The Cathedral of Oviedo between the 9th and 14th Centuries: Chevets, Altars and Chapels

Abstract

Literature about San Salvador Oviedo has been conditioned by the foundational stages of the cathedral. The appearance of the church built by Alfonso II in the 9^th century has been interpreted in different ways, on the basis of the records, showing how contradictory is in this regard the documentary evidence. In this article, it is proposed a possible remodelling of the cathedral church at the beginning of the 12^th century. This transformation could explain the references to a church with a huge transept of thirty meters in length during the beginning of the works of the new Gothic cathedral in the second half of the 14^th century.