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Church of la Asunción de Yeste

Yeste, Sierra del Segura, Albacete

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Church of la Asunción de Yeste

Monument · Yeste, Sierra del Segura, Albacete

The church of the Assumption, in Yeste, was built over the course of the 16th century and was declared a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) on 16 March 1983. The complex combines two parts from different periods: an initial nave, begun in the late 15th century in Gothic style and finished around 1527, with a polygonal five-bay chancel and star vault; and a second nave, built perpendicular to it with a Renaissance portal with paired columns, which gave the church a T-shaped plan. The church holds pictorial works by Pedro Orrente, including two canvases of Saint Joseph and the Immaculate Conception dated 1627 and an altarpiece of the Epiphany by the same artist, together with figures of Mary, the Calvary and the Crucified Christ from the vanished 16th-century main altarpiece.

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