It is the main and oldest temple in the Cabanyal neighborhood. Dated in the s. XVIII, stylistically belongs to the late Baroque and early neoclassical. It was built in masonry, with a single nave and chapels on both sides, arranged between buttresses that manifest themselves on the outside above them. The roof is resolved with a barrel vault and lunettes on pilasters joined by side arches longitudinally. The Communion Chapel is as wide as the main nave, but shorter, and is also covered with a barrel vault and lunettes with stained glass windows to the outside.

The main façade, in the classicist tradition, is wedged between the two towers of the temple. On the ground floor, the neoclassical doorway ends in a split pediment crowned by a cross. Above this, two niches are located on both sides of a central oculus with stained glass windows. The last body, topped with a triangular pediment, hides the roof and looks like a blind archery with three openings. As for the towers, the lowest, of sober composition and topped by a segmented dome with a square base, served as a lighthouse for fishermen until the second decade of the twentieth century. The highest tower, 30 m. In height, it is organized in two bodies topped in a circular temple on a turret with a square base.

Baroque and neoclassical elements of reference intervene in its composition. Due to the poor condition it was in as a result of damage suffered during the Civil War and the flood of 1957, the church underwent extensive renovation in the 1960s. The current frescoes are the work of the Benedictine monk De Casas. The tiled altarpiece at the foot of the lighthouse tower was restored by Valencia City Council in 1972.


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Plaza de la Esgésia dels Àngels, 2
46011 Valencia