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Saint Pedro Church



DETAILS


  • Municipality: VILLAMENA - Cónchar
  • Type of Equity: Churches
  • Description: It was built between 1610 and 1614. It has a single nave and a Mudejar-style façade in brick and stone.


INFORMATION


The church of Cónchar dedicated to San Pedro, was projected by Ambrosio de Vico under the archbishop of Pedro de Gómez de Mendoza. The first church was demolished in 1607, although the tower was preserved as it was a good work. In 1610 Vico gives the traces and conditions of the new one and the construction begins by Antonio Bermúdez mason and Alonso López Zamudio. The works finished in 1614.
 
It has a rectangular plan with the tower and the sacristy on the left side of the presbytery. The walls are made of masonry and brick. The nave with the main altar is covered with a smooth limousine armor with only rectangular combing on the ends of the musk and equal braces. Beams are made of cardboard open in a S shape. A few years ago it was restored, keeping only the straps but following the primitive style in the rest.
 
We have confirmation of other major repairs. The first, in 1809, when Alejo Guerrero, a bricklayer, was paid 3,000 reales to collect materials for the work on the church in Conchar, and in the same year, his parish priest collected 2,211 reales. Also after the earthquake of 1844, part of the tower had to be demolished and rebuilt. This has a square floor plan and a central buttress in the first body, which is primitive and the only sign of antiquity. The body of bells is whitewashed like the rest of the church, except for the façade. It has a traditional brick doorway and a little one more decorated with Tuscan pilasters, an excessively high corbel (in the appraisal it is called a "taja") and pyramids at the borders.

Coordinates: 36.9657159,-3.5887929

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