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Church of Masllorenç

Masllorenç, Baix Penedès, Tarragona

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Church of Masllorenç

Monument · Masllorenç, Baix Penedès, Tarragona

Sant Ramon de Masllorenç is the parish church of Masllorenç, in the Baix Penedès, dedicated to Sant Ramon de Penyafort. It is an 18th-century Baroque building with a Latin-cross floor plan, with an octagonal dome over the crossing topped by an angel-shaped weathervane. The sober main façade opens with a semicircular arch of voussoired stone. It was built from a chapel begun between 1582 and 1602; the dome dates from 1776 and the church was blessed in 1780, gaining parish status in 1804 when it separated from Puigtinyós. In 1813 its archive was plundered and burned by retreating French troops, and in 1855 the present bell tower was raised. It was restored in 1975 and declared a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) on 15 December 1982.

Photo: Till F. Teenck (CC BY 3.0)

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