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Church of Santa María de la Varga

Uceda, La Campiña, Guadalajara

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Church of Santa María de la Varga

Monument · Uceda, La Campiña, Guadalajara

The church of Santa María de la Varga, today in ruins within the cemetery of Uceda (Guadalajara), was built in the first half of the 13th century with a Romanesque layout and some features in the arches that are already Gothic. It has three naves ending in semicircular apses, the central one larger and reinforced with engaged columns, lit by three double-arched openings; it was built in limestone ashlar brought from a quarry near the monastery of Bonaval, in Retiendas. Its south doorway shows six archivolts on paired colonnettes, and in the 18th century the south apse was refurbished with Baroque plasterwork. An archaeological study has catalogued 180 masons' marks on the building. It was declared a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) on 8 October 1991.

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