Church of the Holy Trinity (Segovia)
Church of the Holy Trinity.
The Church of the Holy Trinity in Segovia (Spain) is a temple of a single nave covered with vault of half-barrel and head with curved apse preceded by straight section. To the south opens the atrium, as is common in the Segovian Romanesque. To the north, a Gothic chapel and two baroque sacristÃas. To the outside, the apse appears half-hidden in a narrow alley, divided by two half columns in three cloths, in which are opened two windows with columns angled with decorated capitals and in horizontal sense by three lines of imposta one to the height of the sill, another as an extension of the capitals and one above the arch. A ledge over canes representing fantastic figures or real, finishes the set. In its interior it surprises its two floors of overlapping arches, with capitals historiados, vegetables, fantastic bichas, of great sculptural and iconographic value, with some remains of its old policromÃa.
To the south, as usual in the Segovian Romanesque, a porticoed gallery is opened, using semi-arched arches on double columns that support very sober capitals, with a simple and elegant vegetal decoration, very flat.
The temple has two portals, the western one of simple invoice, presents archivolts aboceladas that rest in beautiful capitals with bichas and flora. On the cover opens a window that serves as illumination to the main nave and the side door with access from the atrium, of great beauty in the decoration of its capitals. Inside the temple there is a single nave covered with barrel vault on three arches fajones, that support in half columns attached to the side walls. Next to the nave is the tower, which forms inwardly a kind of dome of rectangular shape covered with vault of edges. The current 12th-century temple was replaced by a more primitive one dating back to the end of the 11th century, whose remains were discovered following the demolition of a baroque chapel in the south in 1984. The oldest part of the current church corresponds to the head, being the west portal and the atrium later work. In 1513 the Chapel of the Campo is constructed, with a cover decorated in Elizabethan Gothic style, with a lowered arch topped by a conopial decorated with cardinas. During the seventeenth century, the interior of the temple was redecorated with baroque settlements to the taste of the time.
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