The ship

Three-aisle nave with niche chapels

The nave follows the model of the church as a preaching space that prevailed during the 15th century, a hall with three bays and chapels between the buttresses. These niche chapels, covered with coffered vaultingThey open onto the nave by means of semicircular arches that project into the opposite wall as blind arches. Conceived as triumphal archesThey are framed by half-columns completed in the Corinthian order, both symbols of triumph over deathwhich support an entablature that encircles the entire church. This entablature, in addition to serving as the architectural articulation of the nave and rotunda, fulfils the function, according to the conditions of 1536, "...".de anden por donde se andar por lo alto de toda la capilla mayor e la nave de la yglesya e asymo mesmo podrá servir esto para musyca de organos o de menestriles altos.". [image 1]

The ship is covered with ribbed vaults in the Gothic tradition, "the weakest part of the whole work"These do not seem to be deduced from the aforementioned conditions of 1536, but appear to be a later addition, not belonging to Diego de Siloé. [image 2]

At the foot of the nave, a very low vault resting on the buttresses of its first bay supports a large tribune for which Blas de Briño built a splendid choir. between 1556 and 1561, which was dismantled and partially despoiled during the civil war and is currently being restored.