Iglesia de San Pedro de la Mezquita - A Merca, Ourense, Galicia, España
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N 42° 14.197 W 007° 52.153
29T E 593301 N 4676667
Romanic Church Declarate BIC in 1931
Waymark Code: WM134T2
Location: Galicia, Spain
Date Posted: 09/16/2020
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The church of San Pedro de la Mezquita is a parish Catholic temple . It is located in the Mosque (the Merca ), and was declared National Monument in 1931 . It is of Romanesque origin (it has an inscription from 1202 , although it is already mentioned in 986 ), with elements of transition to Gothic.
It has a longitudinal plan and a single nave, with buttresses and delimited by an impost that runs throughout the building, under which is a continuous succession of modillions representing symbolic animals (wolf, snake), anthropomorphic figures and a rosette. It ends in a pinion on which there is an Agnus Dei and an antefixed cross with the lamb facing west, a unique case in Galicia.
At the entrance at the corner of the cornice and buttresses are two figures: St. Peter , patron, with the key in his right hand, and the Virgin . Beneath the buttresses a wolf sucks its wolves and a wolf devours a lamb. In the second body of the facade two superposed windows are abren ; the lower one, between the cover and the rose window , is of checkered semicircular arch, and the upper one is a simple window on the cornice. The rose window is decorated with floral motifs from the Santiago current. The south façade, in addition to two semicircular arched windows with capitals , shows two lionswhich rest their front legs on a string of a basket, under the discharge arch. The apse , divided by high columns , with three windows and canzorros in the cornice, is covered by two ceilings of unequal elements that alter their measures in height and width. The nave communicates by means of an arch double divided with the apse, in which truncated columns are observed under a vault.
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