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The Church of San Juan Bautista. EXPLORED NOVEMBER 10 2015 (HIGHEST #169)

The church of San Juan Bautista, in Coin ( Malaga province , Spain ), was built by decree of Juana in 1489 and responds to a basilica scheme. It has three separate arches in origin targeted ships that after the reform of the eighteenth century became midpoint, which rest on thick stone columns of smooth wood with hybrid flavor capitals Moorish . The nave, wider and higher, covered with a barrel vault hiding the primitive Mudejar. The side, lower in height, communicating with its headwaters in presbytery by two smaller arches. These ships have so lintel covers, except the two chapels of the header whose floors are covered with square vaults.

 

Both covers the soffit of the arches are decorated with plaster polychrome. The choir, located at the foot, is supported by two arches between piers and half columns. The presbytery is a rectangular area, raised on stands, covered by a rich diamond alfarje on fallopian troughs with polychrome richly profiles. The triumphal arch has, in the soffit and in the spandrels, plasterwork decoration with rocks and fallen leaves that extend the pilasters. This decoration is applied too exuberantly in the side walls of the chapel, on the arches that communicate with the side and especially at the top which is arranged around the oculi, by cut plates that end in a clumsy cherubs colonial flavor. At the foot of the presbytery of variegated marble pulpit stands with the arms of Bishop Eulate and Santa Cruz, under whose patronage was held in the mid eighteenth century.

 

From Wikipedia

 

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