Our Lady of the Rosary Parish Church

The current parish church of Nuestra Señora del Rosario was founded in 1736 as a simple hermitage by Archbishop Mayoral. It was already extended as a parish in 1845 with a project by the architect Joaquín María Calvo with the original and economical layout of two naves with four sections. In 1907 the Chapel of the Communion, work of the architect Vicente Ferrer, was added. The project involves a classicist court building, adjacent to the presbytery of the church with which it communicates by means of a semicircular arch. In 1942, as part of the achievements of Devastated Regions, the architects Carlos Soria and Mauro Lleó extended the head and rebuilt the façade with a baroque finish with a mixed profile.

The church has Herrerian influences and even details of incipient neoclassicism, although the façade is finished off with wavy biston of Baroque flavor. At the head, the series of arches surrounding it forms like a narrow ambulatory. On the right, at transept level, it opens onto the wide and deep Chapel of the Communion, in turn, with small side chapels and the largest in the background. The fresco by José Ros Ferrandis, painted in 1945, is noteworthy, located above the “oven” vault that covers the main chapel and the presbytery.

In the surroundings of the temple there is a group of houses from the end of the s. XIX and early XX, typical of the area of the maritime villages, which reflect in their facades the popular interpretation of the Valencian architecture of the time.

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