page_title: Ermita de San Pelayo y San Isidoro
section_title: Building description
hierarchical_section_title: Ermita de San Pelayo y San Isidoro / Building description
caption_attribution_description: Español: Ermita de San Isidro o San Pelayo o San Isidoro, edificada en la ciudad de Ávila (España), cuyas ruinas se encuentran en el Parque del Retiro de Madrid. Dibujo de Francisco Aznar dentro de la obra Monumentos Arquitectónicos de España, 1856-1882. Grabado al aguafuerte sobre acero de Joaquín Pi y Margall
context_page_description: The Ermita de San Pelayo y San Isidoro is a ruined Romanesque church, originally in the city of Ávila, Spain. It was built outside the city walls, in front to the Gate of Malaventura in the south side of the Walls. In Ávila, there remains an area known as the Atrium of San Isidro. After the Spanish confiscation, it was moved to Madrid, where it had different locations. Its remains finally found accommodation in the Buen Retiro Park in central Madrid.
context_section_description: The hermitage was made in rectangular ashlars of limestone. It was a temple of unique nave with wood cover. The head was semicircular with semi-dome, and straight section with barrel vault in turn divided into two parts. Both the architectural structure of the head as the decorative motifs that can be seen in the drawings of Van den Wyngaerde, Repullés and Francisco Aznar link this building with San Vicente, San Pedro and San Andrés of Ávila, so the date of construction can approach that of those temples, the mid-12th century.
  In the unique nave it opened two doors, one to south and one to the west (puerta de los pies); still the remains of one of the two in which it can see the three midpoint archivolts that support in the abacuss united to impost. Although almost not noted, this impost is carved with roses of four petals inscribed in circles. The same rosettes formed  the decoration carved of the archivolts; yet it can guess its trace. The capitals had a zoomorphic and vegetal decoration. Despite the deterioration it can still see the acanthus leaves.
  In the apse it opened three semicircular windows with archivolt and chambrana. Remain two as witness and in its it can distinguish the deep flare ending in narrow arrowslit. The archivolts rest on abacuses and capitals that were decorated with leaves and birds with the beak between the legs, like those that can be seen in the Iglesia de San Andrés of Ávila. According to the preserved drawings, in the straight section had blind arches of a single arch whose capitals were decorated with plant motifs, lions and birds. The study of this decoration has suggested in the workshops that carved San Pedro and San Vicente and the covers of San Andrés.
caption: Drawing of Francisco Aznar within the work Architectural Monuments of Spain ', 1856-1882
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