San Jeronimo Royal Church, Madrid

[Philip]

The monastery of San Jeronimo was founded in Madrid around the year 1460 and given the royal accolade "el Real" by the king in 1465. As it occupied ground which was somewhat insanitary permission was granted to move to it's present site, next to the Prado museum, in 1503. Work finished two years later. It had strong connections with the monarchy from it's very beginning. It hosted the royal court, and was the place where monarchs gave their pledges as well as receiving their funeral rites. So a bit less monastery and a bit more palace, I suppose. Kings and queens came and went, and bits and bobs were added, removed or changed. In 1808 the monks fled from Murat's French forces, who were laying devastation all around, but were back by1813. Restoration work began at once and the church, the subject of our model, opened for worship. In 1835 San Jeromino el Real passed into state custody and then had a chequered career as an artillery headquarters, an invalid hospital and then a cholera hospital. The church was eventually reopened for religious service but was quickly becoming derelict, so in 1878 the government gave the whole sorry mess back to the archbishopric. How kind. Cardinal Moreno didn't hang about though and immediately began a thorough restoration of the church including smaller details such as stained glass windows, grilles and extra decoration. After the Spanish civil war the town council demolished the streets around the church in order to give it a better aspect.

The kit was designed and coloured by Luis I. Carretero Bajo and published by Arcatura, Madrid, 1989. It's to 1:160 scale and takes up an area of 50 x 21 cm. Had a headache or two with this one, but not enough to put me off what turned out to be an intriguing build.

A bit more info: https://www.gomadrid.com/sights/san-...o-el-real.html

[Michael Mash]

Lovely.
Unless that is a very small table, then that is a very big model.
I am curious: how did you go about making the fence, prominent along the front of the last photo?

[Vermin_King]

You always come up with the wonderful models, sir. How much time was invested to make such a beautiful church?

[Philip]

Hello friends, good to see you.

Michael: All railings, lanterns and lampposts were cut from a sheet of transparencies supplied with the kit.

V_K: About 3 months, I guess, although I don't work on larger projects all in one go anymore. So there were some significant pauses now and then.

Cheers now.

[SCEtoAUX]

That is a nice looking model of the building.

[Viator]

Wow, the idea to print a fence and even all the lanterns on a transparent foil is amazing... They look very realistic.
And the model is really impressive! You really deserved a pigfoot and a bottle of beer!