The Cathedrals of Northern Spain / Their History and Their Architecture; Together with Much of Interest Concerning the Bishops, Rulers and Other Personages Identified with Them

by Charles Rudy

CORIA

• See dedicated to Santa Maria.
• Date of erection, 338.
• First known bishop, Laquinto, in 589.
• During Moorish domination the bishopric entirely destroyed.
• See reëstablished toward beginning XIIIth century.
• Cathedral church begun in 1120.
• Terminated in XVIth century.
• Is an unimportant village church rather than a cathedral.
• One aisle, 150 feet long, 52 feet wide, 84 feet high.
• Chief attractions: Paseo, or cloister walk; in lady-chapel, sepulchre of XVIth century.