Built under the auspices of bishop Gines de Casanova, trained in the counter-reform domain of Valencia Archbishop San Juan de Ribera, this was built in the early 17th century, between 1620 and 1630, beside the remains of what was once the medieval beguinage of San Martín. With its sober and austere pre-baroque architecture, the outside walls are made of masonry and ashlar stone, the entrance being located on the right-hand side, built in two bodies, the lower one with its main access flanked by Dorian pilasters and the upper one with a niche, curved pediment and lateral volutes. On the inside, a single-nave temple with five sections, with chapels between buttresses and raised choir at the foot.

The internal structure of the temple is based on the use of Tuscan pilasters with recessed stem and caisson-layout cannon vault, with the particular feature of designing the presbytery covering with a quarter-sphere vault in the form of a scallop shell. The whole church has kept its original altarpieces, made in carved wood, polychrome decorated and relief painted on gilt ground with interesting 17th century paintings from the Juan Ribalta workshop, an artist's group which also worked on the churches of the Colegio del Patriarca of Valencia or the parish church of Andilla and some of whose master craftsmen include Vicente Castelló, Gaspar Huerta and Abdón Castañeda. There are also a large number of additional canvasses of great interest. At the exhibition one can appreciate a selection of the best pieces of precious metalwork and ornaments of the bishopric, from monstrances, processional crosses and embroideries to the processional cross of San Martín in polychrome-decorated wood, an important work which was done by master Ribalta himself and discovered in the architectural restoration.




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Contains 17th century works.



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