Escañuela
Description
The absence of political autonomy, the absence of a local nobility or bourgeoisie, and the lack of economic resources, led the project to raise a parish church consecrated to San Pedro ad Vincula to be postponed until well into the 19th century and needed remodeling still at the end of the 20th century.
The absence of political autonomy, the absence of a local nobility or bourgeoisie, and the lack of economic resources, led the project to raise a parish church consecrated to San Pedro ad Vincula to be postponed until well into the 19th century and needed remodeling still at the end of the 20th century.
The church rose on an old hermitage and the old cemetery, located next to it. It was from the 1860-70's that the works of the temple were promoted following the project of Vicente Serrano and whose execution would be carried out by José María de Cuenca.
It consists of a single ship, articulated by sections, with curved header and irregular plant by the annexation of spaces for chapels on the side of the Gospel. Close to the feet is the chorus and, symmetrically designed, two snail stairs. It is covered with a two-water Arab tile and has a lower height even than the houses it has attached.
Its current cover does not conform to the one drawn in 1860, which had a classical pseudo air, a narrow entrance hole and a fronton that was born from the roof line; it was changed by a simpler, more functional and less packed inlet. The tower, located on a side of the presbytery, has a square structure in which its initial chapitel has also been replaced by a slender flashlight that gives it a somewhat exotic air. The facade, gilded, is reinforced by small counterstrengths. In 1993 Luis Alonso Salcedo restored the tower by giving him the eclectic air that he now presents and also directed the works of the presbytery and the chapel of the Virgin of the Remedies.
