Santo Domingo Church and Cloister
History
Santo Domingo church (also known as Santo
Domingo Convent) is a church and a convent which was built to outside of the
city wall. In this church was celebrated the first worship after the Jerez
conquest.
The church size, its architectonic quality, its
cloister and its sacristy did that was one of the biggest monastic foundations
of Andalusia. This convent had more than 150 friars and in its main chapel
ordered to be buried the Gran Canaria conqueror, Pedro de Vera in the 16th
century.
Also, in its interior has the Virgen de
Consolation sculpture (Virgin of the consolation), which had big devotion, even
outside the city.
The Santo Domingo cloister has its origin in
the land loan to the congregation by the Alfonso X King. This congregation was
extended the facilities and in 1436 was begun the construction of the cloister
which was finished in 1595. With the Mendizabal confiscation, the congregation
was expelled and the land was sold.
Salvador Díez y Pérez de Muñoz bought the
cloister in 1908 and in 1983 became in City Hall property.
The church and the cloister are one of the most
important Andalusia heritages because of in these buildings there are a mix of
styles, Moorish, gothic and renaissance.
Exterior description
The church has T form which the horizontal arm
is the main nave, having its main facade in Larga Street. The other arm is
called "Del Rosario" and has its facade to Alameda Cristina.
The "Del Rosario" facade is
classicist style and is composed by two big Corinthian columns which flank to
the entry arch.
The door which is in the Plaza Aladro, was
built in 1696 by Fray Diego Díaz. It is a big size facade composed by an arch
and pilasters.
Interior description
The main nave is gothic style but also has Moorish
style decorations.
The first chapel in the gospel side of the main
nave is the "Dulce Nombre de Jesús" chapel which is 17th century and
was built by Antón Martín Calafate.
In the centre of the main nave, in the access
to the Del Rosario nave, we find with Consolación chapel which is rectangular
plant and covered by ribbing vault. It was built in 1537 by Jácome Adorno,
noble of the city.
The sacristy is located behind the presbytery
and was built by Antón Martín Calafate in 1629. It has a rectangular plant and
has three sections, two ends and the central. The two ends are covered by
barrel vault and the central by a reticulated vault. We have to highlight the
baroque furniture.
The chapter
room is also built by Antón Martín Calafate in 1628. It is a rectangular plant
and is covered by a barrel vault. We have to highlight the door that
communicates with the sacristy, which has pilasters and anthropomorphic
capitals.
The
cloister has the classical square structure with a central garden that
distributes the rooms. It is built in two floor and the corridors are covered
by simple ribbed vault. The second floor is simpler than the ground floor.
You can download in
the next link, all the information of the Cloister that the Jerez city hall
offers to the tourist in Spanish, English, French and German.
Visit
Church:
Worship schedules: Monday to Saturday, 9:30,
12:00 and 20:00. Sunday, 9:00, 12:00, 13:00 and 20:00
Visits schedules: Monday to Friday from 10:00
to 11:45
Cloister:
Tuesday to Friday from 10:00 to 14:00 and 17:00
to 20:00
Saturday, Sunday and Feasts days from 10:00 to
14:30.
Contact and location
Church:
Address:
Alameda Cristina
Telephone:
956341037
Cloister:
Address:
Alameda Cristina
Telephone:
956336965 - 956149732
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