Templar church, Tomar
At the heart of this construction is a simple Templar plan - a centralised church modelled on the Holy Sepulchre, with a central octagon enclosed in a 16-sided ambulatory. (cf Santo Sepolcro, Pisa: the church of Torres del Rio in northern Spain: or the church of Vera Cruz, Segovia) But later ornament has filled the space and turned it into a dimly glowing treasury of gilded woodwork and rich pigment.
Templar church, Tomar
At the heart of this construction is a simple Templar plan - a centralised church modelled on the Holy Sepulchre, with a central octagon enclosed in a 16-sided ambulatory. (cf Santo Sepolcro, Pisa: the church of Torres del Rio in northern Spain: or the church of Vera Cruz, Segovia) But later ornament has filled the space and turned it into a dimly glowing treasury of gilded woodwork and rich pigment.