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Iglesia parroquial de San Juan y San Jaime Apóstol - Montaverner(Montaverner)

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Before it was built there was an Almohad tower and a Gothic parish of the reconquest called Santiago Apostle. Architecturally it has a nave with chapels between buttresses. In the interior of the church, and supporting the holy water font, a fragment of a Roman inscription of funerary character is preserved. The main door (linteled and with pilasters), the bell tower and the sundial stand out.

The building began to be erected in 1735, on the initiative of the parish priest Dr. Esplugues, and was completed in 1758. The bell tower was erected during the years 1758-1762 (Holy Saturday). The old church preserves the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception in neoclassical style (from the beginning of the 18th century). Among the works of interest are the neo-Byzantine style baptismal font (1909), the images of Galarza del Cristo de la Paciencia and San Blas, the image of the Virgin of Loreto (1995), the Vera Cruz (before the Spanish Civil War) and monstrance (18th century), the paintings of the Chapel of the Cristo de la Paciencia (18th century) and of the pendentives (beginning of the 20th century). Finally, the church houses the remains of the martyred priest, son of the town and parish administrator of Bélgida, the parish priest Pascual Penadés (U1936), and the tombstone of Dr. Esplugues, whose remains were desecrated in 1936, is also preserved. The Parish has the hermitage of Calvario, which is accessed by the Way of the Cross, built in 1941 and the centenary neo-Gothic hermitage of the Virgin of Loreto de Colata, built in 1906.

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