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Church of Santa Ana (Algodonales)

Algodonales, Sierra de Cádiz, Cádiz

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Church of Santa Ana (Algodonales)

Monument · Algodonales, Sierra de Cádiz, Cádiz

The church of Santa Ana stands on the Plaza de la Constitución, in the centre of Algodonales (Cádiz); it is a Baroque temple from 1784, the work of the architect José Álvarez, rebuilt after the fire started by Napoleonic troops on the site of an earlier parish church. Its doorways, main and lateral, are later, the work of the master builder José Durán following designs by Antonio de Figueroa y Ruiz. It has a hall-church plan with three naves, a transept and a flat east end; the main façade, with a large chancel arch and triangular pediment, houses a niche with the sculptural group of Santa Ana and the Virgin as a child. The bell tower, rebuilt between 1790 and 1798 by José Echamorro after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, ends in a two-tier spire. Inside, the neoclassical altarpiece of the main chapel and a working organ stand out.

1784

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