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Parish Church of Santa Maria de Fondarella

Fondarella, Pla d'Urgell, Lleida

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Parish Church of Santa Maria de Fondarella

Monument · Fondarella, Pla d'Urgell, Lleida

Former 15th-century convent converted into the parish church of Fondarella, included in the Inventory of Architectural Heritage of Catalonia. It is a simple, single-nave church that closes off a row of village houses; of Romanesque origin, it was remodelled in the 15th century, with a voussoired doorway and a three-opening wall belfry, in a style reminiscent of Sant Martí dels Alamús. Of the original church only the façade remains, topped with a bell-gable acting as a Gothic buttress; the interior, small in size and with three naves, has the central one covered by a depressed barrel vault with reinforcing arches, and closes with a semicircular apse. In the 18th century the vault was repaired (1774) and, later, the roof, the sacristy and the choir (1816).

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