Cmara Santa

The Holy chamber of Oviedo is a Roman Catholic pre-Romanesque church in Oviedo, Spain, built subsequent to pre-romanesque Tower of San Miguel of the town's cathedral. Nowadays, the church occupies the angle between the south arm of the cathedral transept and a side of the cloister. It changed into constructed all through the 9^th century as a palace chapel for King Alfonso II of Asturias and the church of San Salvador of Oviedo. Apart from acting as royal chapel, the Holy Chamber turned into built to house the jewels and relics of the cathedral of San Salvador in Oviedo, a feature it keeps to have 1200 years later.

Some of those jewels were donated by using the Kings Alfonso II and Alfonso III, and represent excellent gold artifacts of Asturian Pre-Romanesque, introduced from Toledo after the autumn of the Visigothic kingdom. The Camara Santa, as its historic parts display, includes a rectangular japanese sanctuary, attached to a square cella. The sanctuary has a low barrel vault. Its frontal arch is carried by way of two marble columns of Roman beginning. A pair of comparable columns enhance the east window, which internally has an arch, but externally a rectangular head with a impolite brick relieving arch, similar to the east window of the crypt below.