The church, beginning in 1534, is the first great church built by Vandelvira and from here he left two years later to Ubeda where Francis of the Cobos had commissioned him to perform the Sacred Chapel of El Salvador. The church was completed during the 18th century although the shrimp of the Christ of the Veracruz dates from the 18th century.

In the lightness of the domes and in their composition, elements are intuited that will be present in their most representative architectural element, the vanish dome. The paintings that cover the domes of the central ship date from 1575, the work of Pedro Raxis representing scenes of the Old Testament and the Passion of Christ.

We can imagine Vandelvira and his assistants during the first years of the construction of this church, large wooden scaffolding, the noise of the quarries, piles of stone to be turned into armchairs and the caleros selling lime for the argamase. Without a doubt, the most curious image should be the perplexity of the elderly, seeing such thin pillars on the sides of a great central ship, nothing to do with the churches of the area, or the recite Sanctuary of the Virgin of Fuensanta, in the nearby Villanueva of the Archbishop.