Church of Santa María, Valtierra
The Church of Santa María is a parish church in the town of Valtierra, in the Autonomous Community of Navarre. Built in the 16th century, it contains a monumental Renaissance altarpiece, one of the most artistic of its kind in Spain.
Description
Consecrated under the double invocation of the Holy Virgin Mary in the mystery of the Assumption and the bishop and martyr San Ireneo, it is a building of great proportions built in the 16th century on the ruins of the old Arab mosque of Valtierra. It has a Latin cross plan, with three longitudinal naves and transept, plus a pentapartite chancel. The side naves are subdivided into chapels. The roofs consist of complex ribbed vaults, in Gothic-Renaissance style, which converge on pillars of circular section. The supporting arches (toral, former and perpendicular) are located between the ogive and the semicircular. All the interior walls and the vaulting are painted in white.
Its brickwork, typical of the religious constructions of the Ribera Navarra and lower Aragon, produces in this case a sturdy structure with an austere exterior appearance. The only artistic elaboration is found on the main façade, facing west. It has a large façade in the manner of a classical temple, with a lintelled doorway, cornice and window with a small semicircular pediment, all arranged in a vertical panel flanked by four prismatic Tuscan pilasters and covered by an entablature with architrave and plain frieze, and a pediment with an open oculus. The tower, attached to the left side, has five sections of decreasing width separated by moulded cornices with triglyphs; the first four sections are prismatic, while the upper one has an octagonal section with oculi and belfries that are currently covered.
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