Church of San Pedro de Nora

The church of San Pedro de Nora has great constructive and stylistic affinities with the pre-Romanesque church of Santullano, which allow us to place it in the same period, the reign of Alfonso II the Chaste (791-842).

The oldest documentary reference is dated 20th January 905, when a royal document records its donation to the Cathedral of San Salvador in Oviedo/Uviéu by Alfonso III together with that of the Church of Santa María de Bendones.

Its structure is the same as that of Santullano despite having some different features, such as the absence of a transept, a constructive archaism.

The ground plan is basilical, with three naves separated by pillars, a rectangular tripartite chevet facing east and a portico to the west.

The pillars that separate the naves longitudinally are quadrangular and support four round brick arches, slightly perpendicular, on each side of the main nave.

The chevet is rectangular and tripartite. The three chapels communicate with each other through a door with a brick arch, open in each wall that divides them, and they are covered by a barrel vault over impost, while the naves have a wooden roof.