Ximenes aimed to use the cathedral both as the center of his cartographical grid and as an instrument of solar physics.
Almost all the main furnishings of the cathedral are included.
So on the whole the cathedral clergy and its noble families were responsible for the economic support of the chapter.
It is an improper way of carving up the cathedral, not a functional feature that is being used for something other than its intended function.
Their discussion of the cathedral door makes another point, however.
The close links with the government can be seen in the types of people recruited to the cathedral priory.
Likewise, they built chapels within their palaces, thereby appropriating a personal sacred space to replace that lost to the canons in the cathedral.
In the seventeenth century there was a pronounced return to cathedrals as burial places.
