[185] Cean Bermudez, Arq. de España, i. p. 214.
[186] Here lies Rodrigo Gil de Hontañon, Master of the Works of this Holy Church. He died the 31st of May, 1577. He set the first stone, which the Bishop D. Diego de Ribera laid on the 8th of June, 1525.
[188] See ground-plan, [Plate VIII.]
[189] Colmenares (Historia de la insigne Ciudad de Segovia; Segovia. 1637) gives the date of the first foundation 1447, but the buildings do not seem to have been begun before 1474, and the vaulting was finished in 1485.—Cean Bermudez, Arq. de España, i. p. 111.
[190] These particulars are all given in Cean Bermudez, Arq. de España, i. pp. 111, 120, 146.
[191] See [Plate VIII.]
[192] See ground-plan, [Plate VIII.]
[193] San Millan is said to have been founded in A.D. 923, and similar early dates are given for Sta. Columba and San Esteban: none of them, I believe, retain any features of so great an antiquity.
[194] I did not see the church of San Lorenzo. It has three eastern apses, and an arcaded cloister on the western and southern sides, some of the arches being round and some pointed. The detail is all of the same kind as in other examples here, with much delicate imitation of natural foliage.—See Illustration in Monos. Arqos. de España.