Location:

Plaza de España (at the front of the Town Hall)

41309, La Rinconada (Seville)

Telephone number: (+34) 955 797 833

The church is a Mudéjar-style building from the 15th century, featuring a rectangular plan and a semicircular apse. It has a nave and two side aisles of three bays each. The pointed arches are supported by granite and marble Roman columns, with capitals and bases in a variety of ornamental styles. The central nave supports three coffered Mudéjar ceilings covered with tie beams. However, lean-to roofs covered the two side aisles.

The apse is off-centre regarding the central nave and is covered by rib vaults. Outside, battlements topped these vaults. The 15th-century left side aisle façade is made of bricks and decorated with two pointed archivolts, while the façade of the church west end is contemporary. The bell tower, which dates from the 18th century, is placed to the left of the church’s west-end façade. The sacristy and the church facilities are from the same century. Furthermore, two Visigothic plates with geometric motifs decorate the left-side aisle outside the wall.

Both the large main altarpiece and the sculptures that decorated it date from the first third of the 18th century. In the central niche of the altarpiece is the sculpture of “Nuestra Señora de las Nieves” from the same period. On both sides of the altarpiece, the 18th-century forged iron pulpits are located.

On the left side aisle apse there is another altarpiece from the late 18th century decorated with a mid-18th century sculpture of “San José con el niño” (Saint Joseph with the Christ Child). In addition, in the central niche and in the side niches there are sculptures of “El Resucitado” (The Resurrection) from the first half of the 17th century and of “San Antonio con el Niño” (Saint Anthony with the Christ Child) from the 18th century. A sculpture of “San Juan Evangelista” (Saint John the Evangelist) from the 16th century crowned the upper part of the altarpiece. An altarpiece from the first part of the 18th century stands on the wall, adorned with sculptures forming the scene of the Crucifixion. The sculptures of “La Virgen y San Juan” (The Virgin and Saint John) are from the same period as the altarpiece and the Crucified Christ sculpture, dated around 1500. Following, there is a frame altarpiece from the mid-18th century, whose painting represents the “Ánimas del Purgatorio” (Souls of Purgatory).

At the foot of the central nave, there is an altarpiece decorated with sculptural elements from the first and second half of the 17th century. On the left side niche, there is a sculpture of “San Antonio con el Niño” (Saint Anthony with the Christ Child) from the third quarter of the 17th century, and in the right-side niche, there is a sculpture of “San Buenaventura” (Saint Bonaventure) from the same period. Moreover, in the central niche there is a repolychrome image of a “candelero del Nazareno” (wooden dress carving of the Christ), which is from the 18th century. In the second tier of this altarpiece, there are paintings of “Santa Águeda” (Saint Agatha), “Santa Lucía” (Saint Lucy), and “Estigmatización de San Francisco” (Saint Francis receives the Stigmata). A sculpture of “El Padre Eterno” (The Eternal Father) from the 17th century crowned the upper part of the altarpiece.

On the right-side aisle apse, there is a restorated altarpiece with sculptural elements from the 17th and 18th centuries. In the centre niche of this altarpiece, there is an “Inmaculada” (Inmmaculate) sculpture from the 18th century. In addition, in the side niches there are sculptures of “Santa Catalina” (Saint Catherine) and “Santa María Magdalena” (Saint Mary Magdalene) from the mid-17th century. In the centre niche of the second tier, there is a sculpture of “San Juan Bautista” (Saint John the Baptist). Moreover, on both sides of this sculpture are sculptures of angels from around 1500. In the Blessed Sacrament Chapel, there is another altarpiece decorated with various sculptures, all from 1800. In the side niches, the sculptures of “Santo Domingo” (Saint Dominic) and “San Francisco” (Saint Francis) are located, and in the upper part, the sculpture of “La Virgen del Carmen” (The Carmelite Virgin) crowns the altarpiece..

In the central niche of the altarpiece is the sculpture of “La Inmaculada” (The Immaculate), also from the same period. If we glance back at the wall, there is the processional monstrance, which is made of polychromatic wood and dates from around 1800. At the foot of the processional monstrance, there is a restorated altarpiece decorated with neoclassic elements and the sculpture of “San Antonio con el Niño” (Saint Anthony with the Infant Christ) from the end of the 18th century. In the central niche of this altarpiece, there is an image of a “candelero de la Dolorosa” (wooden dress carving of the Virgin Mary), which is contemporary. At the foot of the nave, and at the top of the wall, is the organ loft from the 18th century. This organ loft is decorated with dragon-shaped wooden corbels.

Inside the sacristy, there are four paintings on a panel dated around 1540. In these works of the painter Juan de Zamora, the Evangelists are represented. Among the goldsmith items that the church has are: a silver-gilt ostensory from the first third of the 17th century; a silver peace offering decorated with the image of the Immaculate between Solomonic columns, which is dated around 1700; a silver chalice from the mid-18th century, whose decoration was made by the Andalusian silversmiths Caro and V. Gargallo; another chalice from the last third of the same century, even if its decoration was made by the silversmith Castro native from Córdoba; and, lastly, a silver embossed chalice from around 1850, whose decoration is from the Sevillian silversmiths Padilla and Rojas.

Bibliographic Reference

Guía artística de Sevilla y su Provincia, de Alfredo J. Morales, María Jesús Sanz, Juan Miguel Serrera, Enrique Valdivieso; Excma. Diputación de Sevilla; Sección Arte; Serie 1ª, número 15; 1ª edición 1981, reimpresión 1989.