The Board of Young Workers was created in 1884 by the master carpenter Gregorio Gea Miquel in order to give cultural and religious instruction on holidays to children in need. From the beginning it received the support of the Economic Society of Friends of the Country, Schools of Sant Josep and Gran Associació de la Mare de Déu dels Desamparados.

The Board of Trustees set up its headquarters in an old house on Landerer Street opposite a corner that still bears this inscription: “1799 Plaça de la Valldigna“. Its façade preserves a stone voussoired portico, with heraldic shield, which gives access to a patio with two segmental arches. It is curious a colonette and two small attached arches that have been embedded in the wall of the first floor that overlooks the courtyard, as a possible reminder of the previous construction.

Among the elements of the current building we must consider the chapel and the small theater, of some artistic interest. The first is a small and narrow room, voussoired, with a copulette on shells and two barrel vaults with lunettes on each side, in the presbytery, this is separated from the rest of the oratory by two iron colonettes supporting three arches, the central one peralted and the sides lowered. The decoration is rococo with plaster rockery. The dome has a fresco painting of Our Lady of the Angels by Vicente Gay Preface. The plaster set is by Francisco Monleón Zuñiga and the gilding is by Juan Frucio.

The images are modern protruding that of Our Lady of Angels and St. Louis, which is quite dignified, and presides over the only altar, next to it are two shelves with St. John Berchmans and St. Stanislaus of Kotska, in polychrome wood.

The theater offers a modernist air due to the garlands that decorate it, being also interesting the exposed iron columns, some of which are lined with cement, columns from a ship affected, by sinking or rather captured, by the war of 1914 -1918.


Dades bàsiques

Direcció:

Landerer Street, 5 - bajo
46003 Valencia
Telephone: 963 912 442
E-mail: info@escalantecentreteatral.com

Transport:

Bus: 5B

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