In the neighborhood of Campanar, former municipality integrated into the city in 1897, is this church.
The parish was established in 1507 on an old hermitage. In 1603 a small chapel was inaugurated on the occasion of the discovery of the Virgin of Bell Tower in 1596. It is at the end of the seventeenth century when the extension of the presbytery, the construction of the trasagrario and the new floor of the Chapel of the Communion began, following the postulates of the Baroque. This renovation also corresponds to the beginning of the construction of the bell tower. The trasagrario has a rectangular floor plan, with direct access through two side doors next to the main altar. The temple is covered by a barrel vault, divided into three sections by four sash arches, which give rise in its center to a unique blown vault. Its walls are decorated with magnificent frescoes, attributed to Dionisio Vidal.

Finally, in 1741, work began on the completion of the bell tower, contracted with the master builder José Mínguez; Whose factory, of considerable structural proportions, exemplifies a new typology of bell towers characterized by the development of a powerful stepped finish of two bodies with link fins and crowned by a chapitel of glazed tiles. It was at this time that the façade must have been reformed, topped by a powerful mixtilini profile of evident Seventeenth-century tradition, in connection with certain decorative elements of the Chapel of the Virgin. Subsequently the church has been repristinated with stucco and gilding that give it a certain eighteenth-century character. The bell tower was restored, with recovery of its original chromaticism at the end of the 80s of the twentieth century

Integral parts:
Main nave, side chapels, trasagrario, communion chapel, bell tower, main façade with doorway and sides



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Parish of Our Lady of Mercy,
Plaza Iglèsia, 11
46015 Valencia