Estudio tipológico de las iglesias del Centro Histórico de Cuenca: parroquia Gil Ramírez Dávalos

Abstract

The Historic Center of Cuenca contains valuable ecclesiastical heritage, whose management is limited by a fragmented understanding of its constructive, spatial, and formal evolution. This thesis develops a typological study of churches built since the 19th century in the Gil Ramírez Dávalos parish: the Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción (1885), the Church de Santo Domingo (1906), the Church of the Cenáculo (1894), the Church of San Francisco (1930–1932) and the Church of Cristo Rey (1927-1960), with the aim of revealing the importance of typological emphasis for heritage conservation. While employing a qualitative, descriptive-comparative methodology, through documentary, planimetric, and field research, the construction phases of each building are reconstructed. Based on the results, systematized from information in individual documents and comparative matrices, the study seeks to analyze the process of material and formal adaptation of these buildings to the context of historicist eclecticism. The research aims to establish unified analytical criteria that will serve as a technical basis for evaluating the internal coherence of the temples, thus legitimizing and protecting the city's architectural heritage.