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Church of la Asunción de Fanzara

Fanzara, El Alto Mijares, Castellón

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Church of la Asunción de Fanzara

Monument · Fanzara, El Alto Mijares, Castellón

The Church of the Asunción in Fanzara, in the Baroque style, was built in the centre of the town's historic quarter, completed in 1682 on the site of a more modest earlier church; the Chapel of the Communion was added in 1742 and the sacristy in 1753. It has a single nave with six bays, side chapels between the buttresses and a polygonal chancel, covered by a barrel vault with lunettes that becomes star-ribbed over the chancel, decorated with floral sgraffito. The façade, on one side, is bare except for the doorway, flanked by superimposed Doric and Ionic pilasters, and by the square-plan, two-tier bell tower. The Chapel of the Communion has a Greek-cross plan with a dome on a drum. It belonged to the diocese of Tortosa until 1960, being its only Spanish-speaking parish.

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