Convent of Discalced Carmelite nuns of Corpus Christi, founded in 1681 by Juan Bautista Fos, perpetual schoolboy of the Royal Seminary College of Corpus Christi of Valencia, was located in the Ruzafa area, moving shortly to a place near the Crown Gate, where it still remains.
The first stone of the new convent was laid on October 15, 1687, a date that appears on the lintel of the door itself.
Built the church under the Mannerist directive emanating from the architectural style present in the church of the Royal College of Corpus Christi, it was later decorated within the rules of severe Neoclassicism.

It consists of a nave covered by a half-barrel vault on pilasters and side chapels between buttresses, covered in turn by blown vaults. The dome that stands in the transept is of half orange on shells, and reconstruction of the one destroyed by a bomb in 1820. The belfry occupies a small place on the imafronte and the roof of the church. The doorway is decorated with pilasters and cornice, opening on it a niche that currently houses a modern altarpiece of tiles, in tone with the style of the temple, with the effigies of Santa Teresa de Jesús and San Juan de la Cruz.
The interior decoration of the church, very austere, is reduced to pilasters, cornices and capitals, but without notes of polychrome or gilding. The extrados of the choir vault, located at the foot of the nave, is decorated with a relief representing the coats of arms of the Order of Carmen and the College of Corpus Christi.
Of the convent building, the porticoed cloister stands out, in whose central courtyard is the plaster image of the Sacred Heart, by Francisco Cuesta López.



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