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Segorbe
cathedral is the most emblematic building in the diocese. It was
built backing on to the medieval wall and joined by an arch to the
bishop's palace. The main 17th century facade rises from the feet
of the temple, with a first body of matching pairs of Tuscan columns
and split pediment crest and attic. Beside this is the bell tower,
built of ashlar stone from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries,
with a trapezoidal floor plan and three storeys, with the set of
bells in the last section and shrine-like construction on the terrace
for the hour bell.
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The interior of the cathedral temple stems from the neo-classical
renovation done to the plans of academic architect Vicente Gascó
from 1791 to 1795, to replace the old 14th century gothic structure.
This is a building with a large single nave, semi-circular headwall
and chapels between buttresses, with an arrangement of matching
pairs of compound pilasters and barrel vault, with a choir at the
foot screened off with a 15th century grille and chairs made of
carved wood by Nicolás Camarón (1725-1726), lost to
a large extent in 1936. The temple contains mural pictorial decoration
by José Vergara, in the medallions of the central nave, and
by Luis Antonio Planes and Manuel Camarón in the presbytery
shell.
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The
cloister
With
a trapezoidal floor plan through its necessary location between
the city wall and the cathedral, the cloister still has seven
of the original chapels closed off by 15th and 16th century
wrought iron bars. Open to the central garden by pointed arches
and upper gallery, it has galleries or lower corridors in
sections of gothic ribbing and fashioned supports. One significant
part of the construction is the Saviour's chapel, open to
the cloister by a beautiful gothic doorway with a baroque
door from neighbouring Cartuja de Valldecrist (Valldecrist
Charterhouse). This great building project materialised by
a tower in the wall was consecrated in 1401 under the protection
of bishop Íñigo de Vallterra, covered with an
impressive gothic tierceron ribbing, matching the decoration
that must have been used at the head of the former cathedral
temple, braced with decorated corbels.
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The
Chapterhouse, started in 1417, with a square floor plan and ribbed
vault raised on trumpet arches, has an interesting flooring made
of 15th century Valencian tiling.
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Works:
Cloister
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Cathedral
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Nave
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