Church of San Pedro de Nora

Les Regueres, Spain

Saint Peter of Nora (Iglesia de San Pedro de Nora) is recorded for the first time in a donation document of Alfonso III of Asturias in 905.

Given its similarities with the church of San Julián de los Prados and the church of Santa María de Bendones, it was probably built in the times of Alfonso II of Asturias. Declared National Monument in 1931, the church burnt in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War losing the roof. It was restored by Luis Menéndez Pidal y Alvarez.

This church has the construction style established in church of San Julián de los Prados: facing eastwards, vestibule separate from the main structure, basilica-type ground plan, central nave higher than the side aisles, with intersecting wooden roof and lit by Windows with stone lattice. The straight sanctuary is divided into three apses with barrel vaults. As a differentiating element, the apses were joined to each other through the dividing walls by semicircular-arched doors. Like all the churches from this period, there was a room over the apse, only accessible from outside through a trefoil window. The bell tower, separate from the church like in Santa María de Bendones, does not belong to the original construction, and stems from an initiative in the seventies by the architect and great restorer of Asturian Pre-Romanesque, Luis Menéndez Pidal y Alvarez.

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Founded: 9th century AD
Category: Religious sites in Spain

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Sergio Fernández Bueno (4 months ago)
Pre-Romanesque temple built in the times of Alfonso II, with three naves. The bell tower is much later, dating from the reconstruction of the temple after the Civil War. On the outside there are elements of the Asturian pre-Romanesque, the triforated window or the lattices. I haven't seen it inside.
Pisadiel (7 months ago)
Asturian pre-Romanesque church (9th century), attributed to the master Tioda, when King Alfonso II of Asturies (791-842), located next to the Nora river, in Les Regueres. Very similar to Bendones and Santullano, from the same period, with a basilica plan, three naves separated by arches with a wooden roof and three apses - a straight tripartite head - with a vaulted roof - which are reflected by 6 buttresses on the outside. Pictorial remains. Burned in the Civil War (1936), it was rebuilt (1964) by the architect Luis Menéndez-Pidal. National Monument (1931). World Heritage Site (1985).
Giulia Maffucci (7 months ago)
Just a suggestion about how to visit the church: the phone number you can find in internet belongs to an old lady that often doesnt answer. You should call the "ayuntamiento" of the church to have the number of the lady having the church key. This lady lives just behind the church (there is a rock wall with a wooden door), so you can also try to go there and bell her door (as we did) and if you're lucky, she's there.
Teresa (11 months ago)
Very nice, it is worth stopping, pre-Romanesque church from the 10th century, destroyed during the civil war and rebuilt in the 60-70s, it is worth it
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