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Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain

Note 138 — Chapter VI · ASTORGA, LUGO, LA CORUÑA.

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The following inscription remains on one of the columns on the north side of the nave:—

SANTA : MARIA : RECE AB : ESTE : PIAR : DE : FON DO : A TE : CIMA : CON : LA METADE : DOS : AR COS : CA : QUELQUE : O : PAGON : EN : VIII. : IDUS JULII : ERA : MCCC : XL.

From which it appears that this column, with the halves of the two arches springing from it, was built in A.D. 1302. On another column on the same side is an inscription recording the erection of the Chapel of the Visitation in A.D. 1374.

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