Convento de San Norberto

The Convento de Premonstratenses de San Norberto, also known as Convento de Mostenses or Convento de San Norberto, in reference to the founder of the Premonstratensian Order, for who was dedicated, is a religious building disappeared it was located on the ground of the current Plaza de los Mostenses, next to the Gran Vía of Madrid . It was founded in 1611 by the community of the Fathers Canons Premonstratensians with the permission of Cardinal Archbishop of Toledo Bernardo de Rojas and financed by a benefactor, the Count of Miranda, Juan of Zúñiga, the then president of the Council of Castile. Today the site of the convent is occupied by a market built in the 19th century, known as Mercado de los Mostenses.
Its church had been rebuilt in 1754 by architect Ventura Rodríguez, for be the previous ruined. It had a beautiful convex façade flanked by two towers, but was victim of the unbridled plan of opening of plazas of the king Joseph Bonaparte . First it was demolished the convent in April 1810, but in May of the same year also was issued order to demolish the church. However, the architects who were commissioned to direct this operation, Silvestre Pérez and Juan Antonio Cuervo refused, because the artistic value of the work it joined that both had been disciples of self Ventura Rodríguez. However, their negative reports were of no avail and in 1811 a new royal order finished by tearing down what that left of the building.

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