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Church of San Pedro Apóstol de Buenache de Alarcón

Buenache de Alarcón, La Manchuela Conquense, Cuenca

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Church of San Pedro Apóstol de Buenache de Alarcón

Monument · Buenache de Alarcón, La Manchuela Conquense, Cuenca

The parish church of San Pedro Apóstol, in Buenache de Alarcón, has a hall-church plan with three naves, the central one taller, covered with a trough-shaped timber ceiling except at the side chancels, which are closed with tierceron and ribbed vaults, the latter with a two-light Gothic window topped with trefoils. Over the crossing rises a hemispherical ribbed dome on pendentives, and the semicircular apse, with an arrow-slit now blocked up, points to a proto-Gothic origin in the 13th century. Next to the presbytery there are two chapels: that of the Santo Cristo de la Viga, in the shape of a Latin cross with a dome and lantern, and that of the Inmaculada Concepción, built in ashlar, commissioned by Diego de Reillo, archpriest of Belmonte, between 1675 and 1686. It preserves an 18th-century Baroque altarpiece with Solomonic columns dedicated to San Pedro.

Photo: Millars (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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