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 - Charles Rudy

See dedicated to Mother and Child.
First known bishop, Protogenes, in VIth century.
During Arab invasion no mention is made of see.
First bishop after Reconquest, Bernardo (1195).
Fourth bishop an Englishman, Jocelyn.
Date of erection of the cathedral unknown.
Probably XIIth or XIIIth century Romanesque-Gothic edifice.
Ambulatory added in XVIth century.
Length of building, 313 feet; width, 112 feet.
Height of nave, 68 feet; of aisles, 63 feet.
Circumference of central pillar, 50 feet.
Chief attractions: Western front, sacristy, rose window in southern transept arm.

See dedicated to the Virgin Mother and her Apparition to San Ildefonso.
Bishopric erected prior to 513 A. D.
One of first bishops is San Ildefonso.
During Arab domination see remains vacant.
First archbishop, Don Bernardo (1085).
Primate cathedral of all the Spains since XVth century.
First stone of present building laid in 1227.
Church completed in 1493.[{380}]
Additions, repairs, etc., dating from XVIth-XVIIIth century.
Length, 404 feet; width, 204 feet; height of tower, 298 feet.
Height of nave, 98 feet.
Height of principal door, 20 feet; width, 7 feet.
Diameter of rose window in western front, 30 feet.
Chief attractions: The ensemble, decorative and industrial accessories, chapter-room, sacristy, paintings, bell-tower, etc. (The richest cathedral in Spain.)

Collegiate Church dedicated to St. Mary.
Existence of bishopric cannot be proven, though believed to have been erected during first decade of Reconquest in Xth century.
Is definitely made a suffragan of Zamora in XVIth century.
Cathedral—or collegiate—erected end of XIIth or beginning of XIIIth century.
Castilian Romanesque building.
Chief attractions: Military aspect of building, height of walls, massive cimborio.