Santa Maria de Cap d’Aran de Tredòs
Santa Maria de Cap d’Aran de Tredòs
The building has a basilica plan with three naves with a barrel vault and three apses. It suffered collapses on the roof, which caused the side naves, which in principle were barrel-vaulted, to become quarter-spherical.
Its bell tower was set apart from the rest of the religious building; It only preserves the beginning of the Romanesque period, the rest belongs to later times.
The church has a special characteristic and it is the presence of a crypt in the lower part of the altar, its roof is a barrel vault in the first space and a quarter sphere in the second, both are separated by an arch of half point
On the outside, in the apses you can see the Lombard architecture of the time, with blind arches and lesenas. Its two portals show a similar carved chrismon in both, the main door is built with three archivolts that rest on columns with capitals, one of them decorated with two small heads, and another just like the one found in the church of Guils.
His wall paintings were discovered in the 1930s, torn up, and taken to The Cloisters in New York. They are dated between the 11th and 12th centuries and attributed to the circle of the Master of Pedret.
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