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Iglesia Parroquial de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción (Utiel)

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The church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción in the municipality of Utiel (Province of Valencia) is a religious building built in the second half of the 15th century in the Southern Gothic style, defined by the search for a single interior space, rectangular in shape and closed to the exterior.

This church has a single nave with chapels between interior buttresses.
The central nave is a rectangular space with five chapels between buttresses on each side and a five-sided, octagonal apse with irregular polygonal chapels on four and six sides. The nave is 23 metres high. The interior is formed by a double structure of pointed arches located on two different levels. The lower one marks the access to the side chapels and starts at the buttress corbels; the voussoirs are made of carved stone ashlars.

The second level marks the start of the roof structure, and is formed by groined pillars, attached to the abutments, which rise up to the start of the vaults. These pillars have semicircular bases decorated with a moulding, and capitals supported by two angels holding shields. From these capitals come the pointed former arches of a simpler design than those that close the chapels and the arches that make up the vault.

The vault has a very singular design, as the main arches are semicircular instead of the usual pointed ones. These vaults have transversal ribs, terceletes, which start from the keystone of the perpendicular arch that separates the vaults; these transversal ribs are not torsal but grooved.

At the foot of the nave, the choir loft was built in 1811, on three vaulted ceilings supported by arches between pilasters with Ionic strung capitals.

It also has a bell tower and a communion chapel and sacristy.

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