page_title: Sigüenza Cathedral
section_title: Choir
hierarchical_section_title: Sigüenza Cathedral / Interior / Central nave / Choir
caption_attribution_description: Español: Catedral de Santa María, Sigüenza, España English: Cathedral of Santa María, Sigüenza, Spain
context_page_description: The Cathedral of Sigüenza, officially Catedral de Santa María de Sigüenza, is the seat of the bishop of Sigüenza, in the town of Sigüenza, in Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1931.
  It is dedicated to Santa María la Mayor, patron saint of the city of Sigüenza. It had its origin in January 1124, when the bishop Bernard of Agen reconquered the city to the Muslims, during the reign of Urraca of León "the Reckless", daughter of Alfonso VI of León and Castile. He was appointed bishop in 1121, by the archbishop of Toledo, Bernard of Sédirac, of the Order of Cluny, continuing the influence of this introduced monastic order in the Kingdom of Castile by Alfonso VI and Alfonso of Aragon, husband of the Castilian queen. This bishop obtained from Alfonso VII of León and Castile privileges and donations with which to increase the new population, unifying the two towns: the upper around the castle and the lower one, the Mozarabic, around the channel of Henares River.
context_section_description: Located in the center of the main nave, it was built on the initiative of the Cardinal Mendoza (1467 - 1495), replacing the previous one made in alabaster and that was placed first in the main chapel and later had been transferred to the central nave.
  The floor plan is rectangular, and the choir is composed of eighty-four seats, located in two rows, the second highest, the seating is walnut, with the backs, with ornamentation of Gothic style of latticeworks that are not repeated and coat of armses of bishops; On the seats of the high seating, there is a flowered gothic canopy.
  At the center of this ashlar is the episcopal chair of back carved with images and the shield of Cardinal Mendoza, it is covered with a large canopy with pinnacle made in the same style. The carvers sculptors who worked in the choir stalls under the direction of Martín Sánchez were different, also the neighbor of Sigüenza named Alfonso González participated, in 1503 they were working on it, Petit Juan, Francisco Coca and Martín Vandoma, the chair of the bishop was believes that it was made by the teacher Rodrigo Alemán, who also worked in the low seating.
  Crowning the upper seating and over the open canopy, there are two grandstands, where the Churrigueresque organ is located, with a Plateresque balustrade and shields of the cathedral chapter and the commanding bishop Fadrique de Portugal. Renaissance of wrought iron of the year 1649, which presents three images on the upper part of Saint Dominic, the Virgin of the Rosary and Saint Thomas Aquinas, made of sheet metal cut by the artist Domingo de Zialceta under the patronage of the bishop Pedro de Tapia (1645-1649).
caption: Choir of the Cathedral of Sigüenza.
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