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The church of San Cornelio y San Cipriano

Villaverde de Guareña, La Armuña, Salamanca

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The church of San Cornelio y San Cipriano

Monument · Villaverde de Guareña, La Armuña, Salamanca

The church of San Cornelio y San Cipriano, in Villaverde de Guareña, in the Salamancan comarca of La Armuña, is dedicated to two saints uncommon in the area and was declared a site of cultural interest on 29 July 1993. Its construction began in the late 15th or early 16th century: it has a single nave that narrows towards the chancel, with a tower at the foot and an attached sacristy, in three bays with round arches. The nave's roof is of timber with two slopes, and the chancel displays a polychrome coffered ceiling, with double tie-beams and chamfered corners. The building, of ashlar and rubble masonry, opens to the south through a doorway with an eaves canopy, round arch and pediment. Madoz described in 1845 a village of one hundred single-storey houses and ninety-two inhabitants.

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