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Built by Diego Perez Alcaraz between 1604 and 1617 and financed by the IV Countess of Castellar, Doña Beatriz Ramirez de Mendoza, with the purpose of locating in this a community of Mercedarian friars. Currently, the cloister and staircase of the Convent are preserved, and the Church, which has the choir and the belfry of the bell tower added later, in addition to the High Altarpiece is not the original plasterwork, but is a piece in wood by the Sevillian carver Juan Cano made in 1762.
The door of the convent church is linteled, flanked by angled pilasters with upper architrave, frieze and cornice. It reflects a great sobriety, within the purist phase of the Baroque in which it was reformed (completed in 1776).
The cloister of the convent has four fronts with six Doric pillars each, which are joined by semicircular arches. The galleries of the cloister are covered with half-barrel vaults with lunettes, which are supported by arches, except for the four vertices (of the cistern type). The lower floor is separated from the first floor by an overhanging frieze and an architrave decorated with drops. The upper floor consists of alternating balconies and canvases.
The convent church has a single nave covered with a barrel vault with lunettes and a lowered half-orange dome in the presbytery, which on the outside has a gabled roof. In the vestibule there is a chapel where the titular of the Brotherhood of Our Father Jesus Nazareno is located. At the foot of the nave is the choir loft.
Days and times of masses:
Wednesday 21:00h
Sunday 21:00h
