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Occupying most of the Gospel wall is the monumental Baroque doorway, the work of Vicente Frías and Juan Antonio San Juan, completed in 1713. It has an apse structure with lateral bodies, Baroque version of the Renaissance façade of Santa María de Viana, from which the exedra façades of the area derive. It is composed by five streets and two bodies on double base, articulated by Solomonic columns and pillars of compound capital, finished off by a great shell that shelters the three main streets. The first body is centered by a straight door with a linteled opening on which the episcopal and cardinal's emblems of the Saint stand, framed on the side streets by the images of Saint Peter and Saint Paul inscribed in niches, while on the outer ones there are blind frames with lugs. In the second section there is a niche with the image of San Gregorio Ostiense framed in the lateral streets by panels with scenes of his life, now lost, while in the external ones large concave flaps bridge the difference in height of the two sections. The entire façade is richly decorated with vegetal scrolls, acanthus leaf garlands and vegetal elements, rosettes, geometric plaques, scallops and cherubs, some of which have been lost since it was made of plaster.