The chapel of San Fermín
The exterior
The exterior of the Chapel of San Fermín shows its Baroque conception in elevation, with a Greek cross inscribed in a square, the whole embraced by a double wing with the pretensions of a palace, on two floors, the lower one in stone with large arcades, and the upper one in brick and with straight openings, one and the other with grilles. The headwall and the adjoining wall have two oculi (which had previously been rectangular windows, as is evident from their imprints) between the heraldic arms of the City of Pamplona, in ceramic on highlights. The walls, delimited by pilasters at their angles, end in triangular pediments, with blind oculi in their tympana. Here the brickwork is perfectly worked, especially on the cornices, which, as they have curved mouldings, required moulds to be pressed. The octagonal drum rises above, with rectangular windows topped by triangular pediments, and with a cornice, each of whose facets is decorated with six corbels. The crowning glory is the lantern, rebuilt in 1823-1824, which ends in a metal cross.
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ANÓNIMO, Relación de las Plausibles Fiestas con que ha celebrado la Mui Noble i Mui Leal Ciudad de Pamplona, Cabeza del Ilmo. y Fidelissimo Reyno de Navarra, la Translación de su Gran patron saint San Fermín de la Antigua Capilla a la Nueva, que ha fabricado su devoción, Pamplona, Juan José Ezquerro, 1717.
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GARCÍA GAINZA, M. C. and others, Catálogo Monumental de Navarra, t. V***, Merindad de Pamplona. Pamplona. Indices generales, Pamplona, Government of Navarre, Archbishopric of Pamplona, University of Navarre, 1997, pp. 187-196.
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MOLINS MUGUETA, J. L., Capilla de San Fermín en la iglesia de San Lorenzo de Pamplona, Pamplona, Diputación Foral de Navarra-Institución "Príncipe de Viana",Ayuntamiento de Pamplona, 1974.
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MOLINS MUGUETA, J. L., El culto a San Fermín, in "Sanfermines. 204 horas de historia", Pamplona, Larrión y Pimoulier, 1992, pp. 31-39.
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MOLINS MUGUETA, J. L., Las Capillas de San Fermín y Ntra. Sra. del Camino en Pamplona, in "El Arte en Navarra", no. 27, Pamplona , Diario de Navarra, 1995 , pp. 417-432.
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On the website of the Chair de Patrimonio y Arte Navarro: An example of a "green man" in the Chapel of San Fermín in Pamplona, in "La pieza del mes", December 2013.
