#transept

Saint Mary's Cathedral, Lugo (No. 4)

The cathedral has a Latin cross plan with three naves, transept and ambulatory with five apsidal chapels.

The main nave is covered with a pointed barrel vault and the sides with a barrel and edge vault, with ribs in the transept, and a barrel vault with lunettes in the clerestory. The clerestory windows are of acute arch or pointed to the interior and exterior.

To the left of the entrance to the cathedral is the Old Tower, Gothic, topped by a body of Renaissance bells, the work of Gaspar de Arce in 1571.

In the Plaza de Santa María, at the head of the cathedral, there is a cruise of unknown date, in the section that goes between the bell tower and the chapel of the Virgen de los Ojos Grandes.

The vertical walls and vault of the nave of the transept are Romanesque, as are most of the main nave, lateral and clerestory, whose vaults were remade in the eighteenth century.

The first body of the main chapel and the ambulatory with its attached apsidal chapels (1320-1360), except for the central one, belong to the Gothic, as well as the old ones of Santo Domingo de los Reyes (1370) and San Froilán (1480), which currently form the call of the Pilar, in addition to the first body of the bell tower (around 1570 or before) and the narthex or north portico (1510-1530), Not so the cover.

The second body of the main chapel and the current chapel of San Froilán are Renaissance; to the Baroque belong the sacristy (1678), the chapter house and its surroundings (1683), the cloister (1714) and the central chapel of the ambulatory, called the Ojos Grandes (1726).

The main façade, on the other hand, corresponds to a project in neoclassicist style of the late eighteenth century, whose author was Julián Sánchez Bort. This project moves in the orbit of what Ventura Rodríguez proposed for the façade of the cathedral of Pamplona, which in turn includes the turreted church scheme proposed by Serlio. The completion of the façade took place in the late nineteenth century, with the finishing of the two towers. These correspond to a design by Nemesio Cobreros inspired by the original project of Sánchez Bort.

The interior of the Cathédrale Notre-Dame in Lausanne, Switzerland.