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Church of San Antonio Abad de Rafelbunyol

Rafelbunyol, L'Horta Nord, Valencia

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Church of San Antonio Abad de Rafelbunyol

Monument · Rafelbunyol, L'Horta Nord, Valencia

The parish church of San Antonio Abad de Rafelbunyol has its origin in a deed of 1289, by which the lord of the alquería (farmstead) ordered a church and altar to be built in honour of San Antonio Abad. In 1491 Pope Innocent VII made it an independent parish. The original church remained standing until 1750, when the first stone of the present-day temple was laid; the bell tower, by contrast, had been built almost fifty years earlier and is independent of the church. During the Civil War it was used as a cooperative store and its interior was destroyed almost completely, except for the rear wall of the high altar. The building, in Valencian Baroque style, has a central nave in the shape of a Latin cross, side chapels and a transept marked by an octagonal dome that lights the interior from above.

Photo: Juan Emilio Prades Bel (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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