Orihuela Cathedral

Orihuela Cathedral is the primary Roman Catholic church of Orihuela, Valencian Community, southern Spain. It become constructed above a pre-gift Muslim mosque as a easy parish church, and changed into later converted into foremost church via order of King Alfonso X of Castile in 1281. In 1413, pope Benedict XIII elevated it to the rank of collegiate, until it emerge as a cathedral in 1510. Construction modified into started within the late 13^th century in Valencian Gothic fashion, with a Latin bypass plan which encompass a nave and aisles, an ambulatory and chapels within buttresses.

The crossing, the overdue-Gothic exquisite chapel, and the ambulatory are 15^th century-early, 16^th century additions, together with the elimination of pillars of the nave to advantage a taller vault at the crossing, after a format by way of Pere Compte. The interior receives little mild due to the small length of the house windows. There are three entrances: the Puerta de las Cadenas Portal of the Chains, 14th century is in Islamic style, the Puerta de Loreto mid-15th century is Gothic, and Gate of the Annunciation at the north, built in 1588 with the useful resource of Juan Ingles, in Renaissance-fashion triumphal arch-form. Other Renaissance factors encompass the stalls and the grills of the choir, and the cloister at the beginning from 1377, however rebuilt until 1560. The oldest issue is the bell tower, which dates from late 12th-mid 14th centuries. It has four flooring covered by using groin vaults.