Iglesia vieja Sabugo - Avilés, Asturias, España - This Old Church on Waymarking.com

It owes its popular name to being located in the center of the old fishing village of Sabugo, in the current Plaza del Carbayo de Avilés, outside the medieval fence that protected the town. It is a Romanesque church begun, perhaps, in the 13th century.

The temple has a single nave and a basilica plan ending in a semicircular head facing east and preceded by a straight section.

On the southern side there is a ledge doorway with three semicircular arches with dust covers and capitals that combine decorative plant motifs with human and animal figures. A tejaroz on corbels guards it.

At the foot is the main façade, which presents a projecting portal and pronounced flare, it is made up of four archivolts, in ogive, with round moldings and desornamented half-reeds, which descend in columns topped by four capitals on each side with carvings in those that combine the phytomorphic motifs, with the anthropomorphic and zoomorphic ones, being placed in cranked jambs.

The interior of the temple is a wide space with a raised tribune at the foot, two chapels on the side of the gospel and the head in a semicircle.

The building originally covered its wide nave with exposed wooden armor and the apse with a barrel vault preceded by an oven; a large pointed triumphal arch with a double thread precedes the access to the altar. These roofs changed, as a result of the reforms that took place in the XV-XVI and XVIII centuries, for which today we conserve the vault with lunettes. These interventions resulted in some loopholes being blocked, larger windows were opened in the nave, the load-bearing walls were increased and to counteract the weight of the roof, three thick buttresses or abutments were placed in the southern wall, while in the On the north side, this counteracting function was performed by three chapels, their number currently being reduced to two.

Attached to the outer base of the southern wall there is a continuous stone bench that served to accommodate, among others, the members of the mareantes' guild who met and protected under a portico or masonry council and covered with wooden armor, which was definitively withdrawn at the beginning of the 20th century, the rest stones still remaining in the walls that should have served as a support for it.

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Date the Church was built, dedicated or cornerstone laid: 01/01/1259 Age of Church building determined by?: Other reliable source Indicate the time that the primary worship service is held. List only one: 8:30 AM Street address of Church: Plaza Carbayo Avilés, asturias España 33401 Primary website for Church or Historic Church Building: [Web Link] If denomination of Church is not part of the name, please provide it here: Not listed If Church is open to the public, please indicate hours: Not listed If Church holds a weekly worship service and "all are welcome", please give the day of the week: Not listed Secondary Website for Church or Historic Church Building: Not listed

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