Society of Jesus Square in Cordoba, Spain
Society of Jesus Square
One of the most interesting places to include is the Plaza de la Compañía (Society
of Jesus Square), named like this because during a lot of centuries there was a college, called Saint Catherine, and the church of the jesuits.
The Jesuits were thrown out in 1767 due to the reforms carried out by the Count of Aranda during Monarch Charles III period. The church was turned into parish, including the fernandine Church of Saint Dominic of Silos situated in front, and El Salvador (The Saviour) situated in Alfonso XIII Street. So it is known as Parish of The Saviour and Saint Dominic of Silos.
This church has a typical plan related to the jesuits churches. It has a unique nave covered by a barrel vault with lunettes and the transept covered by a dome on groins. Inside there is a wonderful altarpiece made by Teodosio Sánchez de Rueda or the nuestra Our Lady of the Help Altarpiece, made by cordovan artist Alonso Gómez de Sandoval.
The façade is smart and simple. The entrance has got a stone staircase, and yu can go up from link or right. Then there is a sholdered arch flanked by two pillars that are prolonged till the
second part. The entrance is crowned by the shield of Castile and Leon, used by the Austrias, it is into a niche with circle pediment. On both sides there is a shield of Fernández de Córdoba House.
Following the façade, a little further we find the Royal Schools of the Immaculate Conception, rebuilt at the beginning of the XVIII Century on a jesuit College of Saint Catherine. It is composed with a simple façade in white and ochre, where the windows are spotted and its entrance crowned by an easy circular pediment. But the most important is a staircase, imperial-style, made in black and red marble covered by a great dome on groins, decorated
with gypsum imitating rocks.
The Church of Saint Victory College closes the perspective of the square. It has a neoclassical style. It has corynth capitals and a curved wainscot. The church is circular and it has a triangular pediment that crowns the complex and it closes the perspective of the square in the south part. The temple is a work by Baltasar Devreton and Ventura Rodríguez Tizón.
In front of the Church of The Saviour and Saint Dominic
of Silos there is the fernandine Church of Saint Dominic of Silos, today Historical Archive of the Córdoba Province. It was carried out after Ferdinand III conquest. It conserves the Chapel of the Conception, a little jewel of the middle age inside the monumental part. The tower should be restored. It was built in the middle of the XVIII Century and d it represents the cordovan baroque, composed by boards.
In the middle of the square there is a Triumph of Saint Raphael, set up in 1736 by Juan de Santiago. Ramírez de las Casas Deza described it like this: "It is a podium with gold boards. On which there are some latin inscriptions. On it there are four columns of white marble on a sime and a cloud, on it there is Saint Raphael". The gold and the inscriptions that Ramírez de las Casas-Deza told us have been deleting during the years. The gate is bady conserved.
of Jesus Square), named like this because during a lot of centuries there was a college, called Saint Catherine, and the church of the jesuits.
The Jesuits were thrown out in 1767 due to the reforms carried out by the Count of Aranda during Monarch Charles III period. The church was turned into parish, including the fernandine Church of Saint Dominic of Silos situated in front, and El Salvador (The Saviour) situated in Alfonso XIII Street. So it is known as Parish of The Saviour and Saint Dominic of Silos.
This church has a typical plan related to the jesuits churches. It has a unique nave covered by a barrel vault with lunettes and the transept covered by a dome on groins. Inside there is a wonderful altarpiece made by Teodosio Sánchez de Rueda or the nuestra Our Lady of the Help Altarpiece, made by cordovan artist Alonso Gómez de Sandoval.
The façade is smart and simple. The entrance has got a stone staircase, and yu can go up from link or right. Then there is a sholdered arch flanked by two pillars that are prolonged till the
second part. The entrance is crowned by the shield of Castile and Leon, used by the Austrias, it is into a niche with circle pediment. On both sides there is a shield of Fernández de Córdoba House.
Following the façade, a little further we find the Royal Schools of the Immaculate Conception, rebuilt at the beginning of the XVIII Century on a jesuit College of Saint Catherine. It is composed with a simple façade in white and ochre, where the windows are spotted and its entrance crowned by an easy circular pediment. But the most important is a staircase, imperial-style, made in black and red marble covered by a great dome on groins, decorated
with gypsum imitating rocks.The Church of Saint Victory College closes the perspective of the square. It has a neoclassical style. It has corynth capitals and a curved wainscot. The church is circular and it has a triangular pediment that crowns the complex and it closes the perspective of the square in the south part. The temple is a work by Baltasar Devreton and Ventura Rodríguez Tizón.
In front of the Church of The Saviour and Saint Dominic
of Silos there is the fernandine Church of Saint Dominic of Silos, today Historical Archive of the Córdoba Province. It was carried out after Ferdinand III conquest. It conserves the Chapel of the Conception, a little jewel of the middle age inside the monumental part. The tower should be restored. It was built in the middle of the XVIII Century and d it represents the cordovan baroque, composed by boards.
In the middle of the square there is a Triumph of Saint Raphael, set up in 1736 by Juan de Santiago. Ramírez de las Casas Deza described it like this: "It is a podium with gold boards. On which there are some latin inscriptions. On it there are four columns of white marble on a sime and a cloud, on it there is Saint Raphael". The gold and the inscriptions that Ramírez de las Casas-Deza told us have been deleting during the years. The gate is bady conserved.
Text: J.A.S.C.
Traslated by Sara Moretti
Art, Culture and Tourism in Cordoba