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Structuring Ethnicity: Ethnic Identities & Diasporic Communities in the Architecture of Later Medieval Córdoba, Spain, 10th to 16th Centuries

Volume 2

D. A. Lenton

Ph.D

Dept. of Archaeology

MARCH 2013

Appendix A

Survey Recorder: D. A. Lenton Survey Archive

APPENDIX A

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Contents

Survey Reference

Building/ Structure Name Report Pages (No.)

Addenda Pages (No.)

DB101 Casa Andalusí 12 1 DB102 Sinagoga 12 1

DB103 Mezquita 13 1

DB104 Posada del Potro 11 2

DB105 Archivo Municipal 8 1

DB106 Abolafia 8 1

DB107 Puente Romano 7 1

DB108 Calahorra 12 3

DB109 Alcázar 10 1

DB110 Baños Árabes 11 1

DB111 Not Used

DB112 Puerta de Almodóvar 8 1

DB113 Casa del Indiano 8 1

DB114 Convento de Santa Clara 9 0

DB115 Convento de Santa Marta 8 0

DB116 Not Used

DB117 Molino del Martos 9 1

DB118 Torre de la Malmuerta 8 2

DB119 Casa Santiago 8 1

DB120 Alminar de San Juan 8 1

DB121 Casa de las Bulas 7 1

DB122 Hospital de la Caridad 9 0

DB123 Palacio de los Páez 9 0

DB124 Not Used

DB125 Palacio de Viana 8 0

DB126 Iglesia de la Magdalena 9 0

DB127 Iglesia de San Nicolás 9 1

DB128 Iglesia de San Lorenzo 12 2

DB129 Iglesia Convento San Pablo 9 0

Survey Recorder: D. A. Lenton Survey Archive

APPENDIX A

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Survey Reference

Building/ Structure Name Report Pages (No.)

Addenda Pages (No.)

DB130 Iglesia de San Agustín 8 0

DB131 Iglesia de Santa Marina 8 0

DB132 Iglesia de San Pedro 9 1

DB133 Iglesia de Santiago 9 1

DB134 Iglesia de San Andrés 8 0

DB135 Iglesia de San Miguel 8 0

DB136 Iglesia de San Francisco 7 0

DB137 Capilla de San Bartolomé 9 1

DB138 Casa de los Luna 8 1

DB139 Puerta de Sevilla 7 1

DB140 Puerta del Rincón 8 1

DB141 Muralla del Marrubial 9 1

DB142 Puerta del Puente 8 0

DB143 Arco de Portillo 8 1

DB144 Torre de Belén 8 1

DB145 Casa del Carpio 8 3

DB146 Palacio de Orive 8 1

DB147 Hospital de San Sebastián 9 1

DB148 Casa de las Campañas 8 2

DB149 Palacio de los Aguayo 7 0

DB150 Palacio Episcopal 8 0

DB151 Not Used

DB152 Convento de Santa Isabel 8 0

DB153 Not Used

DB154 Not Used

DB155 Not Used

DB156 Not Used

DB157 Casa Mudéjar 9 0

DB158 Muralla de los Mártires 8 1

Drawing Conventions 1

Survey Recorder: D. A. Lenton Survey & Archive Reference: Date of Survey: 27-Oct-08 DB101

LEVEL 3 SURVEY – ANALYTIC RECORD

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Contents

1.0 Identification of Building or Structure

2.0 Summary of Building Type and Historical Usage

3.0 Description of Building & Materials

4.0 Supplementary Information

5.0 Photographic Record

6.0 Drawing Record – Addendum Attached 1 Page

7.0 Bibliography



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1.1

Building Short Name

Casa Andalusí

1.2 Variant Names The Andalusí House

1.3 Address No.12 Calle de los Judios, Córdoba, Spain

1.4 Location Co-ordinates Northing 37.880°

Easting -4.784°

1.5 Statutory & Non-statutory

Designations

Within the designated area of the Córdoba

UNESCO World Heritage Site No. 313

(1984/1994).

1.6 Survey Assessment &

Archaeological Value

Preservation is Medium (2). It has many

surviving medieval walls, although the

building has been subject to modern

renovation at second storey height.

Legibility is Medium (2). Many of its walls

have no coverings but the front elevation and

some internal walls are rendered and plastered.

Accessibility is High (3). The building is

publically accessible.

Stratigraphical Complexity is Medium (2).

First inspection indicated that the structure’s

phases spanned at least 2 periods.

Archaeological Value is Medium (2-2.5).

1.7 Primary Building Technique Fired brick; large; hand-moulded; rectangular;

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2.1 Moorish period residential Courtyard house of earliest proposed date 12th

century (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 120; Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.). It is

currently a museum and tourist attraction.

2.2 The building is located on a narrow street running north-south in the Juderia

area in the parish of Santa Maria north-west of the Mezquita.

2.3 The sole (east) entrance is via an ersatz medieval timber single leaf door

directly from the street to an entrance vestibule. The building has two storeys

above ground plus roof space and one split-level Cellar below ground.


3.1 Foundations and external walls are of local hand-moulded, clay brickwork

construction. External brickwork walls are visible to roof height at the rear

(west) and form an alleyway against the Medina’s western perimeter wall.

3.2 East external walls are rendered with sand and cement plaster and are

painted.

3.3 The building is entered from the via a single leaf timber front door in the east

elevation. The lintel above the doorway is likely to be a modern alteration.

The doorway opens to a vestibule. An arched doorway in the west wall of the

vestibule opens into the Courtyard. This doorway is offset from the front

door so that the Courtyard is not visible from the front entrance door.

3.4 The brickwork walls on the ground floor appear to be consistent with 12th

century dates. The ground floor plan is a common form known in Córdoba

during the Caliphal and Taifal periods (Murillo Redondo 2003: 174-7). The

stone columns on the ground floor and brickwork walls from ground to first

floor may also date to the Moorish period subject to modern period repairs.

The Cellar construction is ante-quem to the ground floor.

3.5 Courtyard arches are of brickwork above carved stone columns with floral

shaped capitals. These stone columns may be reused and of Roman or

Visigothic date. The brickwork arches and the timber framing on the ground

floor and the first floor are of modern construction.



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3.6 The largest room (Room A 4.31 by 7.21 metres) is located to the west of the

Courtyard and a secondary room (Room B 5.93 by 2.42 metres) is located to

the north of the Courtyard. Both rooms have external doors leading to the

passageways to the rear of the building. Smaller rooms (Room C 3.57 by

3.29 metres & Room D 2.74 by 3.05 metres) occur via doorways to the east

of the Courtyard. Internal walls are decorated with modern plasterwork and

ceramic tiling.

3.7 Ceilings are modern timber joisted and boarded.

3.8 Courtyard and room floors are modern ceramic tiled.

3.9 Stone steps lead from the north-west corner of the Courtyard down to the

Cellar. The Cellar is split-level and entirely of brickwork construction with a

barrel-vault ceiling and stone steps to the lower level. There is a well or

sump sunk into the lower level floor of the Cellar next to the remains of a

mosaic floor. The arrangement of the split-level Cellar has the appearance of

a Mikvek, a Jewish ritual bath, and it complies with all the physical

requirements of the Torah, the Halachah (Kadish 1996: 101-2). Two light

wells open in the south wall of the upper-level of the Cellar allowing light in

from the Courtyard. The structure of the Cellar, the sump and the mosaic

floor are most likely to have been contemporary with the 12th-century floor

plan of the house. Although they may have been inserted later, the

arrangement was probably maintained throughout the Reconquista period.

3.10 Roofs are of modern timber framed construction with ceramic roof tiles.


4.1 Casa Andalusí is a house that complies with a construction and spatial

grammar characteristic of areas of the Islamic world and the Mediterranean

which are charged with seasonal and daily temperature differences. The main

room of the house is a large rectangular space and is usually located to the

north or south of the Courtyard. In some houses are two rooms, invariably

located opposite each other and with their doors respectively facing south

and north (Murillo Redondo 2003: 176).



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4.2 The rooms of the Islamic house do not have a preset function but they

contain significant divisions of social accessibility both public and private.

The rooms may be used interchangeably to eat, sleep and entertain. The

storage of foods and utensils are generally thought to have been in open wall

cupboards, while sitting and eating probably occurred on carpets, rugs, mats

and cushions arranged on the floor. The rooms open onto the courtyard

usually through a door arranged in the centre of the wall. (Murillo Redondo

2003: 176).

4.3 In a few cases a vestibule existed, which created a transitional space between

the entrance and the courtyard (Murillo Redondo 2003: 176).

4.4 Perhaps the only unit in the Islamic house clearly differentiated by

functionality is the latrine. In all cases, discretion and privacy appears to

have been required by isolating it as much as possible from the rest of the

house. They were usually in a corner of the courtyard or in the vestibule

(Murillo Redondo 2003: 176). Another condition for the location of latrines

is proximity to the street in order to ensure an evacuation as short and direct

as possible to septic tanks or sewers located there (Murillo Redondo 2003:

177).

4.4 There are no identifiable kitchen areas in the excavated in this Córdoban

house form. Combustion structures have been identified consisting of a clay

cake arranged on the ground, usually in a corner of the courtyard or in a

small space to the side. This suggests that food preparation took place either

in the courtyards or other multi-functional spaces of the house using stoves

(Murillo Redondo 2003: 177).



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5.1 General External Views of the Building in its Setting

Fig. 101a: Aerial view of the building structure in its neighbourhood

North at top (Google Inc. n.d.)

Fig. 101b.: Aerial view of the building structure in close-up.




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Fig. 101c: East aspect viewed from the

south.

Fig. 101e: Front (east) entrance door

Fig. 101d: East aspect viewed from the

north.

Fig. 101f: Alleyway at rear (west)

viewed from the north



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5.2 Interior, Principal Rooms and Circulation Areas

Looking East Looking South

Looking West Looking North-West

Looking North Looking North



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Fig. 101g Ground Floor Courtyard

Looking East Looking South-East

Looking North-West

Fig. 101h: Room A



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Looking East Looking West

Fig. 101i Room B


Looking South

Fig. 101j Cellar



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6.0 Drawing Record

Addendum

Drawing No. 101.1

1 Page A4 Size



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7.0 Bibliography

Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.: Córdoba: Oficinas De Información Turística. (ed, Ayuntamiento de Córdoba) Ayuntamiento de Córdoba, Córdoba. Daroca Bruño, F., Yllescas Ortiz, M. & De La Fuente Darder, F. (eds.) 2003: Córdoba: Guía De Arquitectura. Córdoba: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectura de Córdoba. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Kadish, S. 1996. Eden in Albion: A History of the Mikveh in Britain. In: S. Kadish (ed.) Building Jerusalem: Jewish Architecture in Britain, p. 101-154. London: Valentine Mitchell. Murillo Redondo, J. F. 2003. La Qurtuba Islámica: Las Casas. In: J. Fernández (ed.) Guía Archaeológica De Córdoba, p. 171-177. Cordoba: Plurabelle.

http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html

Survey Reference: DB101 Drawing No: 101.1Building Short Name: Casa Andalusi Address: No.12 Calle de los Judios, Cordoba, SpainScale: 1:200 Sheet Size: ISO A4

10 metres10 metres

East elevation

Ground Floor Plan First Floor Plan

Cellar Plan

Courtyard

Room A

Room B

Courtyard

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1.1 Building Short Name Sinagoga

1.2 Variant Names The Synagogue of Isaac Majeb

The Synagogue of Yishaq Moheb

1.3 Address No.10 Calle de los Judios, Córdoba, Spain

1.4 Location Co-ordinates Northing 37.879°Easting -4.783°


Designations



(1984/1994).

Bien de Interés Cultural (Nationally Listed as

a Building of Cultural Interest) (Ministerio de

Cultura n.d.).



Preservation is High (3). Two storeys of the

medieval structure are largely intact.

Legibility is High (3). The walls are

unrendered.




The building spans at least 2 periods –

Reconquista and Imperial.

Archaeological Value is High (2.5-3).

1.7 Primary Building Technique Perimeter walls: Fired clay brickwork; large;

wire cut; rectangular; regular coursing; thick

mortar.

Building walls: Stone; very large; roughly

dressed; part squared; regular coursing; thick

mortar.



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2.1 Reconquista period synagogue possibly retaining elements of an earlier

synagogue of earliest suggested date 12th century (Calvert 1906: 153; Collins

1998: 119). It was rebuilt in the early 14th century (Aguilar Gavilán 1995: 47;

Collins 1998: 119). After 1492 the building became a rabies hospital

dedicated to Santa Quiteria (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 119). In 1588 it

became the chapel of the Guild of Shoemakers dedicated to St. Crispin and

St. Crispian (Casal García 2003: 234-5). It is currently a museum and tourist

attraction.

2.2 The building is located on a narrow street running north-south in the Juderia

area in the parish of Santa Maria II north-west of the Mezquita.

2.3 The sole (east) entrance is via timber double leaf door directly from the street

to an entrance courtyard or patio. The building has three storeys above

ground.


3.1 Foundations of the perimeter walls are of Andalusían limestone but rise in

local clay brickwork construction. Perimeter brickwork walls are not

rendered but exposed.

3.2 Entrance courtyard walls are of local brickwork construction with brickwork

repairs. The floor is of modern stone tiles.

3.3 There is an entrance lobby (Room A), walled in local brickwork on the east

and south sides. The brickwork is large, handmade, hand-moulded clay in

thick mortar in fairly regular coursing. It is stitched into the stonework of the

north wall and therefore post-dates it. The west wall is of Andalucían

limestone. The foundations of the west and north walls are bonded together

and appear coeval forming an early 14th-century structure with the Prayer

Room (Room B), although the western section of the north wall has been

rebuilt in clay brickwork. The room is entered by a double leaf timber door

in the centre of the south wall. The doorway is has a rounded brickwork arch.

Ceilings are modern timber joisted and boarded. Floor is modern ceramic

tiled. A modern timber staircase leads to the second floor (Room C). The



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brickwork of the east wall has been subjected to considerable disturbance

and repair suggesting that an antecedent staircase has been removed.

3.4 The north wall adjoins with the main chamber or Prayer Hall (Room B) and

is of Andalucían limestone. A large lintel doorway in the north wall leads to

Room B. The lintel is overlaid with Mudéjar style ataurique plasterwork

indicating that the doorway and north-wall brickwork dates from the

Reconquista period or earlier. There is a smaller round-arch doorway roughly

cut through the eastern section of the north wall, which has been filled in

with roughly hand-moulded or recovered brickwork. This is likely to have

been the Imperial period door to Room B. The infill brickwork is large,

handmade, wire cut clay in thick mortar in regular coursing.

3.5 In Room B, walls are of Andalucían limestone and are decorated internally,

to second storey height, with plasterwork with Mudéjar-style plant motifs

and Hebrew inscriptions dated to 14th century. Also at second storey level,

three internal arched windows open in the south wall on to Room C. Three

plastered panels on the north wall and two on the west wall suggest that there

may be three concealed infilled windows behind. On the east wall of Room B

is a large recess with a rounded arch above.

3.6 The third storey of Room B is of brickwork and may be an Imperial period

extension to the height of the building. Five arched windows open in each of

the four walls at third storey height. The ceiling of Room B is coffered and

was erected in the 18th century (El Grupo Arca 1995).

3.7 Floors of Room B are ceramic tiled.

3.8 Room C is known as the Women’s Gallery (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 119)

and is walled in local brickwork on the east and south sides. The brickwork

is large, handmade, wire cut clay in thick mortar in regular coursing. It is a

continuation of the brickwork in Room A. The west and north walls are of

Andalucían limestone and are coeval with the 14th-century Prayer Room

(Room B). There are no doors. The three internal arched windows in the

north wall allow clear views to the ground floor of Room B. Two external

rectangular windows in the south wall look out on to the courtyard.



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3.9 If the inscription dates are to be trusted then Rooms A, B and C coexisted in

the 14th century and were constructed in limestone but the apparently 14th-

century brickwork repair to the adjoining wall suggests that the stonework

was earlier. Consequently, the stonework wall bases and foundations may

have formed a synagogue that stood in the 12th century when the Juderia was

formed.

3.10 An additional, higher perimeter wall seems to have been added running along

the street front in large, wire-cut brickwork in stretcher bond [Fig. 102c].

This has created a more substantial portal and the internal perimeter wall was

built up to meet the increased height.

3.11 Roofs are of 20th century timber framed construction with ceramic roof tiles.


4.1 On the eastern wall of Room B is the Tabernacle, the reserved space for the

Torah which is crowned with an arch. The west wall of Room B has a small

niche with pointed arch which once housed the altar of Santa Quiteria. The

ornamental work in Room B shows two distinct styles, the area

corresponding to the rostrum of women (south wall) is adorned with rich

plasterwork and intricate design, which shows influences from Granada in

the work (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 119). Other walls feature a grid of lobed

arches with a pineapple in the centre, whose aesthetic is closer to art shown

in Toledo. The decoration is completed with prayers from the book of Psalms

(Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 119).

4.2 To the right of the Tabernacle is an inscription in the plasterwork. The

inscription states that the synagogue was commissioned by in 1314 to 1315

and was built by builders led by Yishaq Moheb (Issac Majeb) (Collins 1998:

119; Casal García 2003: 234). Against this is a lobed arc that was the frame

of the "bimah" or pulpit. A pictorial cross remains, dating perhaps to the

sixteenth century (El Grupo Arca 1995).



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south.

Fig. 102e: Entrance patio looking West


north.

Fig. 102f: Entrance patio looking East



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Looking West Looking North-East

Looking East Looking South West



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Fig. 102g Room A entrance Hall

Looking West Looking West

Looking West Looking West

Looking East Looking East

Fig. 102h Room B Prayer Hall



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Looking South East Looking South

Looking South Looking South

Fig. 102i: Room B Prayer Hall



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6.0 Drawing Record

Addendum

Drawing No. 102.1

1 Page A4 Size



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7.0 Bibliography

Aguilar Gavilán, E. 1995: Historia De Córdoba. Madrid: Sìlex. Calvert, A. F. 1906: Moorish Remains in Spain : Being a Brief Record of the Arabian Conquest of the Peninsula with a Particular Account of the Mohammedan Architecture and Decoration in Cordova, Seville & Toledo London & New York: John Lane. Casal García, M. T. 2003. La Córdoba Judia: La Sinagoga. In: D. Vaquerizo Gil (ed.) Guía Archaeológica De Córdoba, p. 234-236. Córdoba Plurabelle. Collins, R. 1998: Spain: An Oxford Archaeological Guide. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Daroca Bruño, F., Yllescas Ortiz, M. & De La Fuente Darder, F. (eds.) 2003: Córdoba: Guía De Arquitectura. Córdoba: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectura de Córdoba. El Grupo Arca 1995: Guía Artística De La Provincia De Córdoba. Córdoba: Universidad de Córdoba. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue. http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Ministerio de Cultura n.d.: Bien De Interés Cultural: La Base De Datos De Bienes Inmuebles. http://www.mcu.es/bienes/cargarFiltroBienesInmuebles.do?layout=bienesInmuebles&cache=init&language=es.


http://www.mcu.es/bienes/cargarFiltroBienesInmuebles.do?layout=bienesInmuebles&cache=init&language=es


10 metres10 metres

Second Floor Plan

South Elevation

Room A

Room B

Room C

Room B Room B

Entrance Courtyard

Ground Floor Plan First Floor PlanSurvey Reference: DB102 Drawing No: 102.1Building Short Name: La SinagogaAddress: No.10 Calle de los Judios, Cordoba, SpainScale: 1:200 Sheet Size: ISO A4

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1.1 Building Short Name Mezquita

1.2 Variant Names La Mezquita Aljama, The Great Friday

Mosque, The Cathedral of St. Mary of the

Assumption, La Capilla Mayor

1.3 Address Calle de Torrijos & Calle de Magistral

Gonzales Frances, Córdoba, Spain

1.4 Location Co-ordinates Northing 37.879° Easting -4.780°


Designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.).



Preservation is High (3). It has many surviving

medieval walls to second storey height.

Legibility is Low (1). Significant sections of

the medieval structure are obscured.

Accessibility is Low (1). The upper storeys of

the building are unattainable for detailed

measured survey.

Stratigraphical Complexity is High (3). Phases

spanned at least 3 periods.

Archaeological Value is Low (1-2).

1.7 Primary Building Technique Moorish: Stone; very large sized; ashlar

smooth; well squared; regular coursing; thin

mortar.

Reconquista: Stone; very large, rectangular,

ashlar stonework; thin mortar; regular courses.

Early Imperial: Stone; very large; carved

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2.1 Caliphal period Friday Mosque of earliest known date 8th century with

additions in the 9th and 10th centuries. It contains a 16th century catholic

cathedral and Bell Tower by the architect Hernán Ruiz (Calvert 1906: -6).

2.2 The building is located on the north bank of the Guadalquivir in the parish of

Santa Maria.

2.3 There are several perimeter doors but the main (north-west) entrance is via

timber double leaf door (Door A) through the cathedral Bell Tower.


3.1 Foundations and walls are of Andalusían limestone. Walls are unrendered.

3.2 Door A, the Puerta del Perdón, leads to a large open Courtyard garden the

“Patio de los Naranjos” (Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.).

3.3 To the south-east of the Courtyard lies the 8th-century prayer hall with a

series of aisles running perpendicularly from to the transverse wall. The

Prayer Hall has a mid-10th-century extension to the south-east and a late10th-

century extension to the north-east (Calvert 1906: 34-6).

3.4 The 10th-century transverse wall runs north-west to south east and contains

the Koran niche or mihrab, and also a post-medieval chapel (Barrucand &

Bednorz 1992: 61-4).

3.5 The remains of an 8th-century minaret form the base of an Imperial period

Bell Tower. The Imperial period cathedral, Capilla Mayor de Santa Maria, is

placed centrally within the Prayer Hall (Sordo 1963: 41-6).

3.6 The construction and alteration works carried out during the Reconquista

period were minimal. The Primary Building Technique employed was very

large, rectangular, ashlar stonework in thin mortar and regular course and can

be identified in arcade columns of the Capilla Mayor or Royal Chapel and

the Capilla de Villaviciosa. These chapels were formed within the arcading

of al-Hakim’s 10th-century extension against the south-eastern wall of the

mosque. They were built in an early-Mudéjar style with walls that are

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3.7 The Primary Building Technique of the Imperial period was very large,

carved stonework to create the Nave of the cruciform Cathedral in the centre

of the Mezquita. The altar is orientated towards the north-east as are most of

the medieval churches of Córdoba. The structure consists of high pointed

arches in High Gothic/ Isabelline style of the early 16th century with

elaborate fan vaulting above the altar. The arches top slender fluted and rope-

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4.1 The Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba is a most significant monument of the

western Moslem World. The evolution of the Omeyan style in Spain can be

seen in its different sections, as well as the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque

styles of the Christian part (Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.). The site which

the Mosque-Cathedral occupies has been used for the worship of different

divinities since ancient times. Under the rule of the Visigoths, the Basilica of

San Vicente occupied this very site, and later, after the Moslems bought part

of the plot of land, a Mosque was built. The basilica was rectangular in shape,

and for a while was shared by Christians and Moslems (Ayuntamiento de

Córdoba n.d.). As the Moslem population increased, the ruler Abderraman I

acquired the whole site and demolished the basilica to make way for the first

Alhama (main) Mosque in the city (Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.). Some of

the original building materials from the Visigothic basilica can still be seen in

the first section of the Mosque built by Abderraman I. The great Mosque is

made up of two distinct areas, the courtyard or sahn, with its porticos (the only

part built by Abd al- Rahman III), where the minaret stands - nowadays,

encased in the Renaissance tower - and the prayer hall, or haram. The area

inside is made up of a forest of columns with a colour scheme of red and white

arches. The five separate areas of the Mosque correspond to each of the five

extensions carried out (Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.).

4.2 The Islamic building was built from the 8th century on a plot next to the

strategically important River Guadalquivir on sites of Roman and Visigothic

date. The Mosque of Cordoba itself is built on Basilica of San Vicente

(Located under the prayer room Rahman I, excavated by D. Félix Hernández

in the 1930s), whose ruins can still be seen in one of the museums in the

mosque (in the south-western corner) (Romeo & Gómez 2005). The mosque

consists of three parts: Patio de los Naranjos (Retains much of its original

appearance), which is accessed by Puerta del Perdón in Mudejar style (1377),

with rows of orange trees and palms, fountains and horseshoe arches that

surround the doors. There rises a partially roofed minaret that was clad in the

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http://wikanda.cordobapedia.es/wiki/Abderram%C3%A1n_I

http://wikanda.cordobapedia.es/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_Hern%C3%A1ndez_Gim%C3%A9nez

http://wikanda.cordobapedia.es/wiki/Patio_de_los_Naranjos

http://wikanda.cordobapedia.es/wiki/Puerta_del_Perd%C3%B3n

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early 17th century. The total area of the monument is over 22,000 square

meters, with a length of 174 meters long and 128.4 long. The door of Las

Palmas provides access to the mosque: a forest of eight hundred and fifty

columns of marble, jasper and granite on which are supported by three

hundred sixty-five bicolor horseshoe arches. The mihrab, a holy place of the

mosque that marks the southern direction (not towards Mecca) is in marble,

stucco and brightly coloured Byzantine mosaics on gold backgrounds. One

theory for the mirab’s orientation is that this was the will of Rahman to face

toward the river and his native Syria). Today the most accepted theory is that

the main hall of the mosque follows the orientation of the main street (cardo)

of ancient Roman Cordoba (Colonia Patricia), as witnessed in the

Archaeological excavations of the city. After the Christians conquest of

Cordoba, the mosque became used for worship. In the 16th century, when

Islam was permanently expelled from the Iberian peninsula, a Renaissance

cathedral was built by Hernán Ruiz I and his son Hernán Ruiz II, in the heart

of the mosque, altering the original perspective.

4.3 Christian possession of the ensemble took place with very few alterations: a

small focal point around Alhaquen’s skylight, the Villaviciosa and Royal

chapels, and the beginning of the bounding of the ‘infinite’ space with side

chapels. Although the first Gothic nave opened in 1489, changed the

orientation to the east, it showed a deep understanding of the Mosque’s

structure as it achieved a maximum of space with a minimum of work and

maintained the spatial continuity of the ensemble. Located on the northern

face, next to the minaret, is the Puerta del Perdón, a Mudéjar construction

from 1377 in which a large peak arch formed by an alfiz supports a frieze with

three multifoil arches that display mural paintings. The doors leaves, with their

geometrical decoration of Almohade inspiration and Gothic lettering lead to a

vestibule (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 89).

4.4 The first discrete Christian action focused on the conversion in 1257 of the

skylit entrance to Alhaquen II’s enlargement in the High Chapel, known as the

Capilla de Villaviciosa, and on the creation in 1258 of the adjoining Capilla

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Real. The latter, a Mudéjar construction with walls that are decorated with

multi-foil arches that support a vault with bow-shaped ornaments, was not

completed until 1371, the year in which Enrique II added the socles and the

pavement of Granadan influence (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 94).

4.5 In 1489, the Villaviciosa Chapel was transformed into the presbytery of the

new Gothic nave, which presents four stretches with transverse peak arches

that support a wooden roof divided into panels (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 94).



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Fig. 103c: North-west aspect viewed

from the south-west.

Fig. 103e: South-east aspect viewed

from the east

Fig. 103d: South-east aspect viewed

from the south-east.

Fig. 103f: South-east aspect viewed

from the south



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Fig. 103g: Courtyard from the north-east Fig. 103h: San Estaban Gate from

the north-west

Fig. 103i: Prayer Hall from the south-west Fig. 103j: Prayer Hall from the

south-east



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Fig. 103k: Capilla Mayor looking north Fig. 103l: Capilla Mayor vault (south)

Fig. 103m: Capilla Mayor multi-foiled arches and vault (southern end)

Fig. 103n. 16th- century Nave



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7.0 Bibliography

Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.: Córdoba: Oficinas De Información Turística. (ed, Ayuntamiento de Córdoba) Ayuntamiento de Córdoba, Córdoba. Barrucand, M. & Bednorz, A. 1992: Moorish Architecture in Andalusia. Cologne: Benedikt Taschen Verlag. Calvert, A. F. 1906: Moorish Remains in Spain : Being a Brief Record of the Arabian Conquest of the Peninsula with a Particular Account of the Mohammedan Architecture and Decoration in Cordova, Seville & Toledo London & New York: John Lane. Daroca Bruño, F., Yllescas Ortiz, M. & De La Fuente Darder, F. (eds.) 2003: Córdoba: Guía De Arquitectura. Córdoba: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectura de Córdoba. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Ministerio de Cultura n.d.: Bien De Interés Cultural: La Base De Datos De Bienes Inmuebles. http://www.mcu.es/bienes/cargarFiltroBienesInmuebles.do?layout=bienesInmuebles&cache=init&language=es. Romeo, A. & Gómez, S. 2005: Cordobapedia. (eds, A. Romeo & S. Gómez) http://wikanda.cordobapedia.es/, Cordoba. Sordo, E. 1963: Moorish Remains: Cordoba Seville Granada. London: Elek Books.




http://wikanda.cordobapedia.es/

Line of theMihrab

CapillaMayor

Qibla

San Estaban Gate

Survey Recorder: D. A. Lenton Survey & Archive Reference: Date of Survey: 29-Oct-08 & 27-Oct-10 DB104


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1.1 Building Short Name Posada del Potro

1.2 Variant Names The Colt Inn

1.3 Address No.10 Plaza del Potro, Córdoba, Spain


Easting -4.774°


Designations



(1984/1994).




medieval structure are largely intact.

Legibility is Medium (2). Most of the walls

are rendered but the East Elevation was

temporarily exposed by restoration works on

28-Oct-08.






Archaeological Value is High (2-2.5).

1.7 Primary Building Technique Fired clay brick; large; hand-moulded;

rectangular; regular coursing; thick mortar.



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2.1 Reconquista period courtyard inn of earliest proposed date 13th century

(Romeo & Gómez 2005). It is currently a cultural centre and tourist

attraction.

2.2 The building is located on a plaza in the parish of San Nicolas in the Potro

area of the city east of the Mezquita.

2.3 The sole (east) entrance is via a timber double leaf door directly from the

street to an entrance hall (Room A). The building has two storeys above

ground plus roof space.


3.1 External walls are of local clay brickwork construction. External brickwork

walls were visible to roof height at the front (east) during repair works on

29th October 2008. Brickwork and timber lintels to doors and windows were

visible.

3.2 Other external walls are of brickwork construction and are painted.

3.3 The building is entered from the via a double leaf timber front door (Door A)

in the East Elevation [Fig. 104f]. The northernmost section of the East

Elevation is a later abutment with slightly smaller brickwork stitched into the

earlier southern element. It rises to a lower roof height than the southernmost

section. The entrance doorway opens to a hall (Room A). The entrance

doorway is flanked by vertical lines of discontinuity in the brickwork, where

slightly larger brickwork has been stitched in to the existing construction as

door jambs. This suggests that the present doorway may have replaced an

earlier larger medieval entranceway.

3.4 Also in the East Elevation, there are two ground floor windows, two first

floor windows and a first floor door. The southern ground floor window

(Window A) is an insertion but the break lines around it are very wide

suggesting that a larger opening or doorway was present in the Reconquista

period. The southern first floor window (Window C) is also an insertion but

is considerably smaller than the infilled area around it. The positions of the



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break lines suggest that a window or balconied doorway existed in the

Reconquista period.

3.5 The internal brickwork walls on the ground floor are visible but painted.

They constitute the Primary Building Technique and appear to be consistent

with 15th century dates as the ground floor plan is a common form known in

Western Europe 14th and 15th centuries [Drawing 104.1] (e.g. Pevsner 1960:

221; Lancaster 1981: 28-34; Privat 1983; Munby et al. 1992: 301-7; Jurica

1994: 9; Newman & Pevsner 2006: 32; Hugonnet-Berger et al. 2007). A

wide doorway, wide enough for carriages, opens in the west wall of Room A

and leads to a large courtyard. Immediately to the right, there is a water

trough. Either side of the courtyard are two building wings (North Wing and

South Wing) both with two storeys. Stairs from the courtyard lead up to the

first floor timber framed walkways of each wing. These walkways are largely

modern repairs to and replacements of earlier period timbers. At the base of

the stairs to the North Wing is another water trough.

3.6 The northern extension to the East Elevation forms a façade for the North

Wing. This raises the possibility that the North Wing was also a later

addition or a restructuring of a previously existing wing. The matching

Primary Building Technique suggests that this remodelling was reasonably

soon after the first complex plan was constructed. On the ground floor of

each wing there are doorways which open to cellular rooms or stalls with no

windows. On the first floor of each wing there are doorways opening to

cellular rooms, each with a small window.

3.7 At the far west end of the courtyard is a two storey further building (West

Block) with a similar cellular structure. This block abuts the two wings and

appears be to a later addition to the complex.

3.8 Roofs are of modern repairs of Reconquista period timber with modern

ceramic roof tiles.

3.9 Consequently, the South Wing and its East Elevation are the earliest,

Reconquista period, elements of the complex, although the North Wing and

West Block may have existed coevally in some form. The North Wing and



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its East Elevation were remodelled or added at a later date but probably still

within the Reconquista period.

3.10 The Primary Building Technique employed in the Imperial period was large,

hand-moulded, rectangular, fired clay brick, in regular coursing in thick

mortar used in repairs and infills to Reconquista period openings. The

Primary Building Technique was visible in the east elevation [Fig. 104f]

around the Door to Room A, the Ground Floor Window to Room A and the

First Floor Windows. The larger Reconquista period doorway was infilled to

form a narrower entrance. The Ground Floor and First Floor Windows were

formed in larger doorway openings and a First Floor balcony inserted. This

brickwork infilling was a skilled activity to achieve true returns around the

doors and windows. Basic timber scaffolding experience would have been

necessary to support (prop) the loading of the walls whilst the larger lintels

were being removed and replaced with smaller ones. The insertion of the

balcony would have been a straight-forward carpentry task once a deck of

scaffolding was in place at First Floor level. These would have been the kind

of small scale insertion works easily carried out by journeyman bricklayers

and carpenters without the need for a master craftsman or designer. The

patron of the Posada would not necessarily have had to engage with the

guilds if jobbing workmen were available. The insertion works left scars in

the façade now visible as stratigraphy, which probably meant that the

elevation was rendered at this time if the patron trying to elevate the status of

the building by the insertion of the balcony.

3.11 The impression given is that of Reconquista commercial entrances for goods

and visitors replaced by Imperial period domestic features. Although Door A

was still large enough to admit carts, it is difficult to see how horses or

carriages would get through this opening. It must therefore have been

restricted to pedestrian traffic and perhaps donkey deliveries. This Imperial

period remodelling suggests a change in use of the building complex. The

stabling around the courtyard would no longer have been able to

accommodate large numbers of visiting horse traders. Although commercial

storage would still have been viable. In the late 15th-century, the horse



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market outside in the plaza was greatly reduced in size (Daroca Bruño et al.

2003: 151) and this probably meant fewer visiting horse-traders. The East

Block would have been subject to less commercial traffic. Therefore, the size

reductions in the openings may indicate a greater domestication of this East

Block or perhaps transition into a mixed use chamber block that included

workshop spaces as well as dwelling spaces. The balconied doorway on the

First Floor suggests that this upper-storey room took on a more formal

function. The balcony could have provided a vantage point for the host and

guests to oversee the market below whilst being conspicuously visible.

Withdrawal into the First Floor rooms could have been for formal dining or

confidential trade in an exclusive space. If the horse market trade was on the

decline, it seems likely that the patron was attempting to diversify his/ her

business by the remodelling of the building. The ability to oversee the market

from the balcony may have been useful to a market inspector or dominant

horse merchant. It may also have provided the vehicle for such a middling

merchant to assert his influence in public events when aspiring to a more

elevated position in public life.


4.1 The Posada del Potro is located in the Plaza del Potro and is an inn dated to

the 13th and 14th centuries. It was frequented by Miguel de Cervantes,

Francisco Gómez de Quevedo and Luís de Góngora, who refer to it in their

works an was one of six inns that existed in the square in the late medieval

period (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 151). It is located in a neighbourhood of

livestock trading, which was the commercial heart of the city in the earlier

middle ages (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 151). A nearby street fair took place

for livestock markets especially foals (Romeo & Gómez 2005). The building

is arranged around a central courtyard with stables, rooms on both ground

and first floors. The building served as a mission inn until 1972 (Romeo &

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Fig. DB104a: Aerial view of the building structure in its neighbourhood


Fig. DB104b.: Aerial view of the building structure in close-up.




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north on 27.10.10.

Fig. 104e: East aspect viewed from the

north on 29.10.08.

Fig. 104d: East aspect on 27.10.10

Fig. 104f: East aspect viewed from the

south on 29.10.08.



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Looking East 29.10.08 Looking North East 29.10.08

Looking East 27.10.10 Looking South East 27.10.10

Fig. 104g Ground Floor Courtyard



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Drawing Nos. 104.1 & 104.2

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7.0 Bibliography

Daroca Bruño, F., Yllescas Ortiz, M. & De La Fuente Darder, F. (eds.) 2003: Córdoba: Guía De Arquitectura. Córdoba: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectura de Córdoba. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Hugonnet-Berger, C., Fromaget, B., Reveillon, E. & Francois, B. 2007: Hotel-Dieu De Beaune. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art. Jurica, J. 1994: Gloucester: A Pictorial History. Chichester: Philimore. Lancaster, J. C. 1981: St. Mary's Hall, Coventry: A Guide to the Building, Its History and Contents. Coventry: City of Coventry. Munby, J., Ashdown, J., Durham, B., Haddon-Reece, D., Henig, M. & Jeuckens, C. 1992: Zacharias's: A 14th-Century Oxford New Inn and the Origins of the Medieval Urban Inn. Oxoniensia 57, p. 245-309. Newman, J. & Pevsner, N. 2006: The Buildings of England: Shropshire. Newhaven: Yale University Press. Pevsner, N. 1960: The Buildings of England: Leicestershire & Rutland. London: Penguin. Privat 1983: Histoire De Colmar. Toulouse: Privat. Romeo, A. & Gómez, S. 2005: Cordobapedia. (eds, A. Romeo & S. Gómez) http://wikanda.cordobapedia.es/, Cordoba.



10 metres10 metresSurvey Reference: DB104 Drawing No: 104.1Building Short Name: Posada del PotroAddress: No.10 Plaza del Potro, Córdoba, SpainScale: 1:200 Sheet Size: ISO A4

Ground Floor Plan

Up

Up

Courtyard

Room A

South Wing

North Wing

Water TroughWater Trough

WestBlock

East Elevation

10 metres10 metresSurvey Reference: DB104 Drawing No: 104.2Building Short Name: Posada del PotroAddress: No.10 Plaza del Potro, Córdoba, SpainScale: 1:200 Sheet Size: ISO A4

First Floor Plan

South Wing

North Wing

Courtyard

Walkways

Room B

WestBlock


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1.1

Building Short Name

Archivo Municipal

1.2 Variant Names Municipal Archives

Casa Guzman, House of Guzman

1.3 Address No.6 Plaza del Profesor López Neyra,

Córdoba, Spain



Designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.).



Preservation is High (3) as many Imperial

period elements have been retained in the

modern building.

Legibility is Medium (2) as the walls are

partially plastered and rendered.

Accessibility is Medium (2) as the Imperial

period elements are partially obscured by

modern elements.

Stratigraphical Complexity is Low (1) as first

inspection indicated that the structure spanned

only the Imperial period.


1.7 Primary Building Technique Stone; very large; ashlar; rectangular, regular

coursing; thin mortar.



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2.1 Reconquista period house or palace of earliest suggested date 15th century

with Imperial and Modern period additions. It is currently a Ministry of

Culture office.

2.2 The building is located on a narrow street opposite a plaza in the parish of

Santa Maria north-west of the Mezquita.

2.3 The main (east) entrance is via timber double leaf door (Door A). There are 2

storeys above ground plus roof space.


3.1 Foundations and walls are of Andalusían limestone and rise to a height of

8.90m at the highest point. Walls are mostly rendered in sand and cement but

some areas are exposed.

3.2 Door A is headed by a Mudéjar-style alfiz with an heraldic motif – the Hoces

family coat of arms - characteristic of the 15th or 16th century (Daroca Bruño

et al. 2003: 127). In the East elevation on the ground floor there are three

rectangular window openings to the south of Door A and one similar to the

north of Door A. On the First Floor there are three rectangular window

openings to the south of Door A and one similar to the north of Door A with

a balcony plinth (Window A). Above door A on the First Floor there is a

larger window headed by a segmented arch (Window B), which is balconied.

3.3 Door A leads to an entrance hall with rooms off to the north and south, which

leads in turn to a galleried courtyard area. The Courtyard (6.90 by 6.70

metres) is of comparable dimensions to the Casa Andalusí [DB101] and is

encircled by a series of brickwork round-arches atop stonework columns in a

Mudéjar style. It is possible that these arches survive from Reconquista

period or earlier but were evidently employed in the Imperial period

Courtyard. The Ground Floor has a number of rooms off from the Courtyard,

which are also accessible from a long narrow western gallery that may have

once been a rear service passageway. The East Block has lost its medieval

staircase to the First Floor. Its large open Ground Floor and First Floor rooms

would have looked out on to the plaza outside, and provided sufficient space



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for further service areas and formal dining. Window B would have been

large enough for a host and guest to make a formal appearance overlooking

the plaza.

3.4 Roofs are tiled with 20th century ceramic roof tiles.


4.1 The Municipal Archives are reputed to be the house of the Guzman family,

although the family coat of arms above the entrance belongs to the Hoces

family. The entrance consists of a solid stone gateway with Mudejar-style

alfiz, leading to interior courtyards. Beyond the entrance hall is the courtyard

with rounded arches framed by alfiz and brickwork pillars. The staircase was

built in 1609, and has a cupola above and ornate banisters (Daroca Bruño et

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north.


south

Fig. 105d: East aspect

Fig. 105f: Courtyard viewed from the

north-west



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Drawing No. 105.1

1 Page A4 Size



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7.0 Bibliography

Daroca Bruño, F., Yllescas Ortiz, M. & De La Fuente Darder, F. (eds.) 2003: Córdoba: Guía De Arquitectura. Córdoba: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectura de Córdoba. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Ministerio de Cultura n.d.: Bien De Interés Cultural: La Base De Datos De Bienes Inmuebles. http://www.mcu.es/bienes/cargarFiltroBienesInmuebles.do?layout=bienesInmuebles&cache=init&language=es.




10 metres10 metresSurvey Reference: 105 Drawing No: 105.1Building Short Name: Archivo Municipal Address: Plaza del Profesor López Neyra Córdoba, SpainScale: 1:200 Sheet Size: ISO A4

East Elevation

Ground Floor Plan

Door A

Window A

Door A

Window B

Courtyard

Gallery

Gallery

Gallery

EntranceLobby

ChamberBlock



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1.1 Building Short Name The Abolafia

1.2 Variant Names El Molino de la Abolafia

El Molino de Kulaib,

The Abolafia Watermill

1.3 Address Ronda de Isasa, Córdoba, Spain


Easting -4.780°


Designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.)



Preservation is Low (1). It retains only one

complete storey with no roof and walls are is a

state of disrepair.

Legibility is Medium (2). Its walls have no

coverings but are partially obscured by

vegetation.

Accessibility is Low (1). The building is

offshore and inaccessible to measured survey.



phases spanned at least 2 periods – Moorish

and Reconquista.


1.7 Primary Building Technique Stone; large upon very large; dressed; well

squared; regular; thick mortar.



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2.1 Moorish period water mill of earliest suggested date 12th century with

modern reconstructions. It is currently a monumental ruin and tourist

attraction.

2.2 The building is located on the north bank of the River Guadalquivir in the

parish of Santa Maria south-east of the Mezquita.


3.1 The earliest elements are visible in the foundations and walls and are of

Andalusían limestone and rise to a height of approximately 12m above the

river bank.

3.2 The building is rectilinear on plan in 2 sections either side of the wheel and

mountings. The northern section has a semi-circular promontory to the east.

Each of the sections is subdivided into rooms with feature evidence of

industrial activity. The southern section has a surviving ogival arched Alfiz

characteristic of the Caliphal and Moorish periods.


4.1 This mill is situated next to the Roman Bridge on the northern bank of the

River Guadalquivir. It was built under Abd al-Rahman II in the 9th century

and remodelled in the 12th century to carry river water up to the Emir's palace

by means of a Ferris wheel and an aqueduct (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 108;

Montejo Córdoba 2003: 181). Amongst its remains are a semicircular arch

with an Alfiz and the foot of the aqueduct that transported water to the

nearby gardens of the Alcázar. From the 16th century it was used as a mill

(Montejo Córdoba 2003: 181). Since the 14th century, this water wheel has

appeared on the city's coat of arms. The water wheel was restored in the 20th

century having been dismantled by order of Queen Isabel 'La Católica' who

disliked the noise it produced so close to the royal residence (Ayuntamiento

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4.2 The wheel consisted of three elements: the main wooden wheel, 15m in

diameter, which collected water, the support wheel, and the channel for water

uptake (Montejo Córdoba 2003: 181).



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Fig. 106c: North aspect viewed from

the west.

Fig. 106e: Ogival arch alfiz

Fig. 106d: West aspect

Fig. 106f: Internal aspect from the

north



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Drawing No. 106.1

1 Page A4 Size



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7.0 Bibliography

Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.: Córdoba: Oficinas De Información Turística (Ed, A. d. Córdoba) Ayuntamiento de Córdoba, Córdoba. Daroca Bruño, F., Yllescas Ortiz, M. & De La Fuente Darder, F. (eds.) 2003: Córdoba: Guía De Arquitectura. Córdoba: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectura de Córdoba. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue. http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Ministerio de Cultura n.d.: Bien De Interés Cultural: La Base De Datos De Bienes Inmuebles. http://www.mcu.es/bienes/cargarFiltroBienesInmuebles.do?layout=bienesInmuebles&cache=init&language=es. Montejo Córdoba, A.-J. 2003. La Qurtuba Islámica: La Abolafia. In: D. Vaquerizo Gil (ed.) Guía Archaeológica De Córdoba, p. 181-182. Cordoba: Plurabelle.




10 metres10 metresSurvey Reference: DB106 Drawing No: 106.1Building Short Name: El Molino de Albolafia Address: Ronda de Isasa Córdoba, SpainScale: NTS Sheet Size: ISO A4

Ground Floor Plan

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1.1 Building Short Name Puente Romano

1.2 Variant Names The Roman Bridge

1.3 Address Ronda de Isasa, Córdoba, Spain

1.4

Location Co-ordinates

Northing 37.877°

Easting -4.778°

1.5 Statutory and non-statutory

designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.).



Preservation is Medium (2). Its Roman and

Medieval period element have been well

conserved but it has been subject to

considerable modern reconstruction.

Legibility is High (3). Its walls have no

coverings.

Accessibility is High (3). The structure is


Stratigraphical Complexity is High (3). First

inspection indicated that the structure’s phases



1.7 Primary building Technique Stone; very large; dressed; well squared;




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2.1 Roman period bridge across the River Guadalquivir rebuilt and remodelled in

the Moorish, Reconquista and Modern periods. The earliest proposed date is

1st century. The structure is currently a pedestrian thoroughfare.

2.2 The structure is approached via the Plaza del Triunfo on the north bank due

south of the Mezquita and via the gardens adjacent to La Calahorra on the

south bank.

3.0 Statement of Materials and Dates

3.1 The structure is constructed of Andalucían limestone reinforced by modern

concrete foundations.

3.2 The structure is 292m long between the abutments and 8.1m wide at its

widest point.

3.3 The structure has 16 supporting arches, 12 of which are rounded arches and

may survive from the Moorish period. These rounded arches are likely to

have stemmed from the 10th century or earlier from the deduction that

pointed arches were in widespread use in the Islamic cities by that time and

replaced them as an engineering solution. Arches A, B, C, & D are pointed

arches with associated limestone carved archivolts. These arches can be

safely dated to the 13th century as the high carbon steel tools necessary for

this type of High Gothic carving was not widely available before then

(Geddes 2001: 168-73).


4.1 The bridge underwent reconstruction in the 8th and 9th centuries that gave it

its present appearance, although the contour elevation of the outermost

arches was raised in the 20th century (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 83). The

semicircular arches, the horizontal causeway and the upstream cut waters

originate from the Roman period, while the blinding arches on several

openings and the archivolts of the extrados denote its medieval

reconstruction (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 83).



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Fig. 107c: West aspect viewed from

the south.

Fig. 107e: West aspect viewed from

the south-west

Fig. 107g: Southern arches viewed

from the south-east


south

Fig. 107f: Arch D viewed from the

south

Fig. 107g: Southern gatehouse viewed

from the north



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Drawing No. 107.1

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7.0 Bibliography

Daroca Bruño, F., Yllescas Ortiz, M. & De La Fuente Darder, F. (eds.) 2003: Córdoba: Guía De Arquitectura. Córdoba: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectura de Córdoba. Geddes, J. 2001. Iron. In: J. Blair & N. Ramsey (eds.): English Medieval Industries : Craftsmen, Techniques, Products, p. 167-188. London: Hambledon and London. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Ministerio de Cultura n.d.: Bien De Interés Cultural: La Base De Datos De Bienes Inmuebles. http://www.mcu.es/bienes/cargarFiltroBienesInmuebles.do?layout=bienesInmuebles&cache=init&language=es.




East Elevation

River Front

Plan

40 metres

Survey Reference:DB107 Drawing No:107.1Building Short Name: Puente Romano Address: Ronda de Isasa, Córdoba, SpainScale: 1:1250 Sheet Size: ISO A4

La Calahorra

Arch A Arch B Arch C Arch D



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1.1 Building Short Name The Calahorra

1.2 Variant Names El Torre de la Calahorra

The Calahorra Tower

1.3 Address Puente Romano,

Córdoba, Spain


Easting -4.777°


Designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.).



Preservation is High (3). It retains several

storeys, a roof and has been well conserved by

its owners.


coverings and it is not obscured by vegetation

or other structures.

Accessibility is High (3). There are no major

obstacles or impediments and the majority of

the building is open to the public.



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2.1 Moorish and Reconquista period gate house to the Puente Romano of earliest

proposed date 12th century (Collins 1998: 118; Daroca Bruño et al. 2003:

82). It is currently a museum and tourist attraction.

2.2 The building is located on southern end of the Puente Romano due south of

the Mezquita.

2.3 The sole (north) entrance is via a timber double leaf door directly from the

bridge to an entrance hall (Room A) on an Upper Ground Floor level. The

building has four storeys above ground including a Lower Ground Floor

level plus a fortified roof area.


3.1 Foundations and external walls are of Andalucían limestone construction.

External walls are visible to roof height and unrendered. The earliest

elements are visible in the foundations [Fig. 108i] and beneath the horseshoe

arch of the Door A [Fig. 108f]. The foundations are of very large undressed

stone blocks in irregular coursing with thick mortar. The foundations have

been subject to several phases of renovation. There is an evident horizontal

discontinuity line above which later more regular and smaller blocks form

the ground floor wall (Fig. 108i). There is no clear dating evidence other than

this stratigraphical relationship.

3.2 The building is entered from the via a double leaf timber front door in the

north elevation (Door A). Door A is headed by a rounded limestone arch.

Above door A are the remains of a stone staircase leading up to a doorway at

First Floor level. The bottom of the staircase is terminated by modern

concrete. Surrounding both doorways is a large slightly pointed horseshoe

arch in limestone on limestone pilasters, which appear consistent with a

Moorish period date as it denotative of the 9th and 10th-century arches of the

Mezquita and Madinat al-Zahra (Fig. 108f). The existence of this Moorish

period archway above the foundations suggests that the foundations

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arch has been infilled with large stones to create the entrance at First floor

level, which appears to have lost its staircase leading up from Upper Ground

Floor level and Door A is now visible from the north.

3.3 Above the horseshoe arch an entrance façade rises to Second Floor height

including crenulations around the balconied top, which remains in part. The

façade has been repaired in modern brickwork and concrete. 2 windows open

on to the balcony at Second Floor level both are headed by rounded

limestone arches. Above the window openings are the remains of decorative

crenulations, which are stylistic and likely to date from the late Reconquista

period.

3.4 The east side of the North Elevation has been subject to a rebuilding phase in

smaller stone blocks than the west side. These stone blocks are large (larger

than the hand) in thick mortar in irregular bond. The Second Floor and Roof

levels have also been subject to such rebuilding in similar stone blocks in

thick mortar in irregular bond. The Roof level has stylistic crenulations in

similar stone blocks that are likely to date to the late Reconquista period.

3.5 It is possible that the larger stone blocks on the western side of the North

Elevation, the West, and South Elevations represent a construction phase of

the Reconquista period by Enrique II and the rebuilding to the eastern side

and the Second Floor upwards represent his more decorative later

Reconquista period remodelling. In other words, the eastern tower was

formed later in the period and abutted to the earlier walls of the gatehouse.

This abutment can be identified in the South Elevation [Fig. 108d]. The

North Elevation is pierced by inserted view holes and gargoyles possibly

dating to an Imperial period remodelling.

3.6 There is a curtain wall at a low, Upper Ground Floor level built in limestone

that has been rebuilt in the Modern period. The southern section has areas of

roughly dressed stone repaired with rubble walling in thick mortar that are

distinct from the Primary Building Technique of the Reconquista period.

This curtain wall is therefore likely to date from the Imperial period and

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3.7 Door A on the Upper Ground Floor leads in to an entrance hall (Room A)

with interior walls in stonework and a barrel ceiling in brickwork. It is

possible that this barrel ceiling survives from the Moorish period but the

building technique, of large brickwork in thick mortar in stretcher and header

bond, is consistent in construction with the barrel ceiling in the Molino del

Martos [DB117], which has been dated to the Reconquista period

(Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.; Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 108).

3.8 East and west of Room A are further chambers (Rooms B&C) both with

stonework internal walls and cupola ceilings in brickwork. The cupola

brickwork is in thick mortar and stretcher bond. This decorative brick

probably dates to the later Reconquista period rebuild as it occurs in the

eastern tower.

3.9 The staircase provides access to each of the upper floors including the Roof

level. The First Floor has rectangular rooms with stonework interior walls in

thick mortar and more decorative brickwork cupola ceilings in the same

building technique as the Upper Ground Floor ceiling. It seems likely that the

decorative cupola ceilings are coeval with the later Reconquista, more

decorative rebuilding phase. It would have been possible to insert these

brickwork ceilings into the building without disturbing the stonework of the

upper floors. The Second Floor has rectangular rooms with stonework

interior walls that merge into stonework barrel ceilings in thick mortar in

fairly regular stretcher bond.


4.1 At the south end of the Roman Bridge stands a tower on the foundations of

an earlier Islamic building (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 82). Recent

archaeological excavations carried out in the Field of Truth - the site

occupied by the former Posada del Puente, south of the current tower - have

manifested the existence of a large rectangular walled enclosure, built with

formwork walls of mud flanked by towers at the corners, like a fortress,

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the second half of the twelfth century, in the Almohade period, as a

reinforcement of the defenses around the Alcázar, as strategical location for

the protection of Seville. This is probably the fortification mentioned in the

Christian chronicles (Léon Muños 2003: 212).

4.2 The gatehouse was rebuilt by in the 14th century Enrique II de Trastamara

during the Civil Wars with his brother Pedro I 'The Cruel', and its strategic

position as gateway to the city lent it great importance in military history

(Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 82). A third tower was added in 1369 (Daroca

Bruño et al. 2003: 82) by Enrique II (Léon Muños 2003: 213), the Spanish

civil war victor, who proceeded to repair the castle fortress making it

freestanding. To this phase belongs the coat of arms of Castile and Leon

narrow slits that open to flank the road. It was used as a prison for nobility

from 1369 (Collins 1998: 118). Polygonal in shape, with hardly any

openings, the two main towers are linked by an archway, which leads to the

inside.

During the second half of the fifteenth century, La Calahorra is packed with

new defensive elements, such as cross and orb pockets designed to put pieces

of artillery of powder. These works must be ascribed to the period of control

of the city by Alfonso de Aguilar, during the civil wars of Castile. Finally,

the barrier or low wall surrounding the south's Calahorra must date from the

early sixteenth century, as reflected in which documents of 1514 in which

Queen Joanna calls this conclusion "the matron and barrier in La Calahorra"

(Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.).

4.3 It was named a Historic-Artistic Monument at the turn of the 20th century,

and nowadays, after various uses, such as a prison or a school, it houses the

Roger Garaudy Museum of the peaceful co-existence between the Jewish,

Christian and Moslem cultures (Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.; Collins

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Fig. 108c: North aspect

Fig. 108e: South aspect

Fig. 108g: South aspect from the

south-east

Fig. 108d: South-East aspect

Fig. 108f: North aspect and Door A

Fig. 108h: Roof level looking south



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Fig. 108i: North Elevation Foundations



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Fig. 108j: Room A looking south Fig. 108k: Room C looking north

Fig. 108l: Room B looking north Fig. 108m: First Floor Room looking north

Fig. 108n: First Floor Room Fig. 108o: Second Floor Room



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Addenda

Drawing Nos. 108.1, 108.2 & 108.3

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7.0 Bibliography

Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.: Córdoba: Oficinas De Información Turística. (ed. Ayuntamiento de Córdoba) Ayuntamiento de Córdoba, Córdoba. Collins, R. 1998: Spain: An Oxford Archaeological Guide. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Daroca Bruño, F., Yllescas Ortiz, M. & De La Fuente Darder, F. (eds.) 2003: Córdoba: Guía De Arquitectura. Córdoba: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectura de Córdoba. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Léon Muños, A. 2003. La Córdoba Cristiana: La Fortaleza De La Calahorra. In: J. Fernández (ed.) Guía Archaeológica De Córdoba, p. 211-214. Córdoba: Plurabelle. Ministerio de Cultura n.d.: Bien De Interés Cultural: La Base De Datos De Bienes Inmuebles. http://www.mcu.es/bienes/cargarFiltroBienesInmuebles.do?layout=bienesInmuebles&cache=init&language=es.




10 metres10 metresSurvey Reference:DB108 Drawing No:108.1Building Short Name: La CalahorraAddress: Puente Romano, Córdoba, SpainScale: 1:200 Sheet Size: ISO A4

Upper Ground Floor Plan

Door A

Room ARoo

m B

Roo

m C

Door B

10 metres10 metresSurvey Reference:DB108 Drawing No:108.2Building Short Name: La CalahorraAddress: Puente Romano, Córdoba, SpainScale: 1:200 Sheet Size: ISO A4

North Elevation

20 metres (approx.)

Survey Reference:DB108 Drawing No:108.3Building Short Name: La CalahorraAddress: Puente Romano, Córdoba, SpainScale: <NTS> Sheet Size: ISO A4

Door A

Room ARoo

m B

Roo

m C

Door B



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1.1

Building Short Name

Alcázar

1.2

Variant Names

Moorish Alcázar

Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos

Castle of the Christian Monarchs

Alcázar Reales

1.3

Address

Campo Santo de los Mártires, Córdoba, Spain

1.4


Northing 37.876° Easting -4.781°

1.5

Statutory & Non-statutory

Designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.).



Preservation is Medium (2).

Legibility is Medium (2).

Accessibility is Low (1).

Stratigraphical Complexity is High (3).


1.7 Primary Building Technique 1200AD: Stone; very large; ashlar;


1400AD: Stone; very large; ashlar;


1600AD: Stone; large bonded with very large;

dressed; rectangular; regular coursing; thick

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2.1 Caliphate/ Moorish period fortress of earliest known date late 8th century

with additions in the 10th century (Léon Muños et al. 2003: 144-7). The

surviving remains consist of the Baños Caliphales and excavated foundations

of a fortified keep, the Alcazaba.

2.2 The remains are located within the Castle of the Christian Monarchs on the

plaza Campo Santo de los Mártires in the parish of Santa Maria south-east of

the Mezquita.

2.3 The main (north-west) entrance is via timber double leaf door (Door A)

through an arched vestibule.


3.1 Foundations are of Andalusían limestone

3.2 At the corners of the north wall are the towers known as Torre de los Leones

and Torre del Homenaje. The Torre de los Leones employs the Primary

Building Technique of very large rectangular stonework in regular coursing

with thick mortar. It has a gate with a pointed Gothic arch [Fig. 109g] and is

orthogonal on plan. The Torre del Homenaje has an octagonal layout

characteristic of 13th-14th-century Gothic-Mudéjar constructions (Iglesias

Costa 1989: 28; 166; 250) and also employs the Primary Building Technique.

Both towers, at Roof level, have stylistic embrasure crenulations with

pyramidal stone copings that are a recurrent grammatical theme in the

Calahorra [DB108] and the Puerta de Almodóvar [DB112]. These pyramidal

embrasures, atop tower fortifications and gate façades are synonymous with

the early Mudéjar style of architecture, which was used to adorn palaces and

fortifications throughout post-conquest Castile (Cabañero Subiza 1998: 84-

5). These stylistically fortified towers, consequently, can be dated to the

Reconquista period of Córdoba.

3.3 The Primary Building Technique employed during the Imperial period was

large bonded with very large, dressed stonework in regular coursing in thick

mortar and can be identified in the surviving internal wall elements [Fig.

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Courtyard. The foundations of an octagonal tower, the Torre de la

Inquisición, remain at the south-western corner of the complex to abut the

Reconquista period perimeter walls. The walls of this tower are a modern

construction.


4.1 The Alcázar which previously had been Visigoth governor's palace was the

centre of political power, in al-Andalus from the first decades of the 8th

century until the fall of the Caliphate of Cordoba in the early 11th century. It

also played a prominent role until the Castilian conquest in 1236.Today the

Alcázar can only be recognized in the bathrooms located in Plazza del Campo

Santo de los Mártires. However there remain important sections of the North

and East Walls, in the façade of the Palacio Episcopal and the Palacio de

Congresos y Exposiciones facing the Calle Torrijos (Léon Muños et al. 2003:

144).

4.2 After the conquest of the city, Fernando III reserved the south-west corner of

the Alcázar for the establishment of a royal residence. The first nucleus of the

complex building was created in this period and consisted of a rectangular

enclosure built against the city’s south wall. During the reign of Alfonso XI

the Alcázar was extended into grounds located to the south of the ramparts,

then occupied by the Convent of the Augustinian Order which was moved in

1328 to the present Iglesia de San Agustín. This enlargement gave the site its

present square proportions and brought about the disappearance of the wall

that divided it (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 105).

4.3 The Alcázar was the residence of the Castilian monarchs in the city until 1482

when it passed over to the Inquisition, which in the following centuries

transformed its interior in order to incorporate 17th-century cells and a church.

After the suppression of the Tribunal of the Inquisition, the Alcázar housed the

city’s gaol (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 105).

4.4 Located at the corners of the north wall are the towers known Torre as de los

Leones and Torre del Homenaje, belonging to the first enclosure of the 13th

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way of a gate with a gothic arch; it has a square layout and on its upper floor

there is a magnificent room covered by an octagonal groined vault. The other

tower has an octagonal layout and a hexagonal upper room with an ogival

vault; next to the room is a covered observatory that was added in the 18th

century (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 105)

4.5 The inside is taken up by H-shaped bays that liberate two spaces; the

Mudéjar patio, which contains the remains of the palatial structures that

make up the garden of Islamic influence, and the Old Patio of Arms (Daroca

Bruño et al. 2003: 105). The old chapel, a rectangular nave with a groined

barrel vault and square sanctuary with a dome and a lantern, is the present

Hall of Mosaics. Below it are the baths, Arab in their deign but Christian in

their construction (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 105).

4.6 The huge stretch of irrigated land includes an initial phase of Renaissance

gardens with elevated water tanks, following the line of the city ramparts that

no-longer exists, and a lower garden, dominated by the Tower of the

Inquisition, a mid 15th-century construction with a circular floor plan

crowned by an octagon (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 105).

4.7 Excavations have revealed that the Moorish period Alcázar was a pisé and

limestone-built complex arranged around a very large, central open area of

approximately 1.5 hectares. Residential areas and government offices were

positioned at the east end of the open area. The Caliphal family cemetery, the

Rawda, was to the south. A fortified keep, the Alcazaba, was positioned in

the south-west corner and the Baños Caliphales to the north-west (Léon

Muños et al. 2003: 146). Each of the four cardinal walls was pierced by two

gates, the positions of which respected the axes of earlier, Roman period

street lines. The largest gate, the Bab al-Sudda, opened in the east end of the

southern wall onto a large open parade ground, the Hassa, along the

waterfront. The Bab al-Sudda possessed a form of platform roof from which

the rulers or governors of the Alcázar were reported to have watched military

parades and public executions that were carried out in the Hassa (Léon

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Fig. 109c: North aspect of the Castle of

the Christian Monarchs

Fig. 109e: North-east aspect of the

Castle of the Christian Monarchs


Fig. 109d: Section of the Alcázar east

wall remaining in the Palacio

Episcopal (Léon Muños et al. 2003:

147).

Fig. 109f: Baños Califales beneath the

Campo Santo de los Mártires



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Fig. 109g: Torre de los Leones

Fig. 109h: Internal Walls of Complex



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7.0 Bibliography

Cabañero Subiza, B. 1998: La Alijafería. Zaragoza: Cortes de Aragón. Daroca Bruño, F., Yllescas Ortiz, M. & De La Fuente Darder, F. (eds.) 2003: Córdoba: Guía De Arquitectura. Córdoba: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectura de Córdoba. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Iglesias Costa, M. 1989: Arquitectura Sacra: Desde El Period Gótico (Siglo Xiii) Hasta La Actualidad. Zaragoza: Gobierno de Aragon. Léon Muños, A., Monterroso Checa, A. & Garriguet Mata, J.-A. 2003. La Qurtuba Islámica: El Alcázar Andalusí. In: J. Fernández (ed.) Guía Archaeológica De Córdoba, p. 144-147. Córdoba: Plurabelle. Ministerio de Cultura n.d.: Bien De Interés Cultural: La Base De Datos De Bienes Inmuebles. http://www.mcu.es/bienes/cargarFiltroBienesInmuebles.do?layout=bienesInmuebles&cache=init&language=es.




20 metres (approx.)

Survey Reference: DB109 Drawing No: 109.1Building Short Name: Moorish AlcázarAddress: Campo Santo de los Mártires, Córdoba, SpainScale: <NTS> Sheet Size: ISO A4

Alcázar Reales

Torre de los Leones Torre del Homenaje

Torre de la Inquisicion



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1.1 Building Short Name Baños Árabes

1.2 Variant Names Baños Árabes de Santa María.

Arab Bath-house of St. Mary.

1.3 Address No. 10 Calle Valázquez Bosco,

Córdoba, Spain



Designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.).




surviving medieval walls.

Legibility is Medium (2). Some of its walls

have been rendered and painted.

Accessibility is Medium (2). The majority of

rooms are publically accessible but some are

concealed behind modern building elements.

Stratigraphical Complexity is High (3). Phases

spanned at least 2 or 3 periods.


1.7 Primary Building Technique Moorish: Stone; very large; rough worked;

part squared; broken rangework; thick mortar.

Reconquista: Fired clay brickwork; large;

hand-moulded; rectangular; regular coursing;

thick mortar.

Imperial: Fired clay brickwork; large; wire

cut; rectangular; regular coursing; thick

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2.1 Moorish period Hammam bathhouse of earliest proposed date 10th century

(Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 134). It is currently a museum and tourist

attraction.

2.2 The building is located on a narrow street running north-south in the parish

of Santa Maria due north of the Mezquita.


street to an entrance vestibule. The building has two storeys above ground

plus roof space. The second storey and roof space are of modern construction

and in use as a private house entered via Calle Céspedes.


3.1 External walls and foundations are of local clay brickwork construction.

External brickwork walls are rendered with sand and cement to roof height

abut patches of brickwork are visible through the render.

3.2 The building is entered from the street via a double leaf timber front door in

the east elevation. The east elevation is a brickwork façade at ground floor

level. The façade has been constructed in front of the Moorish period

stonework suggesting that it is likely to date from the Reconquista period or

later. The doorway opens to brickwork steps leading down to a Courtyard at

a lower ground floor level approximately 1 metre below the later built up

street level. This entrance has been inserted in the east wall of the hammam

and appears to have been part of a Reconquista period remodelling. A

western entrance to the hammam from Calle Valázquez Bosco is now

enclosed and concealed by the modern house.

3.3 The Courtyard has been subject to some remodelling. Repairs to the

stonework arches have been made in clay brickwork in the same building

technique as the east façade, which probably dates it to the Reconquista

period (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 134). The courtyard has been subject to

modern restoration imitating the style of hammans known elsewhere in Spain

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(9.10 by 8.36 metres internally) arranged around reused marble columns with

foliate capitals can be stylistically dated to 10th century or earlier. One of the

column capitals is of Visigothic date but all the others are Caliphate

ataurique (plaster foliage) work (Collins 1998: 119). In the south-west corner

of the Courtyard on the south wall, brickwork and a painted horseshoe arch

survive, which can be stylistically dated to the Caliphal period. Similar

arches are visible in the 3 other corners on the north and south walls, which

may be of similar Caliphal dates (Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.; Rodriguez

2006). The horseshoe arches of the north, south and west walls of the

Courtyard have been infilled with brickwork and stonework. On the north

wall there is an infilled arch with a doorway (Door B) inserted. In the east

wall there are 2 doorways leading into the adjacent chamber (Room A). The

largest doorway (Door A) is central. The other doorway (Door C) is infilled

with brickwork. The overall result was to create a garden courtyard entrance

to the hot room (Room A).

3.4 Room A (3.41 by 8.30 metres internally) is constructed with Andalucían

limestone stonework walls, and has a stonework barrel roof to a height of

3.35 metres with rectangular roof lights now infilled. There are 2 doorways

in the east wall infilled with brickwork and a doorway in each of the north

and south walls now infilled. These doorways led to the furnace areas and

changing rooms to the east of Room A (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 134). In

the centre of the east wall, there is a brickwork pointed arch leading to a

tunnel exceeding 10 metres long. At the southern end of the west wall there

are 2 lantern sockets.

3.5 The floors in both the courtyard and Room A are raised to a higher level than

the arch and doorway bases indicating that they date to a later period.


4.1 The Arab baths of Santa Maria were baths for public use which constitute one

of the few preserved examples of a once popular and abundant type of

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Imperial periods. They were built during the Caliphate and rebuilt in the 14th

century in Mudéjar style (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 134). It was declared

Bienes de Interés Cultural on 30 April 2001 (Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.;

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south.

Fig. 110e: Front (east) entrance door


Fig. 110d: Street setting viewed from

the north.

Fig. 110f: Front (east) entrance door



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Looking East Looking North

Looking North-East Marble column Capital

Limestone horseshoe arch in Infilled arched doorway from

South-West Corner of the Courtyard Room A into Courtyard

Fig. 110g Lower Ground Floor Courtyard



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Looking North Looking South


Tunnel Looking East Lantern Socket South-East Corner

Fig. 110h: Room A



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Drawing No. 110.1

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7.0 Bibliography

Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.: Córdoba: Oficinas De Información Turística. (ed. A. d. Córdoba) Ayuntamiento de Córdoba, Córdoba. Collins, R. 1998: Spain: An Oxford Archaeological Guide. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Daroca Bruño, F., Yllescas Ortiz, M. & De La Fuente Darder, F. (eds.) 2003: Córdoba: Guía De Arquitectura. Córdoba: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectura de Córdoba. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Ministerio de Cultura n.d.: Bien De Interés Cultural: La Base De Datos De Bienes Inmuebles. http://www.mcu.es/bienes/cargarFiltroBienesInmuebles.do?layout=bienesInmuebles&cache=init&language=es. Rodriguez, A. 2006: El Dueño Pone a La Venta Los Baños Árabes De Santa María, Del Siglo Xi. In Diario Córdoba 14.02.06.Grupo Zeta, Córdoba.






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1.1 Building Short Name Puerta de Almodóvar

1.2 Variant Names Almodóvar Gate, Bad al-Yawz, Walnut Gate

1.3 Address Calle Cairuán - Calle Ferndez Ruano,

Córdoba, Spain



Designations



(1984/1994). Bien de Interés Cultural

(Nationally Listed as a Building of Cultural

Interest) (Ministerio de Cultura n.d.).



Preservation is Medium (2). Its Medieval

period elements have been well conserved but

it subject to some modern reconstruction.

Legibility is Medium (2). Its walls have no

coverings but post-medieval renovations

obscures parts of the medieval structure.

Accessibility is Medium (2). The structure is

publically accessible but partly obscured by

later buildings.





1.7 Primary Building Technique 1200AD Gate: Stone; large; dressed;


1200AD Walls: Stone; large; undressed;

shaped; regular coursing; thick mortar.

1400AD Gate: Stone; very large; dressed;




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2.1 Moorish period city gate of earliest suggested date 8th century but on Roman

period foundations with additions in the 14th century and restorations in the

19th and 20th centuries (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 121). It is currently a

monumental tourist attraction.

2.2 The building is located on its own plaza in the west wall of the Medina in the

parish of San Nicolas due north of the Mezquita.

2.3 The arched gateway opens over a road running north-east to south west.


3.1 Walls are of large, undressed, irregular stonework construction comparable

with that of the Puerta de Sevilla and therefore likely to date to the 12th

century or earlier. The earliest elements are visible in the north-east

foundations and in the voussoirs of the north-east rounded arch [Fig. 112d].

The walls have renovations in very large irregular Andalusían limestone

likely to date to the Reconquista period and rise to a height of approximately

17m to the battlements (restored in 1802) (Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.).

Walls are unrendered.

3.2 The gateway consists of an internal (north-east) rounded arch in local clay

thin brickwork consistent with a Moorish or earlier date. There is an inserted

timber lintel. There are two fortified external towers forming a façade. These

towers have been added at a later probably Reconquista date as they are in

ashlar stonework. The external (south-west) centred arch and the flat gauged

arch are of Andalucían limestone and are consistent with a Reconquista

period date but with modern repairs.

3.3 The Primary Building Technique of the Reconquista period in the walls

employs very large, dressed, rectangular stonework of regular coursing in

thick mortar. This stonework is distinct from the Moorish period large,

undressed, stonework construction in irregular courses with thick mortar. It is

visible in the repairs to the internal face of the gate [Fig. 112d] and in the

façade of the triumphal flat-gauged archway abutted to the external face of

the earlier gate [Fig. 112c]. The crenulations atop the gate piers and walls are



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of the same Mudéjar pyramidal form as those of La Calahorra [DB108]. The

Reconquista period works therefore can be reasonably dated to the stylistic

and somewhat triumphal building programme of Enrique II from 1369.


4.1 In Calle Cairuán, close to the Castle of the Christian Monarchs, stands the

Almodóvar Gate. This is only surviving gateway into the city of the nine

gates built by Abd al-Rahman I, when it was known as Bad al-Yawz. In the

14th century it was rebuilt and became the entrance to the Jewish Quarter

(Léon Muños 2003: 232). The restoration work in 1802 preserved the

battlements and the walkway in their 14th century form (Ayuntamiento de

Córdoba n.d.; Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 121).

4.2 A stretch of rampart to the south of the gate, the Murallas del Cairuán, has

been conserved running approximately 312 metres towards the Alcázar.

These ramparts, heavily reformed in the 14th century were restored in 1960

with the addition of the moat. At the same time the gate known as La Luna

was opened at the southern end (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 121).



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Fig. 112c: South-west aspect

Fig. 112e: North-east aspect

Fig. 112d: North-east aspect

Fig. 112f: South-west aspect viewed

from the west



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Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.: Córdoba: Oficinas De Información Turística. (ed. Ayuntamiento de Córdoba) Ayuntamiento de Córdoba, Córdoba. Daroca Bruño, F., Yllescas Ortiz, M. & De La Fuente Darder, F. (eds.) 2003: Córdoba: Guía De Arquitectura. Córdoba: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectura de Córdoba. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Léon Muños, A. 2003. La Córdoba Judía. In: J. Fernández (Ed.) Guía Archaeológica De Córdoba, p. 231-234. Córdoba: Plurabelle. Ministerio de Cultura n.d.: Bien De Interés Cultural: La Base De Datos De Bienes Inmuebles. http://www.mcu.es/bienes/cargarFiltroBienesInmuebles.do?layout=bienesInmuebles&cache=init&language=es.




10 metres

Survey Reference:DB112 Drawing No:112.1Building Short Name: Puerta de Almodóvar Address: Calle Ferndez Ruano, Córdoba, SpainScale: 1:200 Sheet Size: ISO A4

Ground Plan

Survey Recorder: D. A. Lenton Survey & Archive Reference: Date of Survey: 02-Nov-10 DB113


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1.1

Building Short Name

Casa del Indiano

1.2

Variant Names

House of the Indian

1.3

Address

Plaza de Angel Torres, Córdoba, Spain

1.4



1.5


Designations



(1984/1994).



Preservation is Low (1) as only the northern

façade of the complex survives.


partially rendered.

Accessibility is High (3) as the structure is



inspection indicated that the structure spanned







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2.1 Imperial period house of earliest known date late 15th century (Daroca Bruño

et al. 2003: 127). The façade survives 2 storeys above ground level. The rest

of the building is a modern construction. It is currently a private apartment

block.

2.2 The building is located on a plaza in the parish of Santa Maria due north of

the Mezquita.

2.3 The main (north) entrance is via timber double leaf door (Door A).


3.1 Foundations and walls of the façade are of Andalusían limestone and rise to a

height of 8.00 metres above ground level. Walls are mostly rendered but

some areas are exposed.

3.2 Door A is a double leaf timber door headed by a decorated stone lintel in a

Gothic Mudéjar stonework style with clamped voussoirs and interlaced arch

motifs of the late 15th century (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 127). The jambs are

decorated with interlaced diamond grid panels comparable with later

medieval sebka panels at the Alhambra in Granada and the Giralda at Seville.

3.3 There is one window on the ground floor with two highly decorative cross-

linked poly-lobed pointed arches in a Mudéjar style. There are two

balconetted windows on the first floor both with two rounded arches with

highly decorative Gothic tracery at the top and plant motifs in a Mudéjar

style dating to the late 15th century (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 127). Although

these windows were subject to restoration in the early 20th century (Vargas

González 2003: 225).

3.4 Roofs are of modern construction and tiled with 20th century ceramic roof

tiles.



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4.1 The once house of the Ceas family (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 127), it was

acquired in the eighteenth century by Don Juan Cosme after making his

fortune in America, hence the popular name of the Indian House. Only the

frontage remains of the medieval construction which opens on to the Plaza

Angel Torres. It contains a decorated lintel under balconies, all in the

Mudéjar style. The building was restored in the 20th century (Ayuntamiento

de Córdoba n.d.).



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Fig. 113e: North aspect Window B

Fig. 113d: North aspect Window A

Fig. 113f: South aspect



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Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.: Córdoba: Oficinas De Información Turística. (ed. Ayuntamiento de Córdoba) Ayuntamiento de Córdoba, Córdoba. Daroca Bruño, F., Yllescas Ortiz, M. & De La Fuente Darder, F. (eds.) 2003: Córdoba: Guía De Arquitectura. Córdoba: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectura de Córdoba. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Vargas González, A. 2003. La Córdoba Cristiana: La Arquitectura Civil. In: J. Fernández (ed.) Guía Archaeológica De Córdoba, p. 225-227. Cordoba: Plurabelle.


10 metres10 metresSurvey Reference: DB113 Drawing No: 113.1Building Short Name: Casa del IndianoAddress: Plaza de Angel Torres, Córdoba, SpainScale: 1:200 Sheet Size: ISO A4

Ground Floor Plan

North Elevation

Door A Window A

First Floor Plan

Window B Window C



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1.1 Building Short Name Convento de Santa Clara

1.2 Variant Names Convent of Santa Clara

1.3 Address Calle Osio, Córdoba, Spain



Designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.)




surviving medieval walls to second storey

height, although the walls and floors have

suffered from considerable degradation.

Legibility is High (3) as its walls have no

coverings.

Accessibility is Low (1). the greater part of the

complex is unsafe to enter.





1.7 Primary building Technique 1200: Stone; very large; dressed; well squared;

regular coursing; thin mortar.

1400: Stone; very large; dressed; rectangular;

regular coursing; thin mortar.



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2.1 Reconquista period convent retaining the minaret of a Moorish period

mosque of earliest known date 10th century (Fuertes Romero et al. 2003:

150). It is currently a museum and tourist attraction.

2.2 The building is located on the corner of two narrow streets running north-

west to south east and north-east to south-west in the parish of Santa Maria

north-east of the Mezquita.

2.3 The main (north-west) entrance is via timber double leaf door directly from

the street to an entrance courtyard. The building has three storeys above

ground.


3.1 Foundations and walls are of Andalusían limestone with repairs in local clay

brickwork. Perimeter brickwork walls are not rendered but exposed.

3.2 The building is rectangular and consists of at least 2 separate phases in

addition to a Moorish period minaret. The lower body of the minaret of a

mosque survives that can be reasonably dated from the tenth to twelfth

centuries because of its slenderness and near-square plan (Barrucand &

Bednorz 1992: 153). Primary Building Technique is visible in the base of the

minaret up to a height of approximately 4.0 metres. Foundations and walls

the minaret are of Andalucían limestone 4.5 metres by 5.1 metres on plan.

Its staircase is arranged around a central square pier and forms part of the

walls of the courtyard apparent in the north-west and south-east arcades, with

a series of three openings, and a door access from the street. It is

characterized by lintel voussoirs on blind horseshoe arches comparable with

10th century arches at Madinat al-Zahra (Barrucand & Bednorz 1992: 61-6).

The only light to enter the staircase of the minaret is constituted by a narrow

open slits on two fronts. It is accessed from the south-east through a gate of

just 1m wide (Fuertes Romero et al. 2003: 150).

3.3 The eastern element bonds into and contains the minaret and is arranged

around a central courtyard with rounded arch galleries in clay brickwork.

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This eastern element has no contemporary windows but there is a horseshoe-

arched door in the south-eastern façade (infilled). The south-eastern and

north-eastern façades are of very large, rectangular, limestone in regular

coursing and thin mortar. This Primary Building Technique is very similar to

that of the Moorish period although it is clearly bonded into the face of the

minaret [Fig. 114i] and is therefore likely to date from the Reconquista

period.

3.4 The north-eastern façade is in large squared stones in stretcher and header

bond. This façade houses the main (north-east) entrance door. It has a

limestone surround with pilasters and ashlar stone segmented arch decorated

in heraldic motifs in a Plateresque style and Mannerist proportions

characteristic of the 16th century. The north-eastern façade itself, therefore,

appears to date from the Imperial period although the main body of the

eastern element is probably of the Reconquista period reusing architectural

features of the Moorish and early medieval periods.


4.1 Excavations in the interior have documented its division into three naves

stopped by rows of five columns including the remains of the mihrab and the

arched panels of qibla wall (Fuertes Romero et al. 2003: 150)



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Fig. 114c: North-east aspect from north.

Fig. 114e: North-east aspect

Fig. 114g: South-west aspect viewed

from the west

Fig. 114d: South-west aspect south-west

Fig. 114f: North-west aspect from north

Fig 114h: Minaret from the west



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Fig. 114i South-east aspect viewed from

the north



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Barrucand, M. & Bednorz, A. 1992: Moorish Architecture in Andalusia. Cologne: Benedikt Taschen Verlag. Fuertes Romero, R.-M., López Guerrero, R., Rodríguez Sánchez, M. & Valdivieso Ramos, A. 2003. La Qurtuba Islámica: Las Mezquitas. In: J. Fernández (ed.) Guía Archaeológica De Córdoba, p. 148-150. Córdoba: Plurabelle. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Ministerio de Cultura n.d.: Bien De Interés Cultural: La Base De Datos De Bienes Inmuebles. http://www.mcu.es/bienes/cargarFiltroBienesInmuebles.do?layout=bienesInmuebles&cache=init&language=es.






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1.1

Building Short Name

Convento de Santa Marta

1.2 Variant Names Convent of Santa Marta, Casa del Agua,

Houses of the Water

1.3 Address Calle Santa Marta- Calle de Conde Arenales,

Córdoba, Spain



Designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.).



Preservation has been graded as Medium (2)

as it has many surviving medieval walls to

second storey height.

Legibility has been graded as Low (1) as its

walls are largely rendered.

Accessibility has been graded as Low (1) as

the greater part of the complex is in use by the

convent’s order.

Stratigraphical Complexity has been graded as

Low (1) as first inspection indicated that the

structure’s phases spanned only the Imperial

period.

Archaeological Value has therefore been

graded as Low (1-2).

1.7 Primary Building Technique Stone; very large, dressed, rectangular, regular

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2.1 Reconquista period palatial residence of earliest known date early 15th

century (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 172). It is currently a convent.

2.2 The building is located on a plaza bearing its name in the parish of San

Andrés north-east of the Mezquita.

2.3 The main (north-west) entrance is via timber double leaf door directly from

the street to an entrance courtyard or patio.


3.1 Foundations and walls are of Andalusían limestone with repairs in local clay

brickwork. Perimeter walls are rendered but partially exposed.

3.2 The main entrance is in local clay brickwork with a stone lintel over leading

to an entrance courtyard through a Baroque loggia consisting of four arches


3.3 An early 16th-century portico shelters a doorway by Hernán Ruiz I in Gothic

and Renaissance styles.

3.4 The late 15th-16th century church has a single rectangular nave covered by

groined vaults and a main chapel in a star-shaped plan with Toledan

influence. Both high and low choirs have original Mudéjar coffered ceilings


3.5 The Primary Building Technique was very large, dressed, rectangular

limestonework in regular coursing in thick mortar visible in exposed areas of

the perimeter walls. The complex contains a small single-nave church with

late Gothic groined vaults and a portico in Isabeline style that date the church

to the late 15th- early 16th centuries. Two of the courtyards have galleries

with low pointed arches decorated in Mudéjar plastersque of the earlier 15th-

century. These courtyards are considerably larger than those of the 12th-

century Casa Andalusí [DB101] (exceeding 150 square metres) and are

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4.1 The Convent of Santa Marta, formerly a Mudéjar style palace known as the

Casa del Agua (The House of the Water), was built in 1462 and belongs to the

female branch of the order of San Jeronimo. The church is in the style of the

Christian Monarchs, and the main entrance was built by architect Hernán Ruiz

I in 1511. The church is rectangular with a single nave and cross vaulting in

the ceiling (Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.).

4.2 The convent of the Hieronymite Nuns occupies the former Mudéjar palace of

Doña María Carrillo, sister of the second Count of Cabra (1481-87), a building

that was known as Casas del Agua. In 1468, it was made over to the Convent

of Santa Marta, who formerly resided at the Corral de Cárdenas in Calle

Torrijos (Artencordoba n.d.). The building of the church began in 1479 under

the orders of Gonzalo Rodríguez, passing on to his son, Hernán Ruiz I, upon

his/her death in 1505 (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 172).



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Fig. 115b: Aerial view of the building structure in close-up.




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south.

Fig. 115e: East doorway viewed from

the south.


north

Fig. 115f: East doorway



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Artencordoba n.d.: Otros Monumentos. Vol. 2011 http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&prev=/search%3Fq%3DCorral%2Bde%2BC%25C3%25A1rdenas%2Bcordoba%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3DGmG%26rlz%3D1R1GGGL_en-GB___GB364%26prmd%3Divnsob&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&sl=es&u=http://www.artencordoba.com/OTROS-MONUMENTOS/Otros-Monumentos-Cordoba-Hospital-San-Sebastian.html&usg=ALkJrhivyBtzFRnNNLYbydn1rOcKp67MoQ. Accessed 6th June 2011, Cordoba. Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.: Córdoba: Oficinas De Información Turística. (ed. Ayuntamiento de Córdoba) Ayuntamiento de Córdoba, Córdoba. Daroca Bruño, F., Yllescas Ortiz, M. & De La Fuente Darder, F. (eds.) 2003: Córdoba: Guía De Arquitectura. Córdoba: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectura de Córdoba. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Ministerio de Cultura n.d.: Bien De Interés Cultural: La Base De Datos De Bienes Inmuebles. http://www.mcu.es/bienes/cargarFiltroBienesInmuebles.do?layout=bienesInmuebles&cache=init&language=es.

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1.1 Building Short Name Molino del Martos

1.2 Variant Names The Martyrs’ Mill

1.3 Address Ronda de los Martires, Córdoba, Spain


Easting -4.769°


Designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.).




medieval walls to roof height, although the

building has been subject to modern repair.


coverings.







1.7 Primary Building Technique Moorish: Stone; very large; dressed;


Reconquista: Stone; very large; dressed;




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2.1 Moorish period watermill of earliest proposed date 12th century. It is


2.2 The building is located on the river front in the parish of Santiago due east of

the Mezquita.

2.3 The east entrance (Door A) is via a timber double leaf door in a stonework

rounded archway. The west entrance (Door B) is via a double leaf timber

door with a stonework lintel doorway. The mill building has 1 storey above

ground plus a modern exhibition hall above it on the first floor.


3.1 Foundations and external walls are of Andalucían stonework construction.

3.2 The building is entered from the waterfront via the modern exhibition hall

and down a flight of limestone steps at the northern end of the building to the

Milling Hall or Stone room (Room A).

3.3 The Primary Building Technique employed was very large, dressed, well

squared stonework construction in regular courses with thick mortar. The

Primary Building Technique is in limestone, and is the recurrent technical

grammar of the Moorish period civil and industrial buildings. It is visible in

the base of the foundations and walls [Fig.117e]. The earliest elements are

visible in the foundations of the building and the external walls up to

approximately 1 metre, where there is a horizontal break line. There is a

rounded arch doorway (Door D), truncated by a later wall and doorway,

infilled with large stonework blocks, which characteristically dates from the

Moorish period [Drawing 117.1].

3.4 The walls of Room A are of Andalucían limestone construction up to a

height of 1.62m. A barrel roof of local brickwork construction sits on the

walls and rises to an apex of 4.55m. The barrel roof is of a size and form

developed in the Renaissance period in Europe and is likely to date from the

15th or 16th century. The floors are also of limestone and are partly covered

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the setting of an earlier, possibly Reconquista period wheel. Along the west

wall there are a series of brickwork settings for 8 grindstones now lost.

3.5 There are further rooms to the south of Room A of a similar construction.

Rooms B and D hold limestone settings for grindstones.


4.1 This mill dates from the 12th century when it formed part of a dam. In 1237

King Alfonso X granted it to the Order of the Knights of Calatrava, in whose

hands it remained until the 19th century. Around 1550, the old mill building

was replaced with a building that could accommodate a larger number of

millstones and a sluice gate. It contained three fuller's mills, a grinding

chamber and a jetty. It was the main grinding mill for cereals in the city.

Nowadays, it houses the River Information Centre (Ayuntamiento de Córdoba

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north.

Fig. 117e: East entrance door with

Door C (right) and infilled Door D

(left)


south.

Fig. 117f: East aspect



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Fig. 117g: Room A Looking South Fig. 117h: Room A Looking North

Fig. 117i: Door C from the North Fig. 117j: Room B Looking West

Fig. 117k: Room C Looking East Fig. 117l: Room D Looking North



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7.0 Bibliography

Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.: Córdoba: Oficinas De Información Turística. (ed. Ayuntamiento de Córdoba) Ayuntamiento de Córdoba, Córdoba. Daroca Bruño, F., Yllescas Ortiz, M. & De La Fuente Darder, F. (eds.) 2003: Córdoba: Guía De Arquitectura. Córdoba: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectura de Córdoba. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Ministerio de Cultura n.d.: Bien De Interés Cultural: La Base De Datos De Bienes Inmuebles. http://www.mcu.es/bienes/cargarFiltroBienesInmuebles.do?layout=bienesInmuebles&cache=init&language=es.




10 metres10 metresSurvey Reference: DB117 Drawing No:117.1Building Short Name: Molino del Martos Address: Ronda de los Martires, Córdoba, SpainScale: 1:200 Sheet Size: ISO A4

Ground Floor Plan

Door A

Door B

Door CRoom A

Room B

Room CRoom D

River Wall

Wheel

Grinding Stones

Gate Post

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1.1

Building Short Name

Torre de la Malmuerta

1.2

Variant Names

The Tower of She Who Died Badly

1.3

Address

Avenida de las Ollerías,

Córdoba, Spain

1.4


Northing 37.891°Easting -4.777°

1.5


Designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.).





it has been subject to some modern

reconstruction.


coverings. the structure is publically accessible

Accessibility is High (3). the structure is


Stratigraphical Complexity is Low (1).


1.7 Primary Building Technique Stone; very large; dressed; rectangular; regular

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2.1 Imperial period bastion to the city walls on the site of Moorish period wall

foundations of an earliest proposed date 12th century (Daroca Bruño et al.

2003: 189). It is currently a monumental ruin and tourist attraction.

2.2 The building is located on a plaza next to a major thoroughfare in the parish

of Santa Marina north-east of the Mezquita and would have formed part of

the northern wall of the Axerquía.

2.3 The sole (east) entrance is via a timber single leaf door directly on the First

Floor at the top of a flight of stone steps. The building has two storeys above

ground plus a roof area.



External walls are visible to roof height and are not rendered.

3.2 The structure comprises an octagonal tower to the north to a height of

21.10m joined to a section of the city wall running 13.66m north to south to a

height of 11.46m. There is an archway through the wall to a height of 7.70m.

This opening is headed by a rounded arch in stonework. There are mountings

for a gate (absent) on either side of the inside of this archway.

3.3 The building is entered from the via a single leaf timber front door on the

First Floor level at the top of a stone staircase. The doorway is headed with a

rounded stonework arch.

3.4 The foundations have been subject to continuous repair but may date from

the Moorish period. The stonework walls appear to be consistent with 15th

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4.1 Near the Plaza de Colón, the tower called la Malmuerta (literally 'she who has

died badly') is wrapped in myth and legend. According to popular tales, the

tower was so named after the death of a noble Córdoban lady at the hands of

her deranged, jealous husband (Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.).

4.2 This tower was built in the 15th century on top of a previous Islamic building.

It is joined to the city walls by a rounded arch, under which there is an

inscription giving details of its construction. On the inside, various staircases

lead to the walkway and, above that, to the only room in the building, which

has a vaulted ceiling and window slits to let the air in (Ayuntamiento de

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the south.

Fig. 118e: South aspect viewed from

the south-west


south-east




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Drawing Nos. 118.1, 118.2

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Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.: Córdoba: Oficinas De Información Turística. (ed. Ayuntamiento de Córdoba) Ayuntamiento de Córdoba, Córdoba. Daroca Bruño, F., Yllescas Ortiz, M. & De La Fuente Darder, F. (eds.) 2003: Córdoba: Guía De Arquitectura. Córdoba: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectura de Córdoba. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Ministerio de Cultura n.d.: Bien De Interés Cultural: La Base De Datos De Bienes Inmuebles. http://www.mcu.es/bienes/cargarFiltroBienesInmuebles.do?layout=bienesInmuebles&cache=init&language=es.




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Ground Floor Plan

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1.1 Building Short Name Casa Santiago

1.2 Variant Names Casa de los Caballeros de Santiago

Encomienda de los Caballeros de Santiago

House of the Knights of St. James

1.3 Address Calle Agustín Moreno, Córdoba, Spain



designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.).




surviving medieval walls, although the

building has been subject to modern repair and

addition.

Legibility is Low (1). The walls of the

building have been rendered.

Accessibility is Low (2). Large parts of the

building are obscured by modern usage.



phases spanned at least 2 periods –



1.7 Primary Building Technique 1400AD: Fired brick; large; hand-moulded;


1600AD: Fired brick; large; hand-moulded;

rectangular; regular coursing; thin mortar.



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2.1 Reconquista period domestic dwelling of earliest known date late 13th

century with additions in later centuries built on the foundations of a Moorish

period house (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 158). It is currently a private school.

2.2 The building is located on a plaza, the Plaza de los Condes de Valdegranas,

on a main thoroughfare in the parish of Santiago north-east of the Mezquita.

2.3 The (north) entrances (Doors A&B) are via two stonework portals from the

plaza.


3.1 Walls are of clay brickwork. Walls are mainly rendered but some columns

are exposed. This Primary Building Technique is visible in the arcading of

the Courtyard B.

3.2 The north entrances (Doors A&B) have brickwork surrounds with pilasters

and ashlar stone segmented arches decorated in heraldic motifs in a

Plateresque style characteristic of the 16th century. They both carry heraldic

motifs/ coats of arms of the Valdegranas family, who occupied the house

during the Imperial period. The north-western façade itself, therefore,

appears to date from the Imperial period.

3.3 Two courtyards are partially preserved, west (Courtyard A) and east

(Courtyard B) with a former Chapter House between. Courtyard B has

arcading with one round arch very stilted in the centre and two lobed or

foiled arches either side in a Reconquista period Mudéjar style. The chapter

house has a round arch entrance with the coat of arms of the Order of the

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4.1 In 1254, Alfonso X the Wise awarded a number of small farms to the

Knights of Santiago and an accommodation block next to a mosque, now the

Church of Santiago. In 1260 the Order of Santiago transformed the mosque

into a Christian church of Gothic-Mudéjar. In 1360, the Knights of the Order

of Santiago began to rebuild the complex in Mudéjar style. It is not known

when it passed into civilian hands but it became owned by the Counts of

Valdelagrana. In 1960 it became a school, after the great work of restoration

of Don Victor Escribano Ucelay (Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Histórico

n.d.).



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Fig. 119d: Courtyard.



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Drawing No. 119.1

1 Page A4 Size



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Daroca Bruño, F., Yllescas Ortiz, M. & De La Fuente Darder, F. (eds.) 2003: Córdoba: Guía De Arquitectura. Córdoba: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectura de Córdoba. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Histórico n.d.: Base Del Datos Del Patrimonio Inmueble De Andalucia. http://www.iaph.es/patrimonio-inmueble-andalucia/resumen.do?id=i927&ids=140210008 Ministerio de Cultura n.d.: Bien De Interés Cultural: La Base De Datos De Bienes Inmuebles. http://www.mcu.es/bienes/cargarFiltroBienesInmuebles.do?layout=bienesInmuebles&cache=init&language=es.


http://www.iaph.es/patrimonio-inmueble-andalucia/resumen.do?id=i927&ids=140210008

http://www.iaph.es/patrimonio-inmueble-andalucia/resumen.do?id=i927&ids=140210008



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Ground Floor Plan

CourtyardA Courtyard

B

ChapterHouse

Door A Door B



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1.1 Building Short Name Alminar de San Juan

1.2 Variant Names Minaret of San Juan.

1.3 Address Plaza de San Juan,

Córdoba, Spain


Easting -4.781°


Designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.).




medieval walls to second storey height,

although the building has been subject to

modern repair.


coverings.







1.7 Primary Building Technique Stone; very large; ashlar; well squared;

regular; thin mortar.



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2.1 Caliphal period minaret to a now absent mosque of earliest proposed date

10th century (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 129; Fuertes Romero et al. 2003:

149). It is currently a church tower.

2.2 The building is located on a plaza in the parish of San Juan north-west of the

Mezquita.

2.3 The sole (south-east) entrance is via a timber single leaf door directly from

the street. The building has two storeys above ground.


3.1 The Primary Building Technique is visible in the base of the walls up to a

height of approximately 3 metres where there is a horizontal line of

discontinuity. Above this line very large, dressed, well squared sandstone

stonework in regular course with thin mortar is employed possible imported

from Cadiz or Murcia. Foundations and lower external walls are of

Andalucían limestone ashlar construction in a stretcher and header bond.

External walls are visible to roof height and not rendered.

3.2 The base of the tower (3.41 by 3.67 metres) has ashlar repairs to a height of

2.82m on the South-East elevation likely to date to the Reconquista period.

3.3 The Second Floor level has twin blind horseshoe arches separated by a

marble column on each elevation. These are probably blocked windows

(Collins 1998: 122) in a style characteristic of the Caliphal period. Above

these are the remains of a frieze of opaque horseshoe arches with marble

shafts in a Visigothic style (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 129).

3.4 The roof is of modern construction.

3.5 The sole (south-east) entrance is via a timber single leaf door directly from

the street (Door A). Door A leads to a stonework winding staircase around a

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4.1 This minaret has survived practically intact since the 10th century and is an

example of Caliphate architecture (Fuertes Romero et al. 2003: 149). With its

connected Mosque it was turned over to the Order of San Juan de los

Caballeros by Fernando III after 1236 and then demolished. The church of San

Juan has been built in its place (Fuertes Romero et al. 2003: 149). It is a

square tower built of solid limestone ashlar blocks, but its decorative features

include the twin horseshoe arches and marble columns (Daroca Bruño et al.

2003: 129). The church was the centre of the parish of San Juan de los

Caballeros until the 18th century. The tower is owned now, along with the

church, by the religious order Esclavas de Jesús (Ayuntamiento de Córdoba

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Fig. 120c: North-east aspect

Fig. 120e: North aspect

Fig. 120d: North-east aspect

Fig. 120f: North aspect



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Drawing No. 120.1

1 Page A4 Size



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Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.: Córdoba: Oficinas De Información Turística, (ed. Ayuntamiento de Córdoba) Ayuntamiento de Córdoba, Córdoba. Collins, R. 1998: Spain: An Oxford Archaeological Guide. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Daroca Bruño, F., Yllescas Ortiz, M. & De La Fuente Darder, F. (eds.) 2003: Córdoba: Guía De Arquitectura. Córdoba: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectura de Córdoba. Fuertes Romero, R.-M., López Guerrero, R., Rodríguez Sánchez, M. & Valdivieso Ramos, A. 2003. "La Qurtuba Islámica: Las Mezquitas", in J. Fernández (ed.) Guía Archaeológica De Córdoba, pp. 148-150. Córdoba: Plurabelle. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Ministerio de Cultura n.d.: Bien De Interés Cultural: La Base De Datos De Bienes Inmuebles, http://www.mcu.es/bienes/cargarFiltroBienesInmuebles.do?layout=bienesInmuebles&cache=init&language=es.




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1.1

Building Short Name

Casa de las Bulas

1.2

Variant Names

The House of the Bulls

The Bullfighting Museum

Las Armentas

1.3

Address

Plaza de Maimónides, Córdoba, Spain

1.4



1.5


Designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.).



Preservation is Medium (2) many Imperial

period elements have survived.

Legibility is Low (1) as the walls are mostly

plastered and rendered.

Accessibility is Medium (2) as parts of the

building are obscured by restoration works.


inspection indicated that the building spanned



1.7 Primary Building Technique Stone; very large, ashlar, rectangular; regular

coursing, thin mortar.



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2.1 Reconquista period house of earliest known date 16th century. It is currently a

Bullfighting Museum under reconstruction and closed to the public.

2.2 The building is located on a plaza in the parish of Santa Maria north-west of

the Mezquita.

2.3 The main (south-west) entrance is via timber double leaf door through an

arched vestibule. The building has two storeys above ground plus roof space.



approximately 8m.

3.2 The main (south-west) entrance (Door A) is via timber double leaf door

through an arched vestibule to a rectangular Courtyard A. The main entrance

doorway has a limestone surround and is headed by a segmented arch in 16th-

century Mannerist proportions. Above the doorway is a First Floor balconied

window with a modern stonework surround.

3.3 The south-eastern façade has a reused or imitation Visigothic style column

set in its wall return. A staircase rises at the north-east side of the vestibule to

First Floor level. Courtyard A and the stairwell have sculpted Mudéjar

columns imitating Visigothic styles headed by rounded brick arches

decorated in geometric Mudéjar plasterwork. These are likely to date from

the earlier Imperial period.

3.4 The eastern wing of the building is arranged around a further Courtyard B

with sculpted Mudéjar columns imitating Visigothic styles headed by

rounded brick arches decorated in geometric Mudéjar plasterwork.



4.1 The house of the Bulls , also called Las Armentas , is a house located in the

Plaza de Maimonides , which was built in the 16th century (Romeo & Gómez

2005).

http://wikanda.cordobapedia.es/wiki/Plaza_de_Maim%C3%B3nides

http://wikanda.cordobapedia.es/wiki/Siglo_XVI



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Fig. 121e: South-west aspect

Fig. 121g: Western wall stonework

Fig. 121d: South-east aspect

Fig. 121f: South-east aspect – Entrance



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Drawing No. 121.1

1 Page A4 Size



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Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Ministerio de Cultura n.d.: Bien De Interés Cultural: La Base De Datos De Bienes Inmuebles, http://www.mcu.es/bienes/cargarFiltroBienesInmuebles.do?layout=bienesInmuebles&cache=init&language=es. Romeo, A. & Gómez, S. 2005: Cordobapedia, (eds. A. Romeo & S. Gómez) http://wikanda.cordobapedia.es/, Cordoba.





10 metres (approx.)Survey Reference: DB121 Drawing No:121.1Building Short Name: Casa del IndianoAddress: Plaza de Angel Torres, Córdoba, SpainScale: 1:200 Sheet Size: ISO A4

Ground Floor Plan

Courtyard

Courtyard

Door A



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1.1

Building Short Name

Hospital de la Caridad

1.2

Variant Names

Old Charity Hospital,

Julio Romero de Torres Museum

1.3

Address

Plaza del Potro, Córdoba, Spain

1.4



1.5

Statutory and non-statutory

designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.).



Preservation is Low (1) as it was substantially

remodelled in the Modern period.


partially rendered and plastered.

Accessibility is High (3) as it is publically

accessible.

Stratigraphical Complexity is Medium (1) as

initial inspection indicated that it spanned only

the Imperial period.


1.7 Primary Building Technique Stone; very large; rectangular; ashlar; regular

courses; thin mortar.



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2.1 Imperial period residential courtyard house or hospital of earliest proposed

date 15th century (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 151). It is currently a museum

and tourist attraction.

2.2 The building is located on a plaza in the parish of San Nicolas in the Potro

area of the city east of the Mezquita.


street to an entrance vestibule. The building has three storeys above ground

plus roof space.


3.1 Foundations and external walls are of Andalucían limestone ashlar

construction.


west elevation. The doorway is headed by an alfiz with an elliptic arch of

Renaissance date characteristic of the Imperial period but with a modern

period inscription.

3.3 The first floor of the west elevation the entrance doorway is pierced by two

windows. One is bordered by 16th-century Mannerist pilasters and decorated

with geometric motifs.

3.4 The second floor of the west elevation is pierced by a row of five alfiz

windows with very low basket arches and fluted pilasters characteristic of the

Imperial period.

3.5 The northern section of the west elevation is pierced by two rounded arches,

which lead into an open vestibule or portal. From the portal are an entrance

door and two blind rounded arches in the façade. These Mudéjar features sit

on reused or imitation Visigothic columns may have formed an earlier

entrance to a 15th-century phase of building.

3.6 The entrance doorway leads to a vestibule with a gridded timber ceiling

characteristic of the early Imperial period. Through the vestibule are late

Mudéjar buildings arranged around a central courtyard.



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3.7 Roofs are of modern timber framed construction with ceramic roof tiles


4.1 The buildings first belonged to the Old Charity Hospital, an institution

sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs in the late 15th century and ruled by the

Third Order of San Francisco (Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.). When the

Hospital was built in 1493, the square lost half of its area and passed from its

original square proportions to the current rectangular one. Surviving from the

old Hospital are the chapel, the staircase, the patio and the portal that gave

way to the church (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 151).



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Fig. 122c: West aspect

Fig. 122e: Courtyard looking north-

east

Fig. 122g: Courtyard looking south

Fig. 122d: West aspect from the south.

Fig. 122f: Courtyard looking north

Fig. 122h: Main Entrance



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Gallery Reception Room

Staircase Vestibule



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Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.: Córdoba: Oficinas De Información Turística, (ed. Ayuntamiento de Córdoba) Ayuntamiento de Córdoba, Córdoba. Daroca Bruño, F., Yllescas Ortiz, M. & De La Fuente Darder, F. (eds.) 2003: Córdoba: Guía De Arquitectura. Córdoba: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectura de Córdoba. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Ministerio de Cultura n.d.: Bien De Interés Cultural: La Base De Datos De Bienes Inmuebles, http://www.mcu.es/bienes/cargarFiltroBienesInmuebles.do?layout=bienesInmuebles&cache=init&language=es.






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1.1

Building Short Name

Palacio de los Páez de Castillejo

1.2

Variant Names

Palace of the Family Páez de Castillejo,

The Archaeological Museum

1.3

Address

Plaza de Jerónimo Páez, Córdoba, Spain

1.4



1.5


Designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.).



Preservation is Medium (2) as many medieval

walls survive.

Legibility is Low (1) as the walls are rendered

and plastered.

Accessibility is Medium (2) as the building is

publically open but is too large to fully survey

within the resources of this thesis.



on.ly the Imperial period.


1.7 Primary Building Technique Stone, very large, rectangular, ashlar, regular




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2.1 Imperial period residential courtyard palace on the site of an earlier 14th

century house (Carpio Dueñas 2003: 239). It is currently a museum and

tourist attraction.

2.2 The building is located on its own wide plaza in the Medina area of the city

in the parish of Santa Maria north-east of the Mezquita.

2.3 The main (south-west) entrance is via a timber double leaf door directly from

the street to an entrance vestibule. The building has two storeys above

ground plus roof space.


3.1 Foundations and external walls are of Andalucían limestone ashlar

construction. External walls are visible to roof height.

3.2 East external walls are not rendered.


south-west elevation. The doorway is framed by limestone carved pilasters

topped with pediments and a tympanum with heraldic designs characteristic

of the Imperial period. The doorway opens to a vestibule which leads on to a

courtyard area.

3.4 At the southern corner of the south-west elevation, a corner window has been

inserted with similar heraldic designs. This suggests that the stonework of the

elevation is of an earlier date.

3.5 The Courtyard is surrounded by elliptic arches of brickwork above carved

marble columns with floral shaped capitals all characteristic of the Imperial

period.

3.6 A gallery off the courtyard contains the exposed remains of a roman period

theatre.

3.7 A large staircase leads off the Courtyard to the upper floor, which has been

dated to the late 15th century (Carpio Dueñas 2003: 240).





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4.1 The courtyard plan of the house originates from the 14th century but was

reformed in the early 16th century. The arch that connects the principal patio

to Sala 6 is an example (Carpio Dueñas 2003: 239). The first major

renovation of the building occurred in 1498 with the construction of the

monumental staircase, covered by a wooden cupola unique in the city of

Cordoba. But the most important works were carried out since 1538 under

the supervision of Hernán Ruiz II, which would make the house the first

Renaissance palace in the city (Carpio Dueñas 2003: 240). They included the

façade and doorway influenced by Roman triumphal arches (Daroca Bruño et

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Fig. 123c: South-west aspect viewed

from the south.

Fig. 123e: Main courtyard looking

north.

Fig. 123d: Front (south-west) entrance

door

Fig. 123f: Main courtyard looking

south.



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Carpio Dueñas, J. B. 2003. "El Museo Arqueologico Y El Palacio De Los Paez De Castillejo", in J. Fernández (ed.) Guía Archaeológica De Córdoba, pp. 239-241. Córdoba: Plurabelle. Daroca Bruño, F., Yllescas Ortiz, M. & De La Fuente Darder, F. (eds.) 2003: Córdoba: Guía De Arquitectura. Córdoba: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectura de Córdoba. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Ministerio de Cultura n.d.: Bien De Interés Cultural: La Base De Datos De Bienes Inmuebles, http://www.mcu.es/bienes/cargarFiltroBienesInmuebles.do?layout=bienesInmuebles&cache=init&language=es.






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1.1

Building Short Name

Palacio de Viana

1.2

Variant Names

Palace of the Viana Family

1.3

Address

Plaza de Don Gome, Córdoba, Spain

1.4



1.5


Designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.).



Preservation is Medium (2) as many medieval

walls have survived.

Legibility is Low (1) as the walls are mostly

rendered and plastered.

Accessibility is Low (1) as the complex is too

large to be fully surveyed within the resources

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2.1 Imperial period courtyard palace retaining elements of a 14th-century house

with additions in the 16th century. It is currently a museum and art gallery.

2.2 The building is located on an open plaza in the parish of Santa Marina north-

east of the Mezquita.

2.3 The main (west) entrance is via timber double leaf door from the plaza. The

building has 2 storeys above ground plus roof space.


3.1 Foundations and walls of the West Elevation are of Andalusían limestone

construction. Walls are mostly rendered in sand and cement and painted.

3.2 The main (west) entrance is via timber double leaf door framed by Herrerian

limestone pilasters and a broken pediment with heraldic motifs characteristic

of the Imperial period. Above the doorway, on the First Floor, are a

balconied doorway with a segmented arch and a further broken pediment

also with heraldic motifs. The balcony is framed with Neo-Classical statues.

3.3 The West Elevation has 2 further balconied doorways on the First floor and

the South Elevation has another.

3.4 The South Elevation is pierced by a double gateway large enough for

carriages to pass through into a courtyard.

3.5 The main entrance opens on to a large Courtyard surrounded by brickwork

arches on stone columns characteristic of the Imperial period. Doorways in

each corner of the Courtyard lead to further courtyards, chambers and

galleries in 16th century Baroque architectural styles.



4.1 The building dates from the 14th century. Its facade was built by Juan de

Ochoa, a 16th century Renaissance mannerist; it has had numerous

restorations and additions during the 16th century (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003:

185). There have been archaeological finds suggesting that the building was

built on remains of Roman date (Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.).



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Survey & Archive Reference: Survey Recorder: D. A. Lenton DB125 Date of Survey: 28-Oct-10


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Fig. 125c: North-west aspect

Fig. 125e: Courtyard

Fig. 125f: Courtyard

Fig. 125d: North-west aspect

Fig. 125g: Courtyard



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Fig. 125j: Room Fig. 125k: Room



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1.1

Building Short Name

Iglesia de la Magdalena

1.2

Variant Names

Church of the Magdalena

1.3

Address

Plaza de La Magdalena, Córdoba, Spain

1.4



1.5


Designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.)



Preservation is High (3). The medieval

structure is intact up to roof level but has been

subject to later repairs and additions.

Legibility is Medium (2). External façades are

unrendered but internal façades are obscured

by modern features.

Accessibility is Low (1). Accessibility is

limited by its modern functions.

Stratigraphical Complexity is Medium (2) as it

spanned 2 periods – Reconquista and Imperial.


1.7 Primary Building Technique Stone; large; dressed; rectangular; regular

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2.1 Reconquista period church of earliest known date late 13th century with

additions in the 15th, 16th and 19th centuries. It is currently an exhibition

centre.

2.2 The building is located on its own plaza in the parish of Magdalena north-


2.3 The main (west) entrance is via timber double leaf door (Door A) through an

arched vestibule.



approximately 16m above the rectangular 13th-century nave (Daroca Bruño et

al. 2003: 160). The nave has one aisle on either side to the north and south.

There is a single two-storey semi-octagonal apse at the east end with

supporting piers but no buttresses [Fig. 126d]. The apse has two elongated

round-arch windows and the whole structure is characteristic of 13th-14th-

century Castilian churches during the Gothic to Mudéjar transition (Iglesias

Costa 1989: 28; 166; 250).

3.2 The main (west) entrance is a double leaf timber door leading to the nave.

The doorway has a high-pointed limestone arch with archivolts decorated

with diamond point patterns and a frieze of faunal and floral motifs on

limestone pilaster capitals [Fig. 126f]. The tightly undercut and decorated

archivolts and the elaborate rose window at second storey height are

characteristic of High Gothic tool carving of the 13th century (Geddes 2001:

168).

3.3 The northern doorway has a similar High Gothic pointed arch above with

overhanging eaves. Its tightly undercut archivolts are decorated with

medallions and an angel. The southern doorway has a Mudéjar style ogee

arch and dog’s tooth mouldings surrounded by a diamond point alfiz [Fig.

126g]. This style of alfiz built upon designs of the Moorish period but

developed as a Mudéjar characteristic of the early 14th century (Cabañero

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3.4 The polygonal upper section of the limestone Tower is characteristic of the

18th-century Spanish Baroque period.


3.6 The church has be repaired and rebuilt many times and the relative

stratigraphy is highly complicated. The stones of the apse are the largest

stones of the medieval features and the most finely dressed. They correspond

with the stones of the western façade that scale to roof height and encompass

the 13th-century rose window. The apse and the nave abut each other [Fig.

126h] suggesting that one was built before the other. It is possible that the

nave was built atop an earlier structure and the apse added on later. However,

it seems more likely the apse, with its round-arched Romanesque windows,

was built first and the church therefore consecrated for immediate use as part

of the programme of “Iglesias Fernandinas” in the mid 13th century. There is

no clear evidence to suggest that the nave, aisles, and doorways were built in

anymore than one phase around the turn of the 14th century although the

remains of an earlier mosque may well have been used as building materials.


4.1 The Church of la Magdalena was one of the first churches to be built in the

city and a model for subsequent parish churches in Cordoba. Its style is a

mixture of Romanesque, Gothic and Mudéjar (Ayuntamiento de Córdoba

n.d.). The main entrance is at the west end of the church and is decorated

with a frieze of floral and faunal motifs. It is the oldest doorway of all the

churches of Córdoba dating to around 1300. The southern doorway has a

Mudéjar style ogee arch and dog’s tooth mouldings surrounded by a diamond

point alfiz of the early 14th century. The 18th century tower is made up of

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the west.


Fig. 126f: West aspect viewed from the

north.


south

Fig. 126g: South aspect viewed from

the west.



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Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.: Córdoba: Oficinas De Información Turística, (ed. Ayuntamiento de Córdoba) Ayuntamiento de Córdoba, Córdoba. Cabañero Subiza, B. 1998: La Alijafería. Zaragoza: Cortes de Aragón. Daroca Bruño, F., Yllescas Ortiz, M. & De La Fuente Darder, F. (eds.) 2003: Córdoba: Guía De Arquitectura. Córdoba: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectura de Córdoba. Geddes, J. 2001. "Iron", in J. Blair & N. Ramsey (eds.): English Medieval Industries : Craftsmen, Techniques, Products, pp. 167-188. London: Hambledon and London. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Iglesias Costa, M. 1989: Arquitectura Sacra: Desde El Period Gótico (Siglo Xiii) Hasta La Actualidad. Zaragoza: Gobierno de Aragon. Ministerio de Cultura n.d.: Bien De Interés Cultural: La Base De Datos De Bienes Inmuebles, http://www.mcu.es/bienes/cargarFiltroBienesInmuebles.do?layout=bienesInmuebles&cache=init&language=es.






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1.1 Building Short Name Iglesia de San Nicolás

1.2 Variant Names Iglesia de San Nicolás de la Villa

Church of St. Nicholas in the Town

1.3 Address Plaza de San Nicolas, Córdoba, Spain



Designations








Preservation is Medium (2) Many surviving

medieval walls to second storey height, building

has been subject to Imperial period remodelling.

Legibility is Low (1) Greater part of its wall

surface is rendered and obscured.

Accessibility is Low (1) Parts of the upper

storeys of building unattainable for detailed

survey. Modern structures conceal earlier.

Stratigraphical Complexity is High (3) Phases

spanned three periods – Moorish, Reconquista

and Imperial.


1.7 Primary Building Technique 1200AD: Stone; very large; ashlar; well squared;




mortar.

1600AD: Stone; very large; ashlar; well squared;




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2.1 Reconquista period church of earliest known date 12th century (Fuertes

Romero et al. 2003: 149-150) with additions in the 14th, 15th, 16th and 19th

centuries (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 212). It is currently a catholic church.

2.2 The building is located on its own plaza in the parish of San Nicolas de la

Villa due north of the Mezquita.

2.3 The main (south-west) entrance is via timber double leaf door (Door A)

through an arched vestibule.



approximately 19m above a 13th or 14th century nave (Daroca Bruño et al.

2003: 212). Walls are mostly rendered but some areas have exposed

stonework. The nave has one aisle on either side to the north and south

constructed on high pointed arches that date to the late 13th or early 14th

century. The main medieval west entrance no longer survives. It has been

replaced with an Imperial period bay. However, there is an elaborate rose

window above it at second storey height that is indicative of a 13th-century

Gothic style.

3.2 There is an entrance Vestibule (Room A) with round arches on stone

columns leading to the main entrance (Door A). The Vestibule is a later,

abutment to the main central building. Door A is a double leaf timber door

leading to the nave. The doorway has a rounded limestone arch.

3.3 The nave is lined by stonework arcading to second storey height in an early

Gothic style with high pointed arches on heavy columns with single fluted

piers. The medieval apse has been removed. There is no clear evidence to

suggest that the nave and aisles were built in anymore than one phase around

the end of the 13th century.

3.4 The Chapels to the north of the nave and the rooms to the south are later

additions that abut the medieval Nave. The Bay to the western wall of the

nave is a later abutment and possibly conceals a 13th or 14th century entrance



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door. This Bay is likely to be a 15th century addition, which may indicate that

Door A was inserted in the 15th century to provide the new main entrance.

3.5 The polygonal limestone Tower stands on the rectangular limestone base of a

former minaret (5.70 by 5.10 metres) from an earlier mosque (now lost). The

base dates from the Moorish period, whereas the Tower is in 15th century

Gothic-Mudejar style. The Belfry is in a Herreian design of the later 16th

century.

3.6 The northern end portal is built in Mannerist proportions with fluted columns

and Christian iconography. It is likely to date from the 16th century.



4.1 This parish church was started in the 13th century by order of Ferdinand III

and was called “de la Villa” (of the town) to distinguish it from another with

the same name located in the outskirts (Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.). It

has a polygonal tower accredited to Bishop Iñigo Manrique dated to 1496

built on top of a former minaret. The north entrance was built in 1555 by

Hernán Ruiz II (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 212). On the inside, there is a 16th

century Baptismal Chapel and the main altarpiece in Baroque style

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North at top (Google Inc. n.d.; Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 212)





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the north-west.


south-east


north.

Fig. 127f: South aspect viewed from

the south-east



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Fig. 127g: Vestibule from the south-west Fig. 127h: South aspect

Fig. 127i: Vestibule from the south Fig. 127j: Door A from the south

Fig. 127k: Door B from the north



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Drawing No. 127.1

1 Page A4 Size



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Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.: Córdoba: Oficinas De Información Turística, (ed. Ayuntamiento de Córdoba) Ayuntamiento de Córdoba, Córdoba. Consorcio de Turismo 2010: Iglesia De San Nicolás De La Villa http://english.turismodecordoba.org/index2.cfm?codigo=0653 Córdoba. Daroca Bruño, F., Yllescas Ortiz, M. & De La Fuente Darder, F. (eds.) 2003: Córdoba: Guía De Arquitectura. Córdoba: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectura de Córdoba. Fuertes Romero, R.-M., López Guerrero, R., Rodríguez Sánchez, M. & Valdivieso Ramos, A. 2003. "La Qurtuba Islámica: Las Mezquitas", in J. Fernández (ed.) Guía Archaeológica De Córdoba, pp. 148-150. Córdoba: Plurabelle. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Ministerio de Cultura n.d.: Bien De Interés Cultural: La Base De Datos De Bienes Inmuebles, http://www.mcu.es/bienes/cargarFiltroBienesInmuebles.do?layout=bienesInmuebles&cache=init&language=es.

http://english.turismodecordoba.org/index2.cfm?codigo=0653




10 metres (Approx.)Survey Reference: DB127 Drawing No: 127.1Building Short Name: Iglesia de San NicolasAddress: Plaza de San Nicholas, Córdoba, SpainScale: NTS Sheet Size: ISO A4

Door A

Portico

Nave

Chapel

Chapel

Minaret

Bay

PortalDoor B



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1.1 Building Short Name Iglesia de San Lorenzo

1.2 Variant Names Iglesia de San Lorenzo Mártir

Church of St. Lawrence the Martyr

1.3 Address Plaza de San Lorenzo, Córdoba, Spain



Designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.).



Preservation is High (3). Many surviving

medieval walls to second storey height,

although building subject to modern repair.

Legibility is High (3). Walls have no

coverings.

Accessibility is Medium (2). Some parts of the

upper storeys of the building are unattainable

for detailed survey.

Stratigraphical Complexity is High (3).

Phases spanned 3 periods- Moorish,



1.7 Primary Building Technique 1200AD: Stone; very large; ashlar; well

squared; regular; thin mortar.


dressed; rectangular; regular courses; thick

mortar.

1600AD: Stone; very large; ashlar; regular

courses; thick mortar.



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2.1 Reconquista period church incorporating the minaret of a mosque of earliest

known date 10th century with additions in the later Reconquista and Imperial

periods (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 179; Fuertes Romero et al. 2003: 150). It

is currently a catholic church.

2.2 The building is located on its own plaza in the parish of San Lorenzo north-


2.3 The main (south-west) entrance is via timber double leaf door (Door A)

through an arched portico.



14.18m above the 13th century nave. Walls are not rendered and stonework is

exposed and visible. The nave has one aisle on either side to the north-west

and south-east. There is a single two-storey semi-octagonal apse at the north-

east end with supporting piers but no buttresses [Fig. 126d]. The apse has

two elongated pointed-arch windows and the whole structure is characteristic

of 13th-14th-century Castilian churches during the Gothic to Mudéjar

transition (Iglesias Costa 1989: 28; 166; 250). The stonework of the apse has

the largest and most finely dressed blocks of the external walls [Fig. 128l].

3.2 There is an entrance Portico to the south-west with low pointed arches

leading to the main entrance (Door A). The Portico is a later, abutment to the

main central building and reuses two Roman or Visigothic period marble

columns. This would date the Portico later than the south-west end of the

Nave. The main west entrance (Door A) is a double leaf timber door leading

to the nave. The doorway has a low pointed limestone arch with archivolts

decorated and diamond point chevrons and a frieze of faunal and floral

motifs on limestone pilaster capitals [Fig. 128j]. The tightly undercut and

decorated archivolts and the elaborate rose window above it at second storey

height are characteristic of High Gothic tool carving of the 13th century

(Geddes 2001: 168) but the low pointed arches are a Mudéjar style and

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3.3 The Chapels to the north and south of the nave are later additions. The

northern Chapel walls stand to a height of 7.00 metres and the southern

Chapel walls stand to a height of 6.31 metres. The low pointed arches above

the doors suggest 14th or 15th-century construction dates. The Chapels’ walls

are of Andalusían limestone. The stonework is dressed and constructed to a

higher quality than is generally achieved in the Reconquista period elements.

3.4 The rectangular limestone Tower stands to a height of approximately 24

metres on the rectangular limestone base of a former minaret (4.76 by 3.62

metres) from an earlier mosque (now lost). The base dates from the Moorish

period, whereas the upper Bell Tower and Belfry are in an Herrerian style,

the official architectural style of the Hapsburgs in the 16th century.

3.5 There are two infilled or blinded round arches in the northern wall of the

North Aisle next to the Tower and another blinded horseshoe arch at the

north end of the south-west façade [Fig. 128m]. These appear to be of

Moorish period date surviving from the earlier mosque. It seems probable

that the external wall of the South Aisle follows the line and orientation of

the qibla traverse wall of the former mosque building, which consequently

orientates the church apse towards the north-east.

3.6 The nave is lined by stonework arcading to second storey height in an early


piers. It seems likely that this arcading predates the Mudéjar south-west

façade but is coeval with the apse end as no abutment is visible.

3.7 It therefore seems probable that the smaller, less finely dressed stonework of

the aisle walls survives from the Moorish period. The apse and nave were the

first Reconquista period constructions enabling the church to be consecrated

for immediate use as part of the “Iglesias Fernandinas”. The south-west

entrance façade, on its unusual axis, would have completed the church

around the turn of the 14th century. The Portico, as a later abutment, probably

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4.1 This parish church was started in the 13th century by order of Ferdinand III.

This church is situated in the district which bears the same name. Despite the

many reforms, restoration work at the beginning of the century has recovered

part of its original appearance (Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.). The tower

was built on top of the minaret of the 10th century Mugira mosque

(Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.; Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 179), some of the

remains of which can still be seen in the main body of the tower, the three

upper sections being 16th century additions by Hernán Ruiz II (Daroca Bruño

et al. 2003: 179). The movement of the upper prisms is a precursor in style of

the Giralda tower in Seville. Inside the building, features include the main

altar, with its plethora of Italian-Gothic paintings, and the Baroque main

altarpiece, which is now kept at the bottom end of the church, near the

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from the south-west.

Fig. 128e: Bell tower viewed from the

south-west

Fig. 128d: West aspect viewed from

the east.

Fig. 128f: North-west aspect viewed

from the south-west



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Fig. 128g: North-west aspect

Fig. 128i: Inside Portico from the north-

west

Fig. 128k: Portico from the south-east

Fig. 128h: North-west aspect

Fig. 128j: South-west entrance: Door A

Fig. 128l: Apse from the north-east



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Fig. 128m: blinded horseshoe arch at the

north end of the south-west façade.



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Fig.128n: The Nave Looking north-east

Fig.128p: The Minaret / Tower from the

east

Fig.128o: The Minaret / Tower from the

south-east

Fig.128q: The Minaret / Tower



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2 Pages A4 Size



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7.0 Bibliography

Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.: Córdoba: Oficinas De Información Turística, (ed. Ayuntamiento de Córdoba) Ayuntamiento de Córdoba, Córdoba. Daroca Bruño, F., Yllescas Ortiz, M. & De La Fuente Darder, F. (eds.) 2003: Córdoba: Guía De Arquitectura. Córdoba: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectura de Córdoba. Fuertes Romero, R.-M., López Guerrero, R., Rodríguez Sánchez, M. & Valdivieso Ramos, A. 2003. "La Qurtuba Islámica: Las Mezquitas", in J. Fernández (ed.) Guía Archaeológica De Córdoba, pp. 148-150. Córdoba: Plurabelle. Geddes, J. 2001. "Iron", in J. Blair & N. Ramsey (eds.): English Medieval Industries : Craftsmen, Techniques, Products, pp. 167-188. London: Hambledon and London. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Iglesias Costa, M. 1989: Arquitectura Sacra: Desde El Period Gótico (Siglo Xiii) Hasta La Actualidad. Zaragoza: Gobierno de Aragon. Ministerio de Cultura n.d.: Bien De Interés Cultural: La Base De Datos De Bienes Inmuebles, http://www.mcu.es/bienes/cargarFiltroBienesInmuebles.do?layout=bienesInmuebles&cache=init&language=es.




10 metres10 metresSurvey Reference: DB128 Drawing No: 128.1Building Short Name: Iglesia de San LorenzoAddress: Plaza de San Lorenzo, Córdoba, SpainScale: 1:200 Sheet Size: ISO A4

Ground Floor Plan

Portico

Door A

Minaret

Nave

Chapel

Chapel

Apse

North Aisle

South Aisle

10 metres10 metresSurvey Reference: DB128 Drawing No: 128.2Building Short Name: Iglesia de San LorenzoAddress: Plaza de San Lorenzo, Córdoba, SpainScale: 1:200 Sheet Size: ISO A4

South West Elevation



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1.1

Building Short Name

Iglesia Convento de San Pablo

1.2 Variant Names Monastic Church of San Pablo

1.3 Address Calle Capitulares, Córdoba, Spain

1.4



1.5


Designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.).




structure is intact up to roof level.

Legibility is Medium (2). The walls are

unrendered.

Accessibility is Low (1). The medieval

structure is largely obscured by later buildings.





1.7 Primary Building Technique 1400AD: Stone; large bonded with very large;


mortar.





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additions in the later Reconquista and Imperial periods (Daroca Bruño et al.

2003: 174). It is currently a catholic church.

2.2 The building is located on its own plaza in the parish of San Pablo north-east

of the Mezquita.

2.3 The main (west) entrance is via timber double leaf door from the plaza.


3.1 The plaza has an Andalucían limestone gateway from the street sculptured in

Baroque styles of the Imperial period. Foundations and walls of the building

are of Andalusían limestone and rise to a height of approximately 20m above

the 13th century nave. Walls are not rendered and stonework is exposed and

visible. The nave has one aisle on either side to the north and south

constructed on high pointed arches [Fig. 129f] that date to the late 13th or

early 14th century.

3.2 The main medieval west entrance no longer survives. It has been replaced

with an Imperial period portal in Mannerist proportions It has a The entrance

is via timber double leaf door with a rounded arch and framed by carved

limestone pilasters and headed by a limestone alfiz in an Imperial period

Mannerist style. Above the doorway is a Mannerist broken pediment with

Christian iconography - an inset statue. Above the pediment is an elaborate

rose window [Fig. 129d] above it at third storey height that is indicative of a

13th-century Gothic style.

3.3 There is a single two-storey semi-octagonal apse at the east end with

supporting piers but no buttresses. The apse structure is characteristic of 13th-

14th-century Castilian churches during the Gothic to Mudéjar transition

(Iglesias Costa 1989: 28; 166; 250).

3.4 The north and south aisle doorways are also built with high-pointed

limestone arch with archivolts on limestone pilaster capitals. The tightly

undercut and decorated archivolts are characteristic of High Gothic tool

carving of the 13th century (Geddes 2001: 168).



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3.5 The nave is lined by stonework arcading to third storey height in an early


piers. Above the Nave at the western end, there is a limestone ogee arch in a

Mudéjar style likely to date to the late 13th or early 14th century. There is no

clear evidence to suggest that the apse, nave, aisles, and doorways were built

in anymore than one phase around the end of the 13th century.

3.6. Roofs are tiled with 20th century ceramic roof tiles.


4.1 In front of Cordoba Town Hall stands the church of San Pablo. It was built

between the 13th and 14th centuries, but was heavily reformed in the 18th.

The main façade opens out onto Calle Capitulares and the main entrance has

spiralling columns known as Salomonica. The tower has one of the three best

preserved bell-towers in the whole of Spain. Past the plaza at the entrance,

the main door can be seen, which is in a Mannerist style and leads to the

church itself, which is divided into three naves. The features on the inside are

the decorative ceilings in Mudéjar style, the main altarpiece, the vaulted

building or qubba (possibly remains of an Almohade palace over which the

church was built) and the well-known image of Nuestra Señora de las

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Fig. 129c: West Gate

Fig. 129e: East Gate




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Nave Looking East Nave Looking North-East

Nave Looking South-East Nave Looking South

Fig. 129f Ground Floor Nave and Aisles



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Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.: Córdoba: Oficinas De Información Turística, (ed. Ayuntamiento de Córdoba) Ayuntamiento de Córdoba, Córdoba. Daroca Bruño, F., Yllescas Ortiz, M. & De La Fuente Darder, F. (eds.) 2003: Córdoba: Guía De Arquitectura. Córdoba: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectura de Córdoba. Geddes, J. 2001. "Iron", in J. Blair & N. Ramsey (eds.): English Medieval Industries : Craftsmen, Techniques, Products, pp. 167-188. London: Hambledon and London. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Iglesias Costa, M. 1989: Arquitectura Sacra: Desde El Period Gótico (Siglo Xiii) Hasta La Actualidad. Zaragoza: Gobierno de Aragon. Ministerio de Cultura n.d.: Bien De Interés Cultural: La Base De Datos De Bienes Inmuebles, http://www.mcu.es/bienes/cargarFiltroBienesInmuebles.do?layout=bienesInmuebles&cache=init&language=es.






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1.1

Building Short Name

Iglesia de San Agustín

1.2 Variant Names Church of San Agustín

1.3 Address Plaza de San Agustín, Córdoba, Spain

1.4



1.5

Statutory and non-statutory

designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.)



Preservation is Medium (2). The medieval

structure is partially intact up to roof level.

Legibility is Low (1). The walls are rendered.

Accessibility is Low (1). The medieval

structure is obscured by later buildings.






dressed; well squared; regular; thick mortar.



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2.1 Reconquista period church of earliest known date 14th century with additions

in the later Reconquista and Imperial periods (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003:

184). It is currently a catholic church.

2.2 The building is located on its own plaza in the parish of Santa Marina north-


2.3 The main (south-west) entrance is via timber double leaf door from the plaza.



approximately 24m above the 14th century nave. Walls are rendered in sand

and cement and the stonework is not visible.

3.2 The main (south-west) entrance is via timber double leaf late Renaissance

door with a tympanum and basket handle arches characteristic of the 15th

century through a Baroque façade characteristic of the 17th century (Daroca

Bruño et al. 2003: 183).

3.3 There is a single two-storey semi-octagonal apse at the east end with


14th-century Castilian churches during the Gothic to Mudéjar transition

(Iglesias Costa 1989: 28; 166; 250). The nave has one aisle on either side to

the north and south. The medieval nave and aisles are separated by

rectangular columns but heavily concealed by plasterwork of the Imperial

period.

3.4 The square limestone Tower and the choir date to the late 16th century





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4.1 This church, near the church of San Lorenzo, dates back to 1328 in its

original form, but as in many of the Fernandine churches, the medieval

structure has been almost completely hidden by Baroque additions. The

main entrance is a later feature from the 16th and 17th centuries, resulting in

a series of arches and Corinthian columns with a split pediment above. The

interior, divided into three naves and a transept. Murals and frescoes were

discovered during the restoration to the building between 2007 and 2009 by

the Andalusian Government (Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.).



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Fig. 130e: Nave and North Aisle

looking east

Fig. 130d: West aspect and Plaza

viewed from the south-west.

Fig. 130f: Nave looking east



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Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.: Córdoba: Oficinas De Información Turística, (ed. Ayuntamiento de Córdoba) Ayuntamiento de Córdoba, Córdoba. Daroca Bruño, F., Yllescas Ortiz, M. & De La Fuente Darder, F. (eds.) 2003: Córdoba: Guía De Arquitectura. Córdoba: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectura de Córdoba. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Iglesias Costa, M. 1989: Arquitectura Sacra: Desde El Period Gótico (Siglo Xiii) Hasta La Actualidad. Zaragoza: Gobierno de Aragon. Ministerio de Cultura n.d.: Bien De Interés Cultural: La Base De Datos De Bienes Inmuebles, http://www.mcu.es/bienes/cargarFiltroBienesInmuebles.do?layout=bienesInmuebles&cache=init&language=es.






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1.1 Building Short Name Iglesia de Santa Marina

1.2 Variant Names Iglesia de Santa Marina de Aguas Santas

Church of Santa Marina de Aguas Santas

1.3 Address Campo del Conde de Priego de Mayo,

Córdoba, Spain

1.4



1.5


Designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.)





Legibility is Medium (2). Most of the walls

are unrendered.

Accessibility is Low (1). The building is

insufficiently accessible to enable internal

hand survey.







mortar.



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2.1 Reconquista period church of earliest known date 13th century with additions

in the later Reconquista and Imperial periods (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003:

187). It is currently a catholic church.

2.2 The building is located on its own plaza in the parish of Santa Marina north-


2.3 The main (south-west) entrance is via timber double leaf door from the plaza.



approximately 19m above the 13th - 14th century nave. Walls are not rendered

and the stonework is visible.

3.2 The main (south-west) entrance is via timber double leaf door headed by a

low pointed arch in a 13th or 14th-century Gothic-Mudéjar transition style.

Above is an elaborate rose window [Fig. 131c] at second storey height that is

indicative of a 13th-century Gothic style.

3.3 There is a three-storey semi-octagonal apse at the north-east end of the nave

with supporting piers but no buttresses. The apse structure is characteristic of

13th-14th-century Castilian churches during the Gothic to Mudéjar transition


the north-west and south-east. The nave and aisles are separated by prismatic

columns but heavily concealed by plasterwork of the Imperial period. Each

aisle has a two-storey semi-octagonal apse added and abutted to its north-east

end in a similar 14th-century Mudéjar style to the primary apse. The primary

apse, nave and aisles appear to have been constructed in a single phase

around the end of the 13th century, whereas the church was clearly appended

with the two additional apes sometime during the 14th century.

3.4 The square limestone Tower dates to the late 16th century (Daroca Bruño et

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4.1 In the Plaza del Conde de Priego, in a district which takes its name from the

church, stands the largest parish church in Cordoba, Santa Marina, which

was founded by King Ferdinand III "the Saint". Its construction started in the

late 13th century and continued during the 14th (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003:

187). It combines the late Romanic style with Gothic and Mudéjar, although

there are also additions from later centuries, such as the Renaissance tower

and the sanctuary, which was restored during the 18th century. Inside the

building the nave and aisles are in Baroque style ending in polygonal apses

separated by pointed arches on prismatic pillars. The church features a 15th

century Mudéjar baptistery chapel and the funerary chapel of the Orozco

family, and a Mudéjar coffered ceiling above the nave (Ayuntamiento de

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Fig. 131c: South-West aspect

Fig. 131e: North-East aspect

Fig. 131g: North-East aspect

Fig. 131d: South-West aspect


Fig. 131h: Bell Tower



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1.1

Building Short Name

Iglesia de San Pedro

1.2 Variant Names Iglesia de San Pedro de Alcántara

Church of St. Peter the Apostle

1.3 Address Plaza de San Pedro, Córdoba, Spain



Designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.).




medieval walls to third storey height, although

the building has been subject to modern repair.

Legibility is Medium (2). Its walls are partially

rendered.

Accessibility is Low (2). The upper storeys of

the building are unattainable for detailed

measured survey.



phases spanned 2 periods- Reconquista and

Imperial.




mortar.





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additions in the 16th, 17th and 19th centuries (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 166).

It is currently a catholic church.

2.2 The building is located on its own plaza in the parish of San Pedro north east

of the Mezquita.

2.3 The main (west) entrance is via timber double leaf door (Door A) through an

arched vestibule.



17.62m above the nave. Many walls are unrendered and stonework is

exposed and visible. The nave has one aisle on either side to the north and

south constructed on high pointed arches that date to the late 13th or early

14th century.

3.2 The main medieval west entrance no longer survives. It has been replaced

with an Imperial period portal in 16th-century Mannerist proportions

comprising pilasters and a pediment at second storey level. However, there is

an elaborate rose window [Fig. 132g] above it at third storey height that is

indicative of a 13th-century Gothic style. The north and south aisle doorways

(Doors B & C) [Drawing 132.1 & Fig. 132h] are also built with high-pointed

limestone arch with archivolts on limestone pilaster capitals. The tightly

undercut and decorated archivolts are characteristic of High Gothic tool


3.3 There is a single three-storey semi-octagonal apse at the east end with

supporting piers but no buttresses [Drawing 132.1 & Fig. 132d]. The apse

has three elongated round-arch windows and the whole structure is

characteristic of 13th-14th-century Castilian churches during the Gothic to

Mudéjar transition (Iglesias Costa 1989: 28; 166; 250).

3.4 The nave is lined by stonework arcading to third storey height in an early


piers [Fig. 132g]. The apse and the nave abut each other suggesting that one



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was built before the other. It seems likely the apse was built first and the

church therefore consecrated for immediate use as part of the programme of

“Iglesias Fernandinas” in the mid 13th century. There is no clear evidence to

suggest that the nave, aisles, and doorways were built in anymore than one

phase around the end of the 13th century.

3.5 The rectangular limestone Tower is purported to stand on a rectangular

limestone base of medieval date (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 166) but there is

no evidence present to support this. The Tower Belfry is in a later 16th-

century Herrerian design from the Imperial period.

3.6 The eastern façade encloses the Apse with a series of arches in similar

proportions to the Herrerian Belfy and also likely to date from the later 16th

century.



4.1 This parish church was started in the late 13th century by order of Ferdinand

III. Two Medieval doorways have survived to this day as well as the first

section of the tower (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 166). Changes were made by

the architect Hernán Ruiz II in the 16th century, when the main façade was

built, and by Juan de Ochoa, who built the sacristy in the 16th century (Daroca

Bruño et al. 2003: 166). In the 17th century, plasterwork was added to the

original ceilings. The most notable feature on the inside is the main altarpiece,

made in the 18th century by Félix Morales Negrete, and the altarpiece in the

Chapel of the Martyrs, by Alonso Gómez de Sandoval (Ayuntamiento de

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Fig. 132f: South aspect

Fig. 132g: West aspect & Door A Fig. 132h: Door C



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Looking East Looking North East

South Aisle Looking East Looking North East

Fig. 132i Nave and Aisles



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7.0 Bibliography

Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.: Córdoba: Oficinas De Información Turística, (ed. Ayuntamiento de Córdoba) Ayuntamiento de Córdoba, Córdoba. Daroca Bruño, F., Yllescas Ortiz, M. & De La Fuente Darder, F. (eds.) 2003: Córdoba: Guía De Arquitectura. Córdoba: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectura de Córdoba. Geddes, J. 2001. "Iron", in J. Blair & N. Ramsey (eds.): English Medieval Industries : Craftsmen, Techniques, Products, pp. 167-188. London: Hambledon and London. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Iglesias Costa, M. 1989: Arquitectura Sacra: Desde El Period Gótico (Siglo Xiii) Hasta La Actualidad. Zaragoza: Gobierno de Aragon. Ministerio de Cultura n.d.: Bien De Interés Cultural: La Base De Datos De Bienes Inmuebles, http://www.mcu.es/bienes/cargarFiltroBienesInmuebles.do?layout=bienesInmuebles&cache=init&language=es.




20 metres (approx.)

Survey Reference:DB132 Drawing No:132.1Building Short Name: Iglesia San PedroAddress: Plaza de San Pedro, Córdoba, SpainScale: 1:500 Sheet Size: ISO A4

Ground Floor Plan

West Elevation East Elevation

Tower

Door A Nave

Door B

Door C

Chapel



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1.1 Building Short Name Iglesia de Santiago

1.2 Variant Names Church of St. James

1.3 Address Calle Agustín Moreno, Córdoba, Spain



designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.).




surviving medieval walls to second storey

height, although the building has been subject

to modern repair and addition.

Legibility is Medium (2). The walls of the

building have been partially rendered.

Accessibility is Medium (2). Large parts of the

building are obscured by modern elements.




and Reconquista.


1.7 Primary Building Technique 1200AD: Stone; very large; ashlar; well

squared; regular; thin mortar.


ashlar; rectangular; regular coursing; thin

mortar.



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additions in the 13th, 15th, 16th, 19th and 20th centuries. It is currently a

catholic church.

2.2 The building is located on a main thoroughfare in the parish of Santiago


2.3 The main (west) entrance (Door A) is via timber double leaf door from a

narrow side street (Calle Ronquillo Riceño) running north to south.



19.1m above the 13th century nave. Walls are partly rendered but some areas

are exposed. The nave has one aisle on either side to the north and south. The

medieval arcading has been removed and replaced with 19th-century rounded

arches atop cruciform columns and covered by coffered wooden ceilings

(Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 156). The South Aisle retains its High Gothic

ribbed vaulting.

3.2 The main (west) entrance is via timber double leaf door. The doorway has a

high-pointed limestone arch with archivolts decorated with diamond point

patterns and a frieze with floral motifs on limestone pilaster capitals [Fig.

133e]. The tightly undercut and decorated archivolts and the elaborate rose

window at second storey height are characteristic of High Gothic tool


3.3 There is a single three-storey semi-octagonal apse at the east end with ribbed

vaulting and supporting piers but no buttresses in a 13th or 14th century style

(Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 156) [Drawing 133.1]. The whole structure of the

apse is characteristic of 13th-14th-century Castilian churches during the

Gothic to Mudéjar transition (Iglesias Costa 1989: 28; 166; 250). There is no

clear evidence to suggest that the nave, aisles, and doorways were built in

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3.4 The minaret/ Bell Tower (3.73 by 2.99 metres) is in a Baroque style of the

Imperial period but is founded on the base of a minaret of the Moorish period

(Collins 1998: 122).



4.1 Like most of the Fernandine churches, this one was built on the site of a

former Omeyan mosque of which the minaret has survived to this day,

converted into a Christian tower (Fuertes Romero et al. 2003: 149; Daroca

Bruño et al. 2003: 156). Many of its original architectural features were

subject to restoration work carried out on the building in the 19th century

(Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 156). The main body of the church, rectangular in

shape, is divided into a nave and two aisles. Among the many artistic works

is the image of Cristo de las Penas (Christ of Grief), an anonymous work

from the 15th century (Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.).

4.2 The north doorway opens on to Calle Agustín Moreno by way of a portico of

rounded arches built in the 19th century. In 1981 the church suffered a

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the west.


the south.

Fig. 133d: North aspect viewed from

the north-west.

Fig. 133f: North aspect viewed from

the east



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Fig. 133g: North Entrance Fig. 133h: West aspect from the south

Fig. 133i: North Entrance Fig. 133j: West aspect from the north



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7.0 Bibliography

Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.: Córdoba: Oficinas De Información Turística, (ed. Ayuntamiento de Córdoba) Ayuntamiento de Córdoba, Córdoba. Collins, R. 1998: Spain: An Oxford Archaeological Guide. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Daroca Bruño, F., Yllescas Ortiz, M. & De La Fuente Darder, F. (eds.) 2003: Córdoba: Guía De Arquitectura. Córdoba: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectura de Córdoba. Fuertes Romero, R.-M., López Guerrero, R., Rodríguez Sánchez, M. & Valdivieso Ramos, A. 2003. "La Qurtuba Islámica: Las Mezquitas", in J. Fernández (ed.) Guía Archaeológica De Córdoba, pp. 148-150. Córdoba: Plurabelle. Geddes, J. 2001. "Iron", in J. Blair & N. Ramsey (eds.): English Medieval Industries : Craftsmen, Techniques, Products, pp. 167-188. London: Hambledon and London. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Iglesias Costa, M. 1989: Arquitectura Sacra: Desde El Period Gótico (Siglo Xiii) Hasta La Actualidad. Zaragoza: Gobierno de Aragon. Ministerio de Cultura n.d.: Bien De Interés Cultural: La Base De Datos De Bienes Inmuebles, http://www.mcu.es/bienes/cargarFiltroBienesInmuebles.do?layout=bienesInmuebles&cache=init&language=es.




10 metres10 metresSurvey Reference:DB133 Drawing No:133.1Building Short Name: Iglesia de SantiagoAddress: Calle Agustín Moreno, Córdoba, SpainScale: 1:200 Sheet Size: ISO A4

BellTower

Nave

North Aisle

South Aisle

Door A

Ground Floor Plan



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1.1

Building Short Name

Iglesia de San Andrés

1.2 Variant Names Church of San Andrés

1.3 Address Plaza de San Andrés-Realejo, Córdoba, Spain

1.4



1.5


Designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.)



Preservation is Medium (2). Elements of the

medieval structure is intact up to roof level.

Legibility is Medium (2). Many of the walls

are rendered.

Accessibility is Low (1). The greater part of

the building is poorly lit or inaccessible to

hand survey.







mortar.



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2.1 Reconquista period church of earliest known date early 13th century (Daroca

Bruño et al. 2003: 176).

2.2 The building is located on a plaza in the parish of San Andrés north-east of

the Mezquita.

2.3 The west entrance is via timber double leaf door directly from the street.


3.1 Foundations of the perimeter walls are of Andalusían limestone but rise in

local clay brickwork construction. Perimeter brickwork walls are not

rendered but exposed.

3.2 The west entrance was constructed with a slightly pointed splayed arch set on

slender columns with sculptural decoration. It has been dated to 1489


3.3 The central apse of the Fernandian church is polygonal in shape with gothic

ogives now hidden by 18th-century groined arches. It is a two-storey semi-

octagonal apse at the east end of the nave with supporting piers but no

buttresses. The apse structure is characteristic of 13th-14th-century Castilian

churches during the Gothic to Mudéjar transition (Iglesias Costa 1989: 28;

166; 250). The medieval nave has one aisle on either side to the north and

south. The nave and aisles are separated by prismatic columns but heavily

concealed by plasterwork characteristic of the Imperial period. The medieval

apse and nave abut each other implying that were constructed separately. The

nave and aisles are of the same building technique and bonded together

suggesting that they were constructed in a single phase. It is possible that the

apse was constructed first and the was church consecrated for Christian use

as part of the 13th-century “Iglesias Fernandinas” programme and that the

nave and aisles were built on the foundations of a former mosque’s qibla.

This would explain the medieval church’s north-east orientation.

3.4 The main body of the church was re-orientated and remodelled in a Baroque

style in the 18th century (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 176).



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4.1 This parish was consecrated in the 13th century, after the reconquest of the

city, on the site where a visigothic church devoted to St. Zoilo had been. The

building was finished in 1489, the date established by the early main portal,

nowadays the side entrance. In the 16th century, the tower was erected and in

the 18th century, under Bishop Marcelino Siuri, a new church was built,

changing the orientation of the old one and maintaining the portal and eastern

end. Inside are altar pieces of the 16th and 18th centuries (Ayuntamiento de

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the north-west.

Fig. 134e: North aspect viewed from

the north-west

Fig. 134g: West Portal


the north-west.


Fig. 134h: Nave. Looking south.



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1.1

Building Short Name

Iglesia de San Miguel

1.2 Variant Names Church of San Miguel

1.3 Address Plaza de San Miguel, Córdoba, Spain

1.4



1.5


Designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.).






partially rendered.


the building is poorly lit or inaccessible to

survey.







mortar.



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Bruño et al. 2003: 200).

2.2 The building is located on a plaza in the parish of San Andrés north-east of

the Mezquita.

2.3 The main (south-west) entrance is via timber double leaf door directly from

the street.



approximately 20m above the 13th - 14th century nave. Walls are not rendered

and the stonework is visible.

3.2 The main (south-west) entrance is via timber double leaf door headed by a

low pointed arch in a 13th or 14th-century Gothic-Mudéjar transition style.

Above is an elaborate rose window [Fig. 135f] at second storey height that is

indicative of a 13th-century Gothic style.

3.3 There is a three-storey semi-octagonal apse at the north-east end of the nave

with supporting piers but no buttresses. The apse structure is characteristic of

13th-14th-century Castilian churches during the Gothic to Mudéjar transition


the north-west and south-east. The nave and aisles are separated by prismatic

columns supporting high pointed Gothic arches. Each aisle has a two-storey

semi-octagonal apse added and abutted to its north-east end in a similar 14th-

century Mudéjar style to the primary apse. The nave and aisles appear to

have been constructed in a single phase around the end of the 13th century,

whereas the church was clearly appended with the two additional apes

sometime during the 14th century.

3.4 The primary apse and nave abut each other implying that were constructed

separately. The nave and aisles are of the same building technique and

bonded together suggesting that they were constructed in a single phase. It is

possible that the apse was constructed first and the was church consecrated

for Christian use as part of the 13th-century “Iglesias Fernandinas”



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programme and that the nave and aisles were built on the foundations of a

former mosque’s qibla. This would explain the medieval church’s north-east

orientation. The South Door has a Moorish period horseshoe arch [Fig. 135g]

in Caliphal style striped stonework that supports this hypothesis.


4.1 This is a parish church from the period of Fernando III built on the site of an

old mosque. The interior has three naves, the central on covered by a

coffered ceiling and three polygonal apses with ribbed vaults. The north one

was reformed in 1761. The vestry was built in 1602 and the tower in 1749.

On the south aisle is the Capilla de los Vargos with its octagonal ribbed

dome, a Mudéjar work from the 15th century, which is entered by way of a

pointed horseshoe arch with saw tooth mouldings (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003:

200).



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Fig. 135e: West door.

Fig. 135g: South aspect door


the north-west.

Fig. 135f: West aspect rose window

Fig. 135h: Nave. Looking east.



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Daroca Bruño, F., Yllescas Ortiz, M. & De La Fuente Darder, F. (eds.) 2003: Córdoba: Guía De Arquitectura. Córdoba: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectura de Córdoba. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Iglesias Costa, M. 1989: Arquitectura Sacra: Desde El Period Gótico (Siglo Xiii) Hasta La Actualidad. Zaragoza: Gobierno de Aragon. Ministerio de Cultura n.d.: Bien De Interés Cultural: La Base De Datos De Bienes Inmuebles, http://www.mcu.es/bienes/cargarFiltroBienesInmuebles.do?layout=bienesInmuebles&cache=init&language=es.






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1.1 Building Short Name Iglesia de San Francisco

1.2 Variant Names Iglesia de San Francisco y San Eulogio de la

Axerquía

Convento de San Pedro el Real

Church of San Francisco

1.3 Address Calle San Fernando, Córdoba, Spain

1.4



1.5


Designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.)





Legibility is Low (1). The walls are rendered.


the building is inaccessible to survey.







mortar.



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Bruño et al. 2003: 149).

2.2 The building is located on a plaza in the parish of San Nicolás de la Axerquía


2.3 The west entrance is via timber double leaf door directly from the street.


3.1 Foundations of the perimeter walls are of Andalusían limestone. Perimeter

brickwork walls are not rendered but exposed. Little is visible of the

Reconquista period structure but the church is laid out in the Roman

cruciform plan with a Choir ahead of the transept towards the north-east.

3.2 There is a two-storey semi-octagonal apse at the east end of the transept with


14th-century Castilian churches during the Gothic to Mudéjar transition (c.f.

Iglesias Costa 1989: 28; 166; 250). The medieval nave has been removed and

there is no visible evidence for medieval aisles.

3.3 The nave was constructed in the Baroque style in the 18th century.


4.1 The Franciscan convent of San Pedro was founded in the 13th century and

dissolved in 1812. Only the church remains. The façade is of grey marble in

1731. The church is laid out in a Latin cross configuration with a single 18th-

century nave, a high choir and a sanctuary with three polygonal apses(Daroca

Bruño et al. 2003: 149). The nave is covered by a groined barrel vault, whilst

the transept has an oval dome set on squinches. The central apse is covered

by a barrel vault with arch ribs. Two 17th-century bays remain on 13th-

century cloister foundations with 2 storeys of semicircular arches set on

columns with Tuscan capitals. The 18th-century bell gable, located in a

corner, has a serlian arch.



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Fig. 136e: Nave. Looking east.


Fig. 136f: Nave. Looking west.



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Daroca Bruño, F., Yllescas Ortiz, M. & De La Fuente Darder, F. (eds.) 2003: Córdoba: Guía De Arquitectura. Córdoba: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectura de Córdoba. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Iglesias Costa, M. 1989: Arquitectura Sacra: Desde El Period Gótico (Siglo Xiii) Hasta La Actualidad. Zaragoza: Gobierno de Aragon. Ministerio de Cultura n.d.: Bien De Interés Cultural: La Base De Datos De Bienes Inmuebles, http://www.mcu.es/bienes/cargarFiltroBienesInmuebles.do?layout=bienesInmuebles&cache=init&language=es.






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1.1

Building Short Name

Capilla de San Bartolomé

1.2 Variant Names Chapel of San Bartolomé, Chapel of the

Hospital of Cardinal Salazar

1.3 Address Plaza del Cardenal Salazar,

Córdoba, Spain

1.4



1.5


Designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.).






partially rendered.









mortar.



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2.1 Reconquista period Chapel and Courtyard of earliest proposed date 13th

century. It is currently a museum and tourist attraction.

2.2 The building is located on a narrow street running north-east to south-west in

the parish of Santa Maria north-west of the Mezquita.

2.3 The sole (east) entrance is via a pointed-arched gate directly from the street

to the Courtyard.



Perimeter walls are high (approximately 6 metres) and partially rendered in

cement and sand plaster and are painted.

3.2 The complex is entered via a double width doorway (Door A) with a modern

iron gate. There is a (reused) high pointed arch (Door A) [Drawing 137.1 &

Fig. 137d] heading the doorway with archivolts and an alfiz all in limestone

and characteristic of a 13th to 14th-century Mudéjar style,

3.3 Door A leads into the rectangular Courtyard (12.77m x 7.39m) including a

portico Gallery on the south side. The portico incorporates two reused fluted

marble columns with foliated capital of Visigothic appearance.

3.4 At the east end of the Courtyard, there are stone steps up to a centred arch,

characteristic of the 15th / 16th century, opening onto a small recess or 19th-

century Side Chapel containing a restored Baroque shrine. In the north wall

there are three rounded arches, now infilled with brickwork that may have

been a portico to the north side of the complex now lost.

3.5 The portico Gallery encompasses the main entrance to the Chapel (Door B)

[Fig. 137h], which is a double leaf timber door through a high pointed arch

carved with chevrons and an alfiz with marble pilasters in a 14th-century

Mudéjar style (Iglesias Costa 1989: 28; 166; 250).

3.6 The interior of the Chapel is made up of a single rectangular nave (9.0m x

5.0m) a crossed vaulted ceiling [Fig. 137] characteristic of the 13th – 14th

century. There is a raised tiled plinth at the east end with a recessed altar set

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3.7 The Chapel and its courtyard complex are orientated along a south-west to

north-east axis. This suggests that the lost church and any possible lost

mosque also lay on this orientation.


4.1 This chapel, once the parish church of San Bartolomé, now forms part of the

Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, the former Cardinal Salazar hospital, and is

an example of Mudéjar architecture. It was commissioned by Domingo

Muñoz in the 13th century (Calvert 1906: 153). It became attached to the

newly established parish church of San Bartolomé (now lost) after a violent

assault on the Juderia in 1391 (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 124). In the

Baroque period, it was incorporated into the hospital, and then restored in the

19th century. There are traces of former murals behind the altar. The last

restoration work was carried out in the 1970s, but recently work has started

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from the west.

Fig. 137e: Courtyard viewed from the

south-west

Fig. 137d: South-west entrance

Fig. 137f: Courtyard viewed from the

south

Fig. 137g: Courtyard viewed from the

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Looking East Looking North-east

Looking North Looking North

Looking North Looking South-west

Fig. 137h Chapel



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Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.: Córdoba: Oficinas De Información Turística, (ed. Ayuntamiento de Córdoba) Ayuntamiento de Córdoba, Córdoba. Calvert, A. F. 1906: Moorish Remains in Spain : Being a Brief Record of the Arabian Conquest of the Peninsula with a Particular Account of the Mohammedan Architecture and Decoration in Cordova, Seville & Toledo London & New York: John Lane. Daroca Bruño, F., Yllescas Ortiz, M. & De La Fuente Darder, F. (eds.) 2003: Córdoba: Guía De Arquitectura. Córdoba: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectura de Córdoba. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Iglesias Costa, M. 1989: Arquitectura Sacra: Desde El Period Gótico (Siglo Xiii) Hasta La Actualidad. Zaragoza: Gobierno de Aragon. Ministerio de Cultura n.d.: Bien De Interés Cultural: La Base De Datos De Bienes Inmuebles, http://www.mcu.es/bienes/cargarFiltroBienesInmuebles.do?layout=bienesInmuebles&cache=init&language=es.




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A

A

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Chapel

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1.1 Building Short Name Casa de los Luna

1.2 Variant Names House of the Luna Family

1.3 Address Plaza de San Andrés, Córdoba, Spain


1.5


Designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.)




medieval structure are intact.


partially rendered.

Accessibility is Medium (2). The interior of

the building is obscured by later remodelling.

Stratigraphical Complexity is Low (2). The

building spans one period - Imperial.


1.7 Primary Building Technique Stone; very large; ashlar; rectangular; regular;

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2.1 Early Imperial period house or palace of earliest suggested date mid-16th

century with Late Imperial and Modern period additions. It is currently a

Ministry of Culture office and art gallery.

2.2 The building is located on its own plaza in the parish of San Andrés north-


2.3 The main (north) entrance is via timber double leaf door (Door A). There are

3 storeys above ground plus roof space.


3.1 Foundations and walls are of Andalusían limestone ashlar and rise to a height

of 11.43m at the highest point. Walls are mostly not rendered and ashlar

stones are exposed.

3.2 The main entrance (Door A) is in the North Elevation on the ground floor

and leads into the mid-16th century Imperial period part of the building. Door

A is a double leaf timber doorway in Herrerian proportions with an ashlar

stone lintel decorated in heraldic motifs in a Plateresque style characteristic

of the 16th century.

3.3 The first floor of the north elevation above Door A is pierced by a

rectangular window (Window A) bordered by pilasters and a balconet with

decorative stone with heraldic motifs all in a Plateresque style characteristic

of the 16th century. A host and guest would have been able to make a visible

appearance and address from this window to the plaza below but would not

have been able to step out.

3.4 The third floor is a Late-Imperial period addition with industrial brickwork

pierced by 2 sets of rectangular double loggia window openings each

separated by a marble column.

3.5 The eastern end of the north elevation has a rectangular window on both

ground and first floor levels, which are coeval with the surrounding

stonework. At the eastern corner, a rectangular corner window has been

inserted in ashlar at both first and second floor levels (Windows B&C). This

suggests that they are of a later date. These are of mimicked design to the



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Plateresque Window A & Door A and are therefore likely to be of a 19th

century revivalist style.

3.6 The northern block is the largest element of the Early Imperial period

building and would have been sufficient to provide an open space on the

First Floor for formal dining as well as service rooms on the Ground Floor.

The small Courtyard to the south is accessible via galleries and is comparable

in size to those of the Archivo Municipal [DB105] and the Casa de las Bulas

[DB121].



4.1 The House of the Luna family is an example of an Andalusian aristocratic

mansion in Plateresque style. The most striking feature is the stone façade,

which is attributed to the architect Hernán Ruiz I and built for Hernán Pérez de

Oliva, a famous humanist of the 16th century (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 33). It

was later enlarged by the addition of an extra floor, with double loggia-style

windows. The main entrance gate, framed by mouldings and pilasters on the

door posts, features original terminations in the form of stone balls on the ends

and relief work depicting garlands on the lintel, with the coat of arms of the

Luna family above. There is a double right-angled balcony on one corner,

spanning over two floors with a central column and framed with decorative

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the north-east.

Fig. 138e: East aspect

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Daroca Bruño, F., Yllescas Ortiz, M. & De La Fuente Darder, F. (eds.) 2003: Córdoba: Guía De Arquitectura. Córdoba: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectura de Córdoba. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Ministerio de Cultura n.d.: Bien De Interés Cultural: La Base De Datos De Bienes Inmuebles, http://www.mcu.es/bienes/cargarFiltroBienesInmuebles.do?layout=bienesInmuebles&cache=init&language=es.




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1.1 Building Short Name Puerta de Sevilla

1.2 Variant Names Seville Gate

1.3 Address Avenida Conde de Vallellano-Calle San

Bartolomé, Córdoba, Spain



designations











reconstruction.

Legibility is High (3). its walls have no

coverings.


publically accessible but partially obscured by

later buildings.



phases spanned 2 periods – Moorish and

Reconquista.

Archaeological Value is Medium (2).

1.7 Primary Building Technique 1200AD: Stone; large upon very large;


mortar. 1400AD: Stone; very large; dressed;




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2.1 Moorish period gate in the city perimeter wall of earliest known date 10th

century (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 107). It is currently a monumental ruin


2.2 The building is located on its own plaza in the parish of Santa Maria south-

west of the Mezquita.


3.1 Foundations and walls are of large bonded with very large Andalusían

limestone blocks that formed a 10th-century aqueduct (Daroca Bruño et al.

2003: 107). Walls are unrendered and possibly face over a mud brick pisé

spine. The remaining length of wall is approximately 91 metres long to its

extremities.

3.2 Walls are repaired with very large limestone blocks that date to the

Reconquista period and include modern repairs (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003:

107).

3.3 The gateway is toward the northern end of the wall and comprises two

openings: one with a horseshoe arch that is denotative of the Moorish period

and one with a rounded limestone arch likely to date from the Moorish

period or earlier (Fig. 139c).

3.4 A hexagonal limestone corner bastion stands approximate 49 metres south of

the gate. The stonework is entirely in very large, dressed, rectangular, stone

blocks in regular coursing with thick mortar. Its shape, form and composition

are in a highly decorative style of the Reconquista period and probably date

from the later 14th-century post-civil war consolidation works of Enrique II.


4.1 The ramparts that move away towards the river are Christian works from the

14th century, although they were almost entirely reconstructed in 1958 by

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Fig. 139d: East aspect from the south.



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1.1 Building Short Name Puerta del Rincón

1.2 Variant Names Torre de la Puerta del Rincón

Tower of the Corner Gate.

1.3 Address Calle Alfaros-Calle Isabel Losa,

Córdoba, Spain


Easting -4.776°


Designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.).






reconstruction.


coverings.







1.7 Primary Building Technique 1200AD: Stone; very large; dressed;


1400AD: Stone; very large; dressed;




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2.1 Moorish period section of the Medina wall of earliest proposed date 12th

century (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 194). It is currently a monumental ruin


2.2 The building is located in the parish of Santa Marina north-east of the

Mezquita.


3.1 Foundations are of Andalucían limestone construction. The foundations are

of regular stone blocks and are visible above ground level.

3.2 The spine of the wall is not exposed but is likely to be of similar pisé

construction to that at Muralla del Marrubial faced in limestone to a

maximum height of 16.45 metres. The walls have later renovations above 3

metres so that the medieval height cannot be determined but their

construction is comparable with that of the remaining walls of the Moorish

period Alcázar [DB109 Fig. 109d] and therefore likely to date to the 10th

century or earlier. The earliest elements are visible in the foundations and

walls below 3 metres in height, which are of limestone construction. The

foundations are of regular stone blocks and are visible above ground level.

The structure forms the north-east corner of the Medina wall and comprises a

large hexagonal bastion of 7.20 metres diameter [Fig. 140d]. Although

subject to later remodelling and repair, the construction of the lower section

of this bastion appears consistent with the 10th-century date and stands 10.84

metres high above the modern street level. The bastion itself has a horizontal

break line at 10.96 metres above ground level. Above this line, the building

technique employed is similar: very large, dressed, rectangular, stone blocks

in regular coursing with thick mortar. However, this upper stage has a

diminished radius and a truncated north-eastern face suggesting that it was

rebuilt after partial demolition and is likely to date from one of the

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3.3 The structural elements above the horizontal lines of discontinuity (at around

3 metres) are likely to date from later than the Moorish period. The building

technique comprises large bonded with very large, dressed, rectangular, stone

blocks in regular coursing with thick mortar. It is reasonable to surmise that

these survive from Reconquista period rebuilding works associated with the

mid 13th-century defence of the city and the mid 14th-century civil war. A

horizontal line of 8 joint mortises are visible along a horizontal break line in

the western return wall. The repairs above this line are of lower quality in a

mix of large stonework, stone rubble and irregular brickwork in patches.

Much of the brickwork forms arch and roof shapes that were clearly part of

later buildings abutted to the main structure. This may indicate that these

stem from a much later date in the Imperial period.


4.1 This medieval tower lies at the junction between the streets Calle Alfaros and

Calle Isabel Losa forming part of the remains of the city walls which

surrounded the old Medina. Just like the Portillo Arch, it was built to create a

passageway between the districts of the Medina and the Axerquía, and is

made up of an archway and some fairly solid defensive walls (Ayuntamiento

de Córdoba n.d.).

4.2 This fortified tower of the north-eastern bend of the Roman ramparts was

prolonged in the Caliphal period and became the Torre de la Puerta del

Rincón in the Almohade expansion during the 12th century. It has a

polygonal layout and curtain ramparts. The offset between the Medina and

the Axerquía corresponds to the ground floor of the Convento del Cister

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the north-east.



east.




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Building Short Name

Muralla del Marrubial

1.2 Variant Names Old Town Walls of Marrubial

1.3 Address Ronda del Marrubial, Córdoba, Spain



Designations



(1984/1994).





it has been subject to some modern repair.


coverings.


publically accessible but too large to be fully

recorded with the limits of this research.





1.7 Primary Building Technique 1200AD: Mud brick; large; pisé; shaped;

regular coursing; no mortar.

1400AD: Stone; large; undressed; rectangular;


1600AD:



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2.1 Moorish, Reconquista and Imperial period town perimeter wall on of earliest

proposed date 12th century (Aguilar Gavilán 1995: 39; Moreno Romero


2.2 The structure is located on the inside pavement of a wide carriageway in the

parish of San Lorenzo north-east of the Mezquita.

2.3 The structure is a maximum of 5.70m high above ground level.


3.1 Foundations and walls are of pisé clay. The foundations repairs are of regular

stone blocks and are visible to 1.20m above ground level. This remaining

section of the wall runs from north-west to south-east for 370 metres and is

generally 1.90 metres wide with external buttresses extruding 4.0 metres.

This Primary Building Technique corresponds with that of the Muralla de los

Mártires, and is therefore recurrent in the later Moorish period walls. It is

fundamentally different from the earlier Moorish period civil constructions in

stone.

3.2 Six construction lifts, including the foundations, are visible (Fig 141e). The

first lift above the foundations is of pisé clay with scaffolding or cladding

mortises and has been repaired in places with modern clay brickwork. The

upper lifts are of pisé clay with scaffolding or cladding mortises to a height

of 5.70m above ground level and have been repaired in places with modern

clay brickwork.

3.3 The pisé and scaffolding mortises are all of the same construction phase.

They appear to be consistent with 12th century dates as they are comparable

in construction to other so-called “austere” fortified walls of the Almohade

regime in Murcia, Niebla (see Barrucand & Bednorz 1992: 146; 158),

Marrakesh, and Rabat (Grabar 1995: 218).

3.4 Internal angles of the buttresses have been repaired in places with

Andalucían limestone in large rectangular blocks in thick mortar and regular

coursing [Fig. 141i]. Although these blocks are smaller than the stones of the



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Calahorra [DB108] and undressed they are consistent with the mortar,

coursing and proportions. Consequently, these are likely to be 13th or 14th-

century repairs. Similar stone block repairs occur along the lower section or

upper foundations of the walls [Fig. 141d]. Pisé components have been

chopped out in straight vertical sections and straight horizontal planes, and

replaced with regular stone masonry coursing. This suggests that an

organised survey and maintenance programme was conducted during the

Reconquista period.


4.1 Remains of the city’s Caliphal expansion around the Axerquía, were fortified

during the Almoravide period (Aguilar Gavilán 1995: 39) following a rather

uneven design that may possibly be attributed to the reuse of existing

structures (Roman aqueduct at northern end) as well as the presence of

natural irregularities (troughs with streams in the eastern sector) (Daroca

Bruño et al. 2003: 181). Built with pisé masonry (rammed earth), the

ramparts have fortified towers that are attached along its perimeter’ they

probably had battlements and according to recent restorations, an outer fosse

(ditch). The stretch of remaining walls has 14 fortified towers and a length of

nearly 400 metres (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 181).



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Fig. 141c: North aspect from the south-

east

Fig. 141e: North aspect from the south-

east

Fig. 141g: Bastion north aspect

Fig. 141d: North aspect from the north-

east

Fig. 141f: North aspect from the north-

east

Fig. 141h: Bastion north-west aspect



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7.0 Bibliography

Aguilar Gavilán, E. 1995: Historia De Córdoba. Madrid: Sìlex. Barrucand, M. & Bednorz, A. 1992: Moorish Architecture in Andalusia. Cologne: Benedikt Taschen Verlag. Daroca Bruño, F., Yllescas Ortiz, M. & De La Fuente Darder, F. (eds.) 2003: Córdoba: Guía De Arquitectura. Córdoba: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectura de Córdoba. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Grabar, O. 1995. "The Architecture of Power: Palaces, Citadels and Fortifications", in G. Michell (ed.) Architecture of the Islamic World: Its History and Social Meaning, pp. 48-79. London: Thames & Hudson. Moreno Romero, L. E. 2003. "La Qurtuba Islámica: La Etapa Tardoislámica: La Córdoba Almohade", in J. Fernández (ed.) Guía Archaeológica De Córdoba, pp. 184-186. Cordoba: Plurabelle.


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1.1

Building Short Name

Puerta del Puente

1.2

Variant Names

Arco del Puente, Algeciras Gate, The Gate of

the Bridge

1.3

Address

Plaza del Triunfo, Córdoba, Spain

1.4



1.5


Designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.).




structure remains intact but has been subject to

modern restoration.

Legibility is High (3). The stonework and

piers are unrendered.

Accessibility is Low (1). The structure was

obscured by restoration works at the time of

survey.

Stratigraphical Complexity is Low (1). On

first inspection, the structure appeared to have

been constructed in one phase.


1.7 Primary Building Technique Stone; very large; dressed; rectangular; regular




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2.1 Imperial period triumphal arched gateway built on the site/ foundations of a

Moorish period gate of earliest known date 12th century (Daroca Bruño et al.

2003: 84). It is currently a tourist attraction.

2.2 The building is located on a plaza on the north bank of the Guadalquivir

between the Puente Romano and the Mezquita.


3.1 Foundations and walls are of Andalusían limestone and ashlar.

3.2 The gate has a square headed linteled opening flanked by two pairs of Doric

columns on a bas that supports an entablature with a cornice. The gate is

crowned with an unfinished semicircular pediment that bears the royal coat

of arms of Filipe II (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 84).

3.3 The Primary Building Technique employed was very, rectangular, ashlar

stone in regular coursing in thin mortar. The gate has a square headed

linteled opening flanked by two pairs of fluted columns on a bas that

supports an entablature with a cornice. The gate is crowned with an

unfinished semicircular pediment that bears the royal coat of arms of Filipe II

[Fig. . The structure uses the proportions and sculptural techniques of the

early Mannerist architectural style of the second half of the 16th century. It

appears to reference the so-called Doric proportions of the Palazzo Te in

Mantua, which was designed by the Mannerist architect Giulio Romano. The

structure has been generally attributed to the architect Hernán Ruiz III



4.1 This gate originally formed part of the city walls, but from the Christian

conquest onwards it became a gateway, known then as the Algeciras Gate,

where the road leading south out of Cordoba started from. In the 14th Century,

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and gave it the grand, monumental style which survives to this day. It is made

up of three sections, with fluted columns at each end, and the centre opening

topped with a lintel and a curved pediment. At the turn of the 20th century, the

surrounding buildings were cleared away and the ground was lowered to

restore it to its original height (Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.).

4.2 The gate was rebuilt by Hernán Ruiz III in 1575, inspired by the works of his

father, Hernán Ruiz II. In 1928 its internal face was built. With the repetition

of the outer design on the inner face, the ensemble acquired the aspect of a

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Fig. 142d: South aspect


Fig. 142h: South aspect



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1.1 Building Short Name Arco de Portillo

1.2 Variant Names The Portillo Arch. The Portillo Gate. The

Corvache Gate. The Arc of San Francisco.

1.3 Address Calle de Portillo, Córdoba, Spain

1.4



1.5


Designations



(1984/1994).




structure is intact up to First Floor level.

Legibility is High (3). The walls are

unrendered.

Accessibility is Medium (2). The building is

partly accessible but in a ruinous state.





1.7 Primary Building Technique 1200AD wall: Stone; very large; dressed;


1400AD arch: Stone; very large; dressed;

rectangular; regular coursing; thin mortar.

1600AD Brick; large; hand-moulded;

rectangular; irregular coursing; thick mortar.



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2.1 Reconquista period arched gateway through the Moorish period Medina wall.

The arch has an earliest proposed date of 13th century (Daroca Bruño et al.


2.2 The building is located on a narrow street running east-west of Calle San

Fernando in the parish of Santa Maria I due east of the Mezquita.

2.3 The main (east) entrance is via a timber double leaf door directly from the

street to a vestibule. The building has two storeys above ground plus roof

space.


3.1 External walls on the ground floor are of Andalusían limestone - the Primary

Building Technique of Stone; very large; dressed; rectangular; regular

coursing; thick mortar. Local clay brickwork is visible on the first floor to

roof height. Foundations and lower stonework are of similar construction and

proportions to the stonework of the Alcázar [DB150] and may have survived

from the Moorish period. The arch is high pointed in a Gothic-Mudéjar style

with no archivolts or decorations but similar in proportion and Primary

Building Technique to the pointed arches of the Puente Romano [DB107]. It

is likely to date to the Reconquista period.

3.2 East external walls at first floor level are rendered with sand and cement

plaster and are painted although in a state of disrepair and brickwork is

visible.

3.3 The building has a vestibule that was probably a guard or gate-keeper’s

chamber, and is entered from the via a double leaf timber door in the east

elevation. There is also a smaller doorway in the westernmost wall of the

vestibule. The ashlar stone segmental arch above the main vestibule door is

in a Renaissance style. It has been inserted into the Moorish period

stonework, which probably dates it and the door below to the late 16th

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3.4 The stonework walls on the ground floor appear to be consistent with 12th

century dates with ashlar stone arches and jambs consistent with Reconquista

period styles.

3.5 The First Floor structure is entirely of clay brickwork and is clearly distinct

from the Primary Building Technique of earlier periods. It begins at a

horizontal break line 5.90 metres above ground level. The bricks are large

and laid in irregular course in thick mortar. There are a number of areas of

infill repairs. The stonework would have to have been removed and made

good in one deliberate action to create a horizontal platform for the

brickwork to stand on. The windows are rectangular and linteled in a post-

medieval or Renaissance style. It seems likely that this First Floor structure is

coeval with the late 16th-century door arch below.



4.1 The gate is an archway in the Calle San Fernando, which was popularly

known as Calle de la Feria (The Street of the Fair) because it was here that

the Hospital del Amparo (Hospital of the Guild of Protection) held their

annual celebrations (Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.). It was opened in the

13th century to connect the old Medina to the walled area known as the

Axerquia (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 148).

4.2 The Arco de Portillo opened in the late fourteenth century, is located on San

Fernando Street, opposite the Church of San Francisco. It joins the parish of

Santa Maria in the Medina and the district of San Nicolas de la Ajerquía.

Its role was to facilitate the transition from the upper town (Medina) with

lower town (Ajerquía). Also called "Arc of San Francisco" or "Portillo's

Corbache" it is a low decorated single door, with a horseshoe arch in a

masonry wall. It was reformed in 1703 widening the bottom. It was also

called gate of the Merchants, by the number of merchants who were posted

nearby.



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Fig. 143c: East aspect


Fig. 143f: Underside of arch from the

west

Fig. 143e: Gate mortise from the south



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Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.: Córdoba: Oficinas De Información Turística, (ed. Ayuntamiento de Córdoba) Ayuntamiento de Córdoba, Córdoba. Daroca Bruño, F., Yllescas Ortiz, M. & De La Fuente Darder, F. (eds.) 2003: Córdoba: Guía De Arquitectura. Córdoba: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectura de Córdoba. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA.




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1.1

Building Short Name

Torre de Belén

1.2 Variant Names Tower of the Nativity

1.3 Address Calle de san Basilio, Córdoba, Spain



Designations



(1984/1994).







coverings.






and Reconquista.


1.7 Primary Building Technique Stone; large upon very large; dressed;

rectangular; regular coursing; thick mortar



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2.1 Moorish or Reconquista period gate tower to town perimeter wall of earliest

proposed date 12th century (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 106). It is currently a

monumental tourist attraction.

2.2 The structure is located on a small paved plaza in the parish of Santa Maria

south-west of the Mezquita.

2.3 The structure stands a maximum of 11.46m high above ground level.



External walls are visible to roof height and unrendered. The earliest

elements are visible in the foundations [Fig. 144g] beneath the horseshoe

arch of Door A [Fig. 144h]. The foundations are of very large undressed

stone blocks in regular bonded coursing. The foundations have been subject

to modern renovation. There are no evident horizontal discontinuity lines

suggesting that the medieval construction was of a single phase (Fig. 144d).

However, an alfiz has been cut into the stonework above Door A that post-

dates the horseshoe arch. Another door, Door B, has been infilled.

3.2 On the First Floor there are three window openings with rounded arches that

may suggest a construction date earlier then the 13th century. The top three

stonework courses of the tower are a modern repair.

3.3 The tower is situated on the outer side of the town’s perimeter wall, which is

of pisé construction. Foundations and walls are of pisé clay. The foundations

are visible to 0.50m above ground level. This remaining section of the wall

extends south-west from the Medina wall for 154 metres and is generally

1.20 and appears that it would have return to the Medina wall. This Primary

Building Technique corresponds with that of the Muralla de los Mártires, and

is therefore recurrent in the later Moorish period walls. It is fundamentally

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4.1 This gate is to the fortified enclosure known as the Castillo de la Juderia, or

Castle of the Jewry. The tower’s masonry may be from the Christian period

but its elbowed gate layout and its horseshoe arches bear a resemblance to

Almohade works (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 106).



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Fig. 144c: South-west aspect from the

west

Fig. 144e: South-west aspect

Fig. 144g: Door A from the west

Fig. 144d: South-west aspect

Fig. 144f: North-west aspect from the

west

Fig. 144h: Door A



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7.0 Bibliography

Daroca Bruño, F., Yllescas Ortiz, M. & De La Fuente Darder, F. (eds.) 2003: Córdoba: Guía De Arquitectura. Córdoba: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectura de Córdoba. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA.




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1.1

Building Short Name

Casa del Carpio

1.2

Variant Names

Casa de los Marqueses del Carpio

Palace of the Marquises of Carpio

1.3

Address

Calle San Fernando,

Córdoba, Spain

1.4



1.5


Designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.).



Preservation is Medium (2). Two storeys of

the medieval structure are partially intact.


partially rendered.

Accessibility is Medium (2). Elements of the

building are obstructed by modern structures.

Stratigraphical Complexity is Low (1). First


one period.



thick mortar.



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2.1 Early Imperial period fortified tower house of earliest proposed date 13th

century (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 143) with modern alterations in the

Mudéjar style. It is currently a derelict building forming part of a private

house complex.

2.2 The building is located on a narrow street running north-south in the parish

of Santa Maria due east of the Mezquita.

2.3 The west entrance is via a timber double leaf door directly from the street. It

has a segmented arch and is in Herrerian proportions. The building has 3

storeys above ground plus roof space. The east entrance is a via double leaf

timber door, which opens into a garden area enclosed by other buildings in

the complex and part of the Medina curtain wall. The curtain wall is fortified

with a gate house.


3.1 Foundations and external walls are of Andalucían limestone and ashlar

construction. External walls are visible to roof height. The roof has been

raised with modern brickwork walls pierced by rounded arch windows. The

earliest walls survive at ground floor level in Andalucían limestone. Upper

storeys are later additions in ashlar (dressed Andalucían limestone). The east

entrance has an ashlar segmental arch and appears consistent with Imperial

period dates.

3.2 At first floor level there is a Herrerian doorway opening onto a balcony. The

doorway is headed with an ashlar segmental arch decorated with heraldic

motifs and is consistent with Imperial period dates. There are 2 small

rectangular windows, one on either side of the balcony. The doorway and

windows have been inserted into the earlier stonework wall.

3.3 At second floor level there is a small window with a rounded arch carved

stone lintel in a Renaissance style. The lintel appears consistent with the

surrounding stonework. Both are likely to date to the Imperial period.



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3.4 The east elevation has been subject to modern remodelling in the Mudéjar

style.

3.5 The roof is of modern construction with ceramic roof tiles.

3.6 The gate house and wall to the east of the house are built upon Andalucían

limestone foundations and walls likely to date from the Moorish and earlier

periods. The superstructure is of ashlar limestone, some of which may

survive from the Islamic periods. The gateway has a rounded arch with

squared headers in a Renaissance style which probably dates from the 16th

century. Above the arch and atop the upper storeys of the gatehouse tower

are stylised Baroque battlements likely to date to the Imperial period.


4.1 The 15th century palace of the Méndez de Sotomayor family was one of the

first grand noble houses in the city, and dates back to 1236, when King

Fernando III granted the family the task of defending and watching over the

city walls after the city of Cordoba was captured (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003:

143). The building incorporated into its structure one of the watchtowers and

part of the 15th century city walls. Inside, there is a courtyard in neo-Arabic

style and the ruins of a Roman house in the cellars (Ayuntamiento de Córdoba

n.d.; Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 143).

4.2 Diego López de Haro y Sotomayor obtained the title of Marques del Carpio in

1559. In 1933 the house was remodelled by the architect Casto Fernández-

Shaw (Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.; Daroca Bruño et al. 2003).



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Fig. 145c: East aspect from the south.

Fig. 145e: East aspect


Fig. 145f: West aspect from the south



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10 metres10 metresSurvey Reference: DB145 Drawing No: 145.1Building Short Name: Casa del CarpioAddress: Calle San Fernando, Córdoba, SpainScale: 1:200 Sheet Size: ISO A4

Ground Floor Plan

Boundary of Estate

Boundary of Estate

Modern Wing

Gatehouse Tower

Arched Gateway

Fortified House

Door A

Door B


First Floor Plan

Fortified House

Modern Wing

Gatehouse Tower


West Elevation East Elevation



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1.1

Building Short Name

Palacio de Orive

1.2

Variant Names

Palacio de los Villalones, Palace of the

Villalones Family, Palace of Orive

1.3

Address

Plaza de Orive-Calle Villalones,

Córdoba, Spain

1.4



1.5


Designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.).



Preservation is Medium (2). One storey of the

medieval structure is intact.


partially rendered.

Accessibility is Medium (3). Many elements

are obscured.



one period.



thick mortar.



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2.1 Imperial period house or palace of earliest suggested date mid-16th century

with Post-Imperial period additions. It is currently a Ministry of Culture

office and art gallery.

2.2 The building is located on its own plaza in the parish of San Andrés north-


2.3 The main (north) entrance is via timber double leaf door (Door A). There are

3 storey above ground plus roof space.


3.1 Foundations and walls are of Andalusían limestone ashlar and rise to a height

of 14.57m at the highest point. Walls are mostly rendered but some areas of

ashlar are exposed.

3.2 The main entrance (Door A) is in the north elevation on the ground floor and

leads into the mid-16th century Imperial period part of the building. Door A

is a double leaf timber door with an ashlar stone lintel decorated in heraldic

motifs. Door A is bordered by pilasters in an Plateresque style. These

features are generally in Herrerian proportions and appear to date to the 16th

century.

3.3 The first floor of the north elevation is pierced by a rectangular window

bordered by pilasters and headed by a pediment both in plateresque style.

These features appear to date to the 16th century.

3.4 The second floor is in large regular sized industrial period brickwork pierced

by unfenestrated rounded arches on north, east and south elevations in a

Mudéjar style. These features are likely to date to the later Imperial period.

3.5 The western end of the north elevation has been subject to modern

remodelling and the building has been extended to the east and south in the

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4.1 This building is an example of Córdoban domestic architecture of the

Renaissance period. It was built by architect Hernán Ruiz II in 1560, and the

most striking feature is the entrance with its decorative lintels and arches

(Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 174). Nowadays, the building houses the Town

Hall's Department of Culture and several rooms are now used as temporary

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the north-west.

Fig. 146d: South aspect viewed from

the south-west.


the south-west

Fig. 146g: North aspect

Fig. 146f: West aspect viewed from the

north-east

Fig. 146h: East aspect viewed from the

north



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10 metres (approx.)Survey Reference: DB146 Drawing No: 146.1Building Short Name: Palacio de Orive Address: No.2 Plaza de Orive, Córdoba, SpainScale: 1:200 Sheet Size: ISO A4

Ground Floor Plan

Door A

Courtyard

Courtyard

10 metresSurvey Reference: DB146 Drawing No: 146.2Building Short Name: Palacio de Orive Address: No.2 Plaza de Orive, Córdoba, SpainScale: 1:200 Sheet Size: ISO A4

North Elevation

Door A



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1.1

Building Short Name

Hospital de San Sebastián

1.2

Variant Names

Palace of Congresses and Exhibitions,

Hospital of San Sebastián

1.3

Address

Calle Torrijos, Córdoba, Spain

1.4



1.5


Designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.).



Preservation is High (3). Many of the Early

Imperial elements survive.

Legibility is Low (1). The walls are mainly

rendered and plastered.

Accessibility is Medium (2). The building is

generally accessible but many elements are

obscured by modern features.


The building spanned the Imperial period but

retained elements of the Moorish period.



thin mortar.



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2.1 Imperial period hospital of earliest known date early 16th century (Daroca

Bruño et al. 2003: 100). It is currently a gallery and exhibition centre.

2.2 The building is located opposite the south-west façade of the Mezquita in the

parish of Santa Maria.

2.3 There are two entrances. The entrance at the southern end of the north-east

façade is via a high double leaf timber door (Door A) into an entrance

vestibule. The entrance at the northern end of the north-east façade is via a

high timber double leaf door (Door B) into Room B, which was formerly

used as an infirmary (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 100).



approximately 15m. Walls are partially unrendered with some areas exposed.

3.2 Door A is headed by a modern limestone lintel over stone jambs with

brickwork repairs. It leads to rectangular entrance Vestibule (Room A

10.48m x 5.99m). A further doorway (Door C) is headed by a rounded arch

in ashlar, which leads on to the Courtyard.

3.3 Door B is headed by a limestone trefoil arch over limestone jambs that

pierces the massive roof height limestone portal built by to Hernán I in 1514

in a Humanist Gothic style (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 100). Door B leads on

to a rectangular room (Room B).

3.4 The central Courtyard includes Mudéjar style Galleries with rounded arches

on the ground floor and sectioned arches on the upper floor all in brickwork

on limestone plinths. These has been heavily restored in the 20th century.

3.5 Along the southern Gallery, Door D has a rounded arch and opens on to the

remaining rampart wall of the former Alcázar (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003:

100).

3.6 Off the north Gallery lies the Chapel with a single nave covered by 2 groined

vaults.




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4.1 The present-day Palacio de Congresos y Exposiciones , formerly the Hospital

of San Sebastian, was built on top of the ruins of the Alcázar between 1513

and 1516. The building is arranged around Mudéjar-style cloisters (Daroca

Bruño et al. 2003: 100). It has a Chapel in flamboyant Gothic style, with ornate

Plateresque decorative work, which was built by Hernán Ruiz I, who also built

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north.

Fig. 147e: East entrance


south.

Fig. 147f: East entrance



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Fig. 147g: Courtyard from the east Fig. 147h: Courtyard from the north

Fig. 147i: Courtyard from the north-west Fig. 147j: Courtyard from the south-east

Fig. 147k: Door D from the north-west



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Survey Reference:DB147 Drawing No:147.1Building Short Name: Hospital San SebastiánAddress: Calle Torrijos, Córdoba, SpainScale: <1:500> Sheet Size: ISO A4

20 metres

Ground Floor Plan

Courtyard

Galleries

Galleries

RoomA

Hall

Chapel

Door A

Door B

First Floor Plan

Courtyard

Galleries

Galleries

Chapel

Remains of Alcázar Wall

Door C

Door D Door E

Remains of Alcázar Wall

Door F



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1.1

Building Short Name

Casa de las Campañas

1.2

Variant Names

The House of the Bells

1.3

Address

Calle Siete Revueltas, Córdoba, Spain

1.4



1.5


Designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.).



Preservation is Low (1). Few Imperial period

elements survive.

Legibility is Low (1). Walls are mostly

plastered and rendered.

Accessibility is Medium (2). The Medieval

and Imperial elements are partially obscured

by modern features.


building spanned only the Imperial period.






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2.1 Imperial period residential courtyard house of earliest proposed date 15th

century (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 157). It is currently a private apartment

block.

2.2 The building is located on a small plaza in the parish of Santiago due east of

the Mezquita.

2.3 There are 2 entrances; one to the south via a timber double leaf door directly

from the plaza to an entrance vestibule, and one to the east into the courtyard.

The building has two storeys above ground plus roof space.


3.1 Perimeter walls are of local clay brickwork construction.

3.2 Perimeter walls are rendered with sand and cement plaster and are painted.

3.3 The building is entered from the via a double leaf timber front door (Door A)

in the south elevation. The doorway leads through a vestibule, which has

been subject to modern remodelling, and then into a large courtyard. The

main building is on the east side of the courtyard.

3.4 The external walls of the main building are of limestone construction. Marble

columns (Columns A & B), possibly of early medieval date, support one of a

series of arched doorways (Arch A) in the east external wall (Wall A). These

arches have been subject to modern remodelling.

3.5 A secondary external wall (Wall B) has a rounded arched doorway (Arch B)

with elaborately foliated plasterwork decoration in the 15th century Nazarid

Mudéjar style. 2 further rounded arch doorways of modern construction open

in this wall. Walls on the ground floor appear to be consistent with 15th

century dates.

3.6 The ground and first floors have been subject to considerable modern

remodelling to create apartment blocks. No dating evidence is visible.





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4.1 Casa de la Campañas features the remains of an ancestral home belonging to

the Duke of Alba, later converted into a block of flats. The house was

sometime used as a bell foundry, hence its name. The remaining walls

comprise a gallery with arches decorated with carved apricots in foliated

Nazarite plasterwork (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 157). The gallery has carved

timber ceiling with hexagon and octagon motifs brightly painted roofed by 2

transerves arches with scalloped soffits in the Almohade tradition. The rest of

the building is probably 16th century and is hidden behind modern plaster and

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Fig. 148c: South aspect

Fig. 148e: South aspect from the east

Fig. 148g: Walls A & B from the east


Fig. 148f: South door from inside

Fig. 148h: Courtyard from the east



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7.0 Bibliography

Daroca Bruño, F., Yllescas Ortiz, M. & De La Fuente Darder, F. (eds.) 2003: Córdoba: Guía De Arquitectura. Córdoba: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectura de Córdoba. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Ministerio de Cultura n.d.: Bien De Interés Cultural: La Base De Datos De Bienes Inmuebles, http://www.mcu.es/bienes/cargarFiltroBienesInmuebles.do?layout=bienesInmuebles&cache=init&language=es. Romeo, A. & Gómez, S. 2005: Cordobapedia, (eds. A. Romeo & S. Gómez) http://wikanda.cordobapedia.es/, Cordoba.





10 metres (approx.)Survey Reference: DB148 Drawing No:148.1Building Short Name: Casa delas CampañasAddress: Calle Siete Revueltas, Córdoba, SpainScale: NTS Sheet Size: ISO A4

Door A

Courtyard

Arch A

Column A

Column B

Wall A

Wall B

Arch B

10 metres (approx.)Survey Reference: DB148 Drawing No:148.2Building Short Name: Casa delas CampañasAddress: Calle Siete Revueltas, Córdoba, SpainScale: NTS Sheet Size: ISO A4

First Floor Plan

East Elevation



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1.1

Building Short Name

Palacio de los Aguayo

1.2

Variant Names

Palace of the Aguayo Family

1.3

Address

Plaza de los Aguayo, Córdoba, Spain

1.4



1.5


Designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.).



Preservation is Low (1). Very few Early

Imperial elements survive.

Legibility is Low (1). The walls are rendered

and plastered.

Accessibility is Low (1). Ealry Imperial

elements are obscured by Modern ones.





1.7 Primary Building Technique Undetermined.



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2.1 Imperial period house or palace of earliest known date early 16th century

(Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.). The house was the ancestral home of the

Aguayo family but is currently used as a school.

2.2 The building is located on its own plaza in the parish of San Pedro to the


2.3 The sole (south) entrance is via timber double leaf door directly from the

street. The building has two storeys above ground plus roof space.


3.1 Foundations and walls are of Andalusían limestone. Walls are rendered in

sand and cement and painted.

3.2 The portal to the entrance door of the South Elevation [Fig. 149c] is in

Herrerian proportions of the 16th century. It is decorated with medallions of

laurel leaves and the coat of arms of the Aguayo family (Ayuntamiento de

Córdoba n.d.). The South Elevation door and windows look out onto a small

plaza opposite the north elevation of the Iglesia de San Pedro [DB132]. The

South Elevation door and windows look out onto a small plaza opposite the

north elevation of the Iglesia de San Pedro [DB132]. The South Wing backs

on to a Courtyard in the centre of the Modern period structures.

3.3 The roof is of modern clay tiles.


4.1 The features inside are the magnificent black and red marble staircase and a

large garden. It is now School of the Familia Sagrada, known popularly as the

Las Francesas (the French Women) (Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.).



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Fig. 149c: South aspect

Fig. 149d: South aspect and Plaza

Fig. 2.44e: South entrance



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Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.: Córdoba: Oficinas De Información Turística, (ed. Ayuntamiento de Córdoba) http://www.turismodecordoba.org/index2.cfm. Accessed 29th Oct 2010., Córdoba. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Ministerio de Cultura n.d.: Bien De Interés Cultural: La Base De Datos De Bienes Inmuebles, http://www.mcu.es/bienes/cargarFiltroBienesInmuebles.do?layout=bienesInmuebles&cache=init&language=es.

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1.1

Building Short Name

Palacio Episcopal

1.2 Variant Names Episcopal Palace

1.3 Address Calle Torrijos, Córdoba, Spain


1.5


Designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.).



Preservation is Low (1). Many of the Early

Imperial period walls survive but the palace

was largely restructured after a fire in the 18th

century.

Legibility is Medium (2). Walls are mainly

unrendered.

Accessibility is Medium (2). Many of the

Early Imperial elements are obscured my

Modern ones and the complex is too large to

be fully surveyed within the resources of this

thesis.


First inspection indicated that the complex

spanned the Imperial period but retained some

Moorish period elements.






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2.1 Imperial period Episcopal palace incorporating the remains of the Moorish

period Alcázar ramparts and towers (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 101). It is


2.2 The building is located opposite the south-western façade of the Mezquita.

2.3 The main (east) entrance is via timber double leaf door directly from the

street.



approximately 18m to the eaves. Towers rise approximately 25m above

ground level and are characteristic of the transition between Herrerian and

Renaissance styles in the 16th century. Walls are unrendered and ashlars are

visible to roof height.

3.2 The building is arranged around a large 3 floor courtyard. There is a large

black marble staircase covered with an ovoid vault with polychromatic

plasterwork, rises from its western gallery (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 101).

3.3 Next to the staircase is the chapel, with its single nave covered by a groined

barrel vault, the transept with a vault set on squinches and a flat sanctuary.

To the south, an enormous courtyard is closed off to the street by a narrow

corridor, possibly a work of 18th-century architect Ventura Rodriguez





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4.1 The Bishop's Palace was built on the site of the Alcázar. The ramparts with

their towers were incorporated into the palace’s Renaissance façade (Daroca

Bruño et al. 2003: 101). The first major reform of the palace was in the 15th

century, with Gothic-style pointed and ogee arches (Ayuntamiento de Córdoba

n.d.). The main doorway was erected in the 17th century. The Renaissance

construction suffered a great fire in 1745 and its main spaces were rebuilt

afterwards.(Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 101).



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south.

Fig. 150e: South aspect viewed from the east.

Fig. 150g: East aspect

Fig. 150d: East aspect viewed from the east.


Fig. 150h: Section of the Alcázar east wall remaining in the Palacio Episcopal (Léon Muños et al. 2003: 147).



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Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.: Córdoba: Oficinas De Información Turística, (ed. Ayuntamiento de Córdoba) http://www.turismodecordoba.org/index2.cfm. Accessed 29th Oct 2010., Córdoba. Daroca Bruño, F., Yllescas Ortiz, M. & De La Fuente Darder, F. (eds.) 2003: Córdoba: Guía De Arquitectura. Córdoba: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectura de Córdoba. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Léon Muños, A., Monterroso Checa, A. & Garriguet Mata, J.-A. 2003. "La Qurtuba Islámica: El Alcázar Andalusí", in J. Fernández (ed.) Guía Archaeológica De Córdoba, pp. 144-147. Córdoba: Plurabelle. Ministerio de Cultura n.d.: Bien De Interés Cultural: La Base De Datos De Bienes Inmuebles, http://www.mcu.es/bienes/cargarFiltroBienesInmuebles.do?layout=bienesInmuebles&cache=init&language=es.

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1.1

Building Short Name

Convento de Santa Isabel de los Ángeles

1.2 Variant Names Convent of Santa Isabel de los Ángeles

Hermitage of the Visitación de la Virgen

1.3 Address Calle De Santa Isabel, Córdoba, Spain



Designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.).






Legibility is Low (1). Its walls are almost

entirely covered in render and plaster.

Accessibility is Low (1). The structure is not




spanned the Imperial period.


1.7 Primary Building Technique Convent walls: Stone; large upon very large.

Church walls: Stone; large upon very large;


mortar.



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2.1 Reconquista and Imperial period convent of the Order of Santa Clara of

earliest proposed date early 14th century (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 186) on

the site of a former mosque (Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.). It is currently a

convent.

2.2 The building is located on the east side of a wide plaza (Calle del Conde de

Priego) opposite the Iglesia de Santa Marina [DB131] in the parish of Santa

Marina north-east of the Mezquita.

2.3 The (south-east) entrance is via timber double leaf door directly from the

street (Calle de Santa Isabel). The building has two storeys above ground and

a private church within its compound.


3.1 Foundations and perimeter walls are of Andalusían limestone. Perimeter

walls are rendered. The walls are pierced by small squared windows above

head height along the Ground Floor and also along the First Floor. In the

south-west wall along the plaza, First Floor and Ground Floor windows

correspond on the same vertical plane suggesting a cellular structure to the

building.

3.2 The south-east entrance door has carved stone pilasters and a carved stone

broken pediment with Imperial period heraldic motifs in a Baroque style.

There is a larger entrance door in the adjacent wall to the north-east that is

large enough to admit carriages. It also bears pilasters, in ashlar stonework,

topped by a carved stone broken pediment with Imperial period heraldic

motifs in a Baroque style. Both doorways open on to a large courtyard,

which is galleried with rounded arches. A further doorway leads to the

interior of the complex. It also bears pilasters, in ashlar stonework, topped by

a carved stone broken pediment with Imperial period heraldic motifs in a

Baroque style.

3.3 The Primary Building Technique of the early Imperial period was very large,

dressed, rectangular limestone work in regular coursing in thick mortar

visible in exposed areas of the perimeter walls and church [Fig. 152e]. The



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church retains a doorway in a late 16th-century Mannerist style with a broken

pediment and Christian iconography in bas relief. The complex retains a

courtyard with brickwork walls, columns and galleries with low-pointed

Mudéjar arches.


4.1 This convent was founded at the end of the 15th century by Doña Marina de

Villaseca. The inside of the convent is organised around a cloister that consists

of reused materials (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 186).

4.2 A late 17th century doorway leads to the entrance courtyard with two galleries

that open onto the convent quarters. The doorway has a 17th century façade

featuring the coat of arms of the Villaseca family (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003:

186).

4.3 In the 16th-century, Don Luis Gómez de Figueroa built the church to

accommodate the vault of the Villaseca family. The church’s Mannerist

doorway dates to 1576. The inside has a rectangular floor plan with a barrel

vault of 1833. In the sanctuary is the main chapel with Mannerist influences

and a flat vault that was begun by Juan de Ochoa in 1583 and completed by

Sebastián Vidal and Bernabé Gómez del Rio in 1660. A groin vault dating

from the 16th century covers the choir (Daroca Bruño et al. 2003: 186).



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Fig 152c: South-east entrance viewed

from the south-east.

Fig 152e: North-east aspect viewed

from the north.

Fig 152d: North-east aspect viewed

from the north-east.

Fig 152f: North aspect viewed from the

north

Fig 152g: North aspect viewed from

the south-west.



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1.1

Building Short Name

Casa Mudéjar

1.2

Variant Names

Mudéjar House

1.3

Address

Calle Samuel De Los Santos, Córdoba, Spain

1.4



1.5


Designations



(1984/1994).



Cultura n.d.).



Preservation is Low (2). The complex has

been largely reconstructed.

Legibility is Low (1). Walls are mostly

rendered.

Accessibility is Medium (2). Some Early

Imperial period elements are visible.


complex spanned the Imperial period with

possible surviving 14th-century elements.






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2.1 Imperial period house of earliest proposed date late 14th century with

additions in the 15th, 16th and 19th centuries. It is currently a museum.

2.2 The building is located in the parish of Santa Maria due north of the

Mezquita.

2.3 The main (south-west) entrance is via timber double leaf door through a

segmented arch.


3.1 Foundations and walls are of Andalucían limestone construction. Walls are

partially rendered but some areas are exposed.

3.2 The complex has been substantially restored and reconstructed in the 21st

century. It is a conglomeration of several houses dating from the 14th to the

16th century.

3.3 The complex is arranged around four courtyards with galleries formed by

brickwork rounded arches standing on stonework columns that are decorated

in Imperial period Mudéjar plasterwork.

3.4 The south-west entrance has a portal in very large rectangular stonework in

thin mortar with a segmented arch in Herrerian proportions of the 16th

century.


4.1 This Example of late medieval manor house with Mudejar influences in its

organization and decoration. It was the first headquarters of the

Archaeological Museum. Located at the bottom of the street named after the

archaeologist Samuel de los Santos, the facade is occupied entirely by a cover

that opens to a covered walkway in turn. The main courtyard contains a

fountain and central greenery, highlighting the front end wall which a

colonnade of Moorish influence which is accessed by a room covered by a

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4.2 Results from the addition of seven different houses and four courtyards,

residential cluster linked by galleries, passages and stairways. The building

could date to the fourteenth century, although most of the buildings belong to

the 15th and 16th centuries. The plot has an area of 950 m2. The house, with

two floors, is organized around four courtyards. (Ayuntamiento de Córdoba

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Fig. 157c: South-west aspect

Fig. 157e: South-west entrance

Fig. 157d: South-west aspect.



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Fig. 157f Courtyard Areas



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7.0 Bibliography

Ayuntamiento de Córdoba n.d.: Rehabilitación Y Adaptación De La Casa Mudéjar Para Casa Árabe E Ieam, http://www.gmucordoba.es/documentos/Gerencia_de_Urbanismo/Presentacion/Pagina_Principal/POSTER_CONGRESO_CASA_MUDEJAR.pdf Accessed 31-10-10. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Ministerio de Cultura n.d.: Bien De Interés Cultural: La Base De Datos De Bienes Inmuebles, http://www.mcu.es/bienes/cargarFiltroBienesInmuebles.do?layout=bienesInmuebles&cache=init&language=es. Oficinas de Información Turistica de Cordoba n.d.: Casa Mudéjar <http://www.turismodecordoba.org/index2.cfm?codigo=0715> Accessed 30-10-10.

http://www.gmucordoba.es/documentos/Gerencia_de_Urbanismo/Presentacion/Pagina_Principal/POSTER_CONGRESO_CASA_MUDEJAR.pdf

http://www.gmucordoba.es/documentos/Gerencia_de_Urbanismo/Presentacion/Pagina_Principal/POSTER_CONGRESO_CASA_MUDEJAR.pdf




http://www.turismodecordoba.org/index2.cfm?codigo=0715



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1.1

Building Short Name

Muralla de los Mártires

1.2 Variant Names Old Town Walls on the Ronda de los Mártires

1.3 Address Ronda de los Mártires, Córdoba, Spain



Designations



(1984/1994).






reconstruction.


coverings.







1.7 Primary Building Technique 1200AD: Mud brick; large; pisé; shaped;

regular coursing; no mortar.

1400AD: Stone; large; undressed; rectangular;




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2.1 Moorish, Reconquista and Imperial period town perimeter wall on of earliest

proposed date 12th century (Moreno Romero 2003: 184). It is currently a

monumental ruin and tourist attraction.

2.2 The structure is located on the inside pavement of a wide carriageway corner

and runs north-south in the parish of Santiago due east of the Mezquita.

2.3 The structure is 4.97m high above ground level at Section A.


3.1 Foundations and walls are of pisé clay. This remaining section of the wall

runs from north to south for 33.77 metres and is generally 1.24 metres, which

is considerably narrower than the Muralla del Marrubial (1.90 metres).

3.2 Six construction lifts, including the foundations, are visible (Fig. 158d). The

first lift above the foundations is of pisé clay with scaffolding or cladding

mortises and has been repaired in places with large stonework. The upper

lifts are of pisé clay with scaffolding or cladding mortises to a height of

4.97m above ground level and have been repaired in places with clay

brickwork and small stonework.

3.3 The pisé and scaffolding mortises are all of the same construction phase.

They appear to be consistent with 12th century dates as they are comparable

in construction to the Muralla del Marrubial and other so-called “austere”

fortified walls of the Almohade regime in Murcia, Niebla (see Barrucand &

Bednorz 1992: 146; 158), Marrakesh, and Rabat (Grabar 1995: 218).

3.4 Foundations repairs are of Andalucían limestone construction. The

foundations are of large, regular, undressed stone blocks in thick mortar and

are visible to 0.55m above ground level [Fig. 158f]. Although these blocks

are slightly smaller than the Reconquista period stones of the Muralla del

Marrubial [DB141] they are consistent with the mortar, coursing and

proportions. Consequently, these are likely to be 13th or 14th-century repairs.

This suggests that an organised survey and maintenance programme was

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3.5 Three construction lift repairs are visible at Section A. The first is of small

regular stone blocks to a height of 2.18m above ground level and has been

further repaired with modern clay brickwork. The second repair lift is of

rubble stonework to a height of 4.36m above ground level and has been

further repaired with modern clay brickwork. The thirds repair lift is founded

on two courses of clay bricks with further modern repairs, and is of rubble

stonework construction to a height of 4.97m above ground level.

3.6 There is a double leaf timber front door towards the northernmost end of the

structure. The rear arch above the doorway and the brickwork jambs are

likely to be modern alterations. The brick infilled four-centred arch above

may have originated in the Imperial period.


4.1 None.



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Fig. 158e: South aspect from the west

Fig. 158g: South aspect


Fig. 158f: East aspect from the south

Fig. 158h: Door in east aspect



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Drawing No. 158.1

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7.0 Bibliography

Barrucand, M. & Bednorz, A. 1992: Moorish Architecture in Andalusia. Cologne: Benedikt Taschen Verlag. Google Inc. n.d.: Google Earth 6 Web Catalogue http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html, Mountain View, CA. Grabar, O. 1995. "The Architecture of Power: Palaces, Citadels and Fortifications", in G. Michell (ed.) Architecture of the Islamic World: Its History and Social Meaning, pp. 48-79. London: Thames & Hudson. Moreno Romero, L. E. 2003. "La Qurtuba Islámica: La Etapa Tardoislámica: La Córdoba Almohade", in J. Fernández (ed.) Guía Archaeológica De Córdoba, pp. 184-186. Cordoba: Plurabelle.


10 metres10 metresSurvey Reference:DB158 Drawing No:158.1Building Short Name: Murralla delos MartiresAddress: Ronda de los Martires, Córdoba, SpainScale: 1:200 Sheet Size: ISO A4

Plan

East Elevation Section A-A

A

A

Drawing Conventions==Direction of Geographical North

Stonework Wall

Brickwork Wall

Brickwork Infill

Doorway Openings in Walls

Window Openings in Walls

Plans

Steps & Staircases

Mosaic Floor Tiles

Wells

Timber Walkways

Elevations

Stonework Wall in Section

Brickwork Wall in Section

Roof TilesCircular Marble Columns

Marble ColumnsDoor or Gate Mortise

Windows

Doors

Grd1st2nd

Ground or Floor Level

Arches

Wall Socket (Lanterns)

Chimneys

Tiled Floor

Stone Step

Void

Plans

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