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The Holy Chalice of the Lord's SupperThe old Chapter House
The old Chapter House was built under the order of Bishop Vidal de Blanes between 1365 and 1369. It was place for celebration of the Courts of the Kingdom and Theology classes by Saint Vincent Ferrer, among others.
In 1916 the Holy Chalice was moved to the chapter house, its current chapel.
View Style and description, The alabaster altarpiece and The entrance door and the passageway
Before 1916
The Christ
of the Good Death 17th century
Old Chapter House before the transfer of the Holy Chalice, at the beginning of the 20th century.
More information on the interior tour, Chapel of Christ of the Good Death.
Style and description
The chapel is in a flowery Gothic style (14th century); It has a square plan and plain walls of carved stone.
The chapel measures 13 metres wide and 16 metres high, and is covered with a star-like ribbed vault which arches extend until they rest on polychrome corbels.
Star-shaped ribbed vault. © Diego Delso, delso.photo, Licencia CC-BY-SA
The coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
in heaven following
the Assumption.
In the vault
The twelve apostles are in the peripheral keystones of the vault, and in the central keystone, the coronation of the Virgin Mary in heaven after the Assumption, main mistery of this Cathedral.
This space was not affected by the neoclassical reform of the 18th century. and in it was placed the alabaster altarpiece, the old entrance to the choir (15th century).
More information on the interior tour, Chapel of the Holy Chalice.
In this setting, the twelve reliefs by the Florentine Giuliano Poggibonsi1stand out. The lower scenes correspond to the Old Testament and are a prophecy of the upper ones, from the New Testament.
1. Disciple of Lorenzo Ghiberti (Florence, 1378, December 1, 1455), sculptor of the Gates of Paradise (Baptistery of the Florence Cathedral).
Detail of the upper part of the Alabaster altarpiece.
Side view of the portico that today guards the Holy Chalice.
The Holy Spirit descends on Mary and the apostles.
(Acts 2, 1-4)
The prophet Jonah
is returned by the fish on the shore.
(Jonah 2, 1 y 2)
Samson carries off
the gates of Gaza.
(Judges 16, 3)
King Solomon
receives his mother.
(Kings 2, 19-20)
Moses lifts the bronze serpent in the desert.
(Num 21,4-9)
Jesus Christ crowns
his Mother as queen in heaven.
(Romans 8, 29-30)
On the walls
On the walls you can see the “Adoration of the Kings”, a fresco painting by Nicolás Florentino (1472), “San Cristóbal” by Gonçal Peris, the “Expulsion of the Moors” by Vicente López and the chains that closed the port of Marseille, brought by Alfonso V the Magnanimous in the 15th century.
Expulsion of the Moors Oil by Vicente López
19th century
The front door and the passageway
When the naves were extended in the 15th century to reach the bell tower and the chapter room, the architect Pere Compte, also author of the Lonja de Valencia, built the passageway to the old chapter house in 1496.
Detail of the ceiling of Pere Comte in the passageway. © Felivet
The Madonna with the Infant Jesus.
Limestone sculpture.
14th century
On one side of the corridor you can see, among others, the funerary monument of Bishop Vidal de Planes, driving force of the construction of the Chapter House and the “Adoration of the shepherds”, a fresco painting (1472) by Francesco Pagano de Neapoli and Paolo de San Leocadio, of the Chapter House, passed onto canvas, which was the decoration testing for the main chapel.
View more on the website of the Valencia Cathedral Museum, www.museocatedralvalencia.com
