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Church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Carmena

Carmena, Torrijos, Toledo

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Church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Carmena

Monument · Carmena, Torrijos, Toledo

The parish church of Our Lady of the Assumption, in Carmena (Toledo), is a 16th-century Renaissance-style church, built on the remains of an old castle that may have formed part of the tower's base. It has a single nave divided into three bays, with barely developed transept arms, a flat east end with a rectangular crypt below, and is covered by a barrel vault with lunettes, while a dome on pendentives rises above the crossing. At the west end, the choir is raised on four large corbels. The tower, square in plan with brick decoration and an octagonal upper body, together with a baroque chapel with a hemispherical dome, complete the complex. On the north wall a Roman funerary slab is preserved, in capital letters, dated to around the 2nd century.

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