closed on the West side, open on seven wooden columns on the South.
Features
[edit]The interior has a pointed triumphal arch with two plain archivolts, supported by three columns on each side with anthropomorphic and zoomorphic truncated pyramid-shaped capitals.
The nave is covered with a horizontal wooden structure, and the chancel with a pointed barrel vault on the imposts, in which there are three anthropomorphic corbels and a capital.
On the exterior, the sale of the head wall stands out, in semicircular arch with a column on each side and capitals of leaves, and the two doorways. The western doorway, has two pointed archivolts and a praying figure in the soffit, and is decorated with balls and three anthropomorphic figures, which rest on a molded impost and buttresses. The southern doorway has a pointed arch with a plinth and an impost on the buttresses, and the right one has a carved four-petalled flower.
References
[edit]- ^ "Asturias - CORO, Iglesia de Santo Tomás" (PDF). Romanico Digital (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 November 2024.
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