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=1º- Streets were we can found.= The Church or parish of St Andrew it can found in the number 1 in the plaza de San Andrés, in the Latin District in Madrid.

=2º- Centuries/Ages in which is was contructed.= The parish was constructed at final of the century XII, it substituted the primitive chuch of the Islamic Madrid. This parish was frecuently visited by St. Isidro

=3º- Who told to construct?= Next to this monument was located the house of his landlord Ivan de Vargas. Above it was raised "el Palacio de los Marqueses de Paredes", in wich was located the well where a miracle from the saint occured, an the chapel in where St. Isidro lived. But, for Elías Tormo the location of the primitive church was occupy by a mosque that then it was the palace of the Lasso of castile, residence of the Catholic Monarchs and the cardinal Cisneroswhen they were in Madrid. In the time of the Catholic Monarchs the church was reformed to the gothic style opened a high pass that communicated the church with the palace.

=4º- Who constructed?= ​We only know a few information of the origins of this parish and the first date that we have about it is in the XII century.

=5º- For what is was constructed?= This parish was constructed to pay tribute to the apostle St. Andres and for praise him.

=6º- For what is use now?= Actually this parish was substituied by the rectory house because it was burnt in the year 1936. But in its place, the Chapel of St. Isidro is used to celebrate mass and one day in the year the rests of saint Isidro are take out.

=7º- Description of the building= As the parish was burnt and there aren´t images of the past te only thing that we know is that during the time of the Catholic Monarchs the parish of St. Andres was reformed into gothic style.

=8º- Chapel of St. Isidro= After the canonize of St. Isidro in the year 1622 was decided put a chapel next to the place in where the rests of the saint were deposed. In 1629 the architect of his Majesty, Juan Gomez de Mora,presented their plans. But in the year 1642 a competition was summoned in wich the best architects present their plans, incluiding Gomez de Mora. The winner project was made by Pedro de la Torre. It was simple but bigger than the church, and its interiorwas magnificent ornate. It like so much that the same Pedro de la Torre start the work. But in 1650 only the foundations were did cause by the difficulty in the economy. In 1657 Jose de Villareal continued the work until his finished by Juan de Lobera and Sebastian Herrera Barnuevo in 1669. Juan Herrero Barnuevo projects an altarpiece for the chest of the relics of the saint. The interior was decorated with marbles and jade complemented with decorates of Carlos Blondei and Francisco de la Viña. Francisco de Rizzi and Juan Carreño de Miranda were charges of the pictures of the life of St. Isidro combined with pictures dedicate to the Virgin by Alonso del Arco and Francisco Caro. The doors were decorating with an image of St. Isidro, other of the Virgin and with advances colums for the time. After the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767 the chest of St. Isidro were moved to the church of the Imperial school. The chapel was burnt in 1936. Only the exterior was survived. But the architects J. Velles, M. Casariego and F. Posada reconstructed exactly the interior. The basaments were made in the originals rocks, the colums in wood with panels of gold and decorate gympsum, and rhe dome and the drum with paint a water with effects form and dispels.

=9º- Legends= Like all monument from the historic Madrid, the Parish of St. Andres and the Chapel of St. Isidro have thei legends. One of the legends of the chapel says that the construction and decorationg of the chapel cost twelve millions of reales donated by the small town, viceroy and kings of Peru and Mejico. Other legend of the parish says that in the cmentery located at the base of the parish was buried St. Isidro. In the year 1212 it was exhumed and visited by the king Alfonso VIII, who ordered the contrution of the chest of woodand leather that in the year 1620 was substituted by other of gold, silver and bronze. In the reconstruction of the XVII centurythe cementery staid under the parish, but the place, in where the saint was buried, is marked.