Iglesia Antigua de Nuestra Señora de la Consolación

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Next to the disappeared Castillo de la Tercia, at the end of the 15th century, the old church of Nuestra Señora María de la Consolación was built, which was to serve as the castle's chapel.

It has a single nave with a rectangular floor plan and a Latin cross shape, flanked by side chapels and presided over by a presbytery without an apse. The temple is covered by a Mudejar coffered ceiling with a simple pair and knuckle structure, with five braces decorated with lacework that rest on corbels and that, in the basement, rest on a cross bridge supported by an Ionic column and a wooden footing decorated with large acanthus leaves.

In this line of austerity, a century later, the side portal was built: a lintel span with Tuscan pilasters and devoid of decorative elements. During the civil war the wooden altarpiece presided over by the Lord of the Waters was destroyed and in 1949 another one chaired by the Lord of the Chapel was placed in its place, the name by which this church is also called.

The current bell tower, which replaces a belfry that collapsed at the beginning of the 20th century, was built in 1956-57 on a square base with a prismatic shape, with a first body that presents on its faces oculi arranged vertically in the reed and framed by a common molding; the second body, smaller, octagonal, with pinnacles at the corners and pairs of semicircular arches for the bells, is topped by a pyramidal spire.