Restoration of the Magistral Cathedral of Alcalá de Henares
Located in the Plaza de los Santos Niño
The Magistral Cathedral of Alcalá de Henares is located in the Plaza de los Santos Niño and has a marked Elizabethan Gothic style. In 1477, thanks to the bull of Pope Sixtus IV, the temple of San Justo was elevated to a collegiate church and in 1497, with the push of Cardinal Cisneros, it was demolished to build a new construction between 1497 and 1514 under the orders of Antón and Enrique Egas and supervision of Pedro Gumiel as the archbishop's architect.
The new building respects the layout of the original temple, remaining the presbytery in the area considered, according to tradition, the martyrdom of the children Justo and Pastor in the year 305 during the persecution of Christians undertaken by Diocletian. The current floor plan, with a hall and three naves with five sections, has a plan similar to that of the Toledo cathedral. A few years later the tower of the old temple was demolished and a new one was built according to the 1531th century project by Rodrigo Gil de Hontañón (1618-XNUMX). The cloister and the chapel of San Pedro were built at the beginning of the XNUMXth century, all built with the ideals of Counter-Reformation architecture.
restoration project
The Cathedral-Magistral Church has been the object of a series of continuous and coordinated actions since the drafting of the Master Plan of May 1996 that have allowed the recovery and enhancement of various areas of the building. A large part of these interventions have been carried out within the framework of the Cathedrals Agreement, with financing from the General Directorate of Heritage of the Community of Madrid.
The latest interventions have been aimed at eliminating injuries and subsequently maintaining:
- Canopies of the cloister, sacristy and annexed areas.
- Humidity treatment and interior painting in order to improve the conservation conditions of factories and spaces.
