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The church of Santa María de Ujué

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high school and outbuildings around the church

Around the temple there are a series of outbuildings, some of them in ruins, which completed the sanctuary. Located next to the gable wall of the church, perpendicular to the Gospel side, are the ruins of a large rectangular construction, divided into two spaces, both with two windows, and articulated in two heights, the upper one resting on transversal arches whose starts are still visible today. This space was used in the 18th century as a sacristy and in origin could correspond to the General Study begun by Charles II between 1378 and 1379. Also in the Gospel wall, parallel to it, there is a large space, called 'cloister', articulated by four lowered arches on pillars and covered with wooden framework supported by flying buttresses. Its function is unknown, but it may have been built in the time of Blanca I (1385-1441). To the same period or to that of her father Carlos III (1361-1425) corresponds the space that surrounds the header, Closed by a wall in which a chimney and different openings with Gothic viewpoints are arranged, which attests to its use as residency program, which is corroborated by the existence of a latrine. It was probably also used as a guild house or hostelry. Finally, in front of the main doorway of the church is a rectangular house of various heights divided into two bays by superimposed pillars and covered by a wooden structure. It has a door with a pointed arch and several lintel windows on corbels. This building was used throughout history as a tithe house.

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high school and outbuildings around the church

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  • URANGA, J. J., Ujué medieval, Pamplona, 1984.

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