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The church of la Asunción de Melgar

Melgar de Fernamental, Odra-Pisuerga, Burgos

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The church of la Asunción de Melgar

Monument · Melgar de Fernamental, Odra-Pisuerga, Burgos

The church of the Asunción de Melgar de Fernamental combines two phases: begun in the 14th century on a Latin-cross plan, in imitation of Burgos Cathedral, it was largely rebuilt around 1560, in the mid-16th century, because of its poor condition, changing to a hall-church plan with a broad interior space. The 16th-century works were begun by the stonemason Juan de Escarza and, after his death, continued by his son Pedro de Escarza and by Pedro de la Torre Bueras, a stonemason from Trasmiera, until well into the 17th century. It preserves a Romanist main altarpiece completed in 1677 by the joiner Gabriel González de la Torre, a baroque walnut choir and a Gothic doorway from the school of Gil de Siloé. The tower, neoclassical and based on designs by Juan de Herrera, was built in the mid-18th century by Juan de Sagarvinaga, being finished in 1749.

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