In the neighborhood of Velluters, occupying almost a complete block, is the School of the Pious School built in the eighteenth century. It is a complex formed by the convent, the school and the church.

At first, the school and convent were built by the architect of the Scholastic Order Blas of the Holy Spirit.

Under the impulse of Archbishop Mayoral , work began on the church in 1767, following the traces of José Puchol, also collaborating with Antonio Gilabert, until later Gilabert took charge of the work with an improvement of the project. The church has a circular floor plan with a diameter of 24.5 meters.

The interior has three elevated bodies

The first body is structured with fluted Corinthian pilasters between which the Palladian motif develops with a smaller order, which gives way to the ten radial spaces. Of these radial spaces, eight are exedras with a concave bottom between trapezoidal machones, while the other two are rectangular correspond to the main chapel and the exterior entrance, one of the exedras is the entrance from the collegiate rooms.

The second, much simpler body is organized by lintel spaces with columns in the front. A railing runs through the space protecting the passage that connects the different tribunes. The upper part is structured by ten rectangular windows, which fall on the lower galleries, niches in the machones and boxes with decoration. On this body the large semi-spherical dome is vaulted with a central lantern with ten windows. Outside, the dome stands out with a small drum and the blue tiled roof, like the lantern.

The classicist façade, almost 34 meters long and almost 30 meters high, is divided into two bodies of different heights, vertically compartmentalized into five streets. The lower body is structured with pilasters of Ionic order, paired in the central part flanking the doorway. The cover is divided into two sections, the lower lintel with an entablature with two medallions on the sides and in the center the coat of arms of Archbishop Mayoral. The second section, which overlaps the curved pediment split from the lower one, houses a niche with the sculpture of Saint Joaquin. Windows and niches develop in the side streets. The upper body of the façade is developed with Corinthian pilasters on a high pedestal perforated by windows, this space in the center being invaded by a triangular pediment of the lower body. The central street is flanked by paired pilasters, with a rectangular opening in the centre topped by a semicircular pediment. The façade is topped with a projecting cornice and a parapet at the top with balls and pitchers. To the right of the façade is the bell tower. The bell body extends from the façade, and has a semicircular arch on each side flanked by paired pilasters of Doric order on which is an entablature with corbels on which is arranged a parapet with pitchers. At the top a small temple on which stands the lantern covered with blue tile.

Between 1995 and 1999 the façade of the church and the school, directed by Rafael Soler Verdú, was restored.


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Calle Carniceros, 6