Chapel of Santa Tecla

The Chapel of Santa Tecla, whose full invocation is of Santa Tecla and Santiago, is in the Cathedral of Burgos. Of ample proportions, it was built in the eighteenth century in Baroque style. Part of the regular worship of the Cathedral is officiated in this chapel. It was built between 1731 and 1736 next to the foot of the cathedral, attaching it to the nave of the Gospel or northern, on the initiative of Archbishop Manuel Samaniego y Jaca according to a project by Andrés Collado and Francisco de Basteguieta. The new chapel merged the spaces that until then occupied four small medieval chapels, of niche type, limited to a section of the nave each and shallow, dedicated to Santa Práxedes, Santa Victoria, Todos los Santos and Santa Lucía, plus the annexed parish church of Santiago de la Fuente. Other artists involved in the work were Juan de Areche, Alberto Churriguera, Domingo de Ondategui and Juan de Sagarvinaga, among others. In his consecration, he took the double title of Santa Tecla, saint of special devotion in the Diocese of Tarragona, from which the prelate Samaniego came, and of Santiago, in memory of the suppressed parish.

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