Talk:Irapuato Cathedral

Some issues
I worked on this page because of unknown words found by Typo Team/moss. But I found that there are other issues as well.

First, I identified the words formeros and torales as Spanish church architectural terms. Once I found that, I suspect that the word canon is also a Spanish word, and it translated to "barrel". This could well go along with the concept of "barrel vault" structure.

However, I also found a web page of the Historical Marker Database that deals with this cathedral; the URL is https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=127335. I'm tempted to use the information in this source because I'm assuming (though I may be wrong) that it's more local and more authoritative. This source contradicts several points in the article.


 * 1) Unknown date of construction -- HMDB says it was built in the 18th century.
 * 2) "by the year 1631 already existed as a parish" -- This is obscure. Considering Mexico's and the Western hemisphere's history, I'd have to say that it's more likely that the church was built in the 18th rather than the early-mid 17th century.  Perhaps the reference to 1631 relates to what HMDB says that the church contains records going back to 1640.  Not at all sure.
 * 3) If the "canon" refers to a barrel vault, HMDB says that the church has a groined vault. (But maybe this is not a contradiction; I'm writing this entire thing with no knowledge of church architecture whatsoever.)

Also, the third paragraph mostly includes the information in the second paragraph, and it is not well written.

I don't want to make any further changes without knowing more, but I'd give the HMDB source greater weight and modify accordingly. Jkgree (talk) 21:12, 27 February 2019 (UTC)