Chapel of the old Sant Pau school

In Sant Pau street is currently one of the most important educational symbols of the city, the National Institute of Middle Education Lluís Vives.

However, until 1930 it was not known by that name, but by the College of San Pablo, one of the most important educational centers since the seventeenth century, which represents the first Jesuit school that was built in all of Spain.

Future remodeling and rehabilitation have profoundly transformed that construction begun in the mid-sixteenth century, today there are still religious infrastructures, among which the Lluís Vives Chapel stands out.

Currently, the entrance to this chapel can be made both from the interior cloister courtyard, as well as from Sant Pau Street itself, through a neoclassical style door.

The Lluís Vives Chapel has a rectangular floor plan with a single nave and no transept, with rectangular windows with clear Baroque decoration.

It has a total of six chapels between the buttresses and a high choir at the foot that stands out for covering the entire width of the interior of this church.

In the High Altar stands out the gilding that was applied to the wooden altarpiece, a baroque creation by the sculptor Tomás Artigues in the early eighteenth century.

This altarpiece of two bodies and a central niche presents the image of Saint Paul and the Immaculate Conception, coats of arms on the right by Saint Catherine of Alejandria and on the left by Saint Mary Magdalene.

The visitor will find many other pictorial works of religious conception distributed throughout its interior facilities, but of obligatory detail is the Deep Chapel, also known as the Chapel of Communication, located to the left of the presbytery.

This space was built as a sacristy in 1694, but later underwent a complete remodeling. It currently stands out for its vaults and groin vaults, as well as for its decoration with rococo style elements that merge with the rest of the construction, essential contemplation.

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