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Church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Socuéllamos

Socuéllamos, La Mancha, Ciudad Real

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Church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Socuéllamos

Monument · Socuéllamos, La Mancha, Ciudad Real

The church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción is the parish church of Socuéllamos (Ciudad Real), built on the same site where a place of worship had already existed since the town's refoundation, at the end of the 13th century. The earliest documentary references to the current building date from 1478-1480, when it was a rammed-earth building with a wooden roof. At the end of the 17th century its complete refurbishment was put out to tender, concluding in 1750 with the construction of the tower, destroyed by a fireworks accident in 1903 and rebuilt in 1956. Between 1775 and 1795 a retable was erected, designed by Salzillo and carved by José Castell; it was destroyed during the Civil War along with the choir, the images and the organ, and was remade in the mid-20th century in Corinthian style carved in wood. In 1970 a chapel was added beside the main altar, the work of the architect Antonio Gómez Villaseñor.

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