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Cathedral of San Salvador
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Location Avila, Spain   map
Date 1091   timeline
Building Type church
 Construction System bearing masonry
Climate temperate
Context mountains, urban
Style Romanesque to Gothic
Notes In picturesque walled town
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Discussion Cathedral of San Salvador Commentary

“The church, though begun in the Romanesque style, evolved through the years into the basic Gothic form seen today. Its recessed portal combines both styles, with a round-headed Romanesque door set in Gothic pointed arches. The entry, with its panel of thirteenth-century saints above and unusual sculpture at the top, all tightly framed by buttresses, hints of a Moorish influence: an elaborate access surrounded by simple flanking walls. Gothic crockets enliven the starkness The lofty interior is noted more for its details (retable, two wrought-iron pulpits) than for its Gothic correctness.”

—G. E. Kidder Smith. Looking at Architecture. p46.

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G. E. Kidder Smith. Looking at Architecture. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, 1990. ISBN 0-8109-3556-2. LC 90-30728. NA200.S57 1990. facade/entry photo, p47. discussion p46.

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