Description
In the steep "Cuesta de las Monjas," Ramón y Cajal street, Villacarillo is located the church of Santa Isabel de los Angeles. The building attached to the temple was a closing convent until 1737, a public prison during the French occupation and, from 1884, a hospital to which the services of the former San Lorenzo Hospital were transferred. Today it houses several municipal units.
Its construction seems to start around 1576, and so the details and style place it in the late 16th and early 17th century. The plant is one ship (living room) with a high choir at the end and the vaults on the deck are half-canyon. The breasts of this dome have frescoes attributed to the village of Escudero de la Torre. The golden altarpiece has an 18th-century salomonic columns. The facade is made of stone with irregular armchairs with a simple three-body slate that rises at the northwest angle of it. The cover, attributed to the architect Juan de Aranda and Salazar (Master Major of the Cathedral of Jaén and continuator of Vandelvira), reigns an elegant classicism with a hornacino in which is found the stone image of Santa Isabel, the church holder. In this church, on August 25, 1812, the solemn act of swearing of the new Constitution of Cadiz, "La Pepa," was held.
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