The Parish Church of Santa María del Alcor is located in one of the highest points of the town, in the historic center.
It belongs to the Sevillian Mudejar style and can be dated to the end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th century. It is possibly built on the remains of a Franciscan hermitage and a Muslim marabout.
The building has suffered many vicissitudes throughout history, such as a fire in the 17th century, the Lisbon earthquake in 1755, an expansion in the 18th century, looting during the Civil War…
The church has a floor plan with three naves (the central one twice as large as the lateral ones) separated by cruciform pillars, on which rest semicircular arches with alfiz, and a polygonal chevet crowned with a Renaissance dome; the roof, on the other hand, is resolved by a very simple coffered ceiling.
In the interior, at the foot, it has a low choir or sotocoro with a rococo choir stalls. In the presbytery stands the main altarpiece, recently restored, neoclassical style, with three streets with two bodies each, on a huge bench and crowned by a cornice, presided by the image of the patron saint of the town, Santa Maria del Alcoronada, and the Lignum Crucis above; on the sides of the altarpiece are two huge canvases with paintings of the seventeenth century Venetian influence, representing St. Catherine and St. Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata. On the Gospel side, the Chapel of Christ of Love, the oldest part of the church, a Renaissance altarpiece (presided by St. Jude Thaddeus), the Sacristy, with a carved wooden chest of drawers from the early eighteenth century, and the Sacramental Chapel, with a neoclassical altarpiece presided by the image of the Virgin of Sorrows, stand out. On the epistle side, there is the Renaissance altarpiece of St. Joseph, the Chapel that houses in niches the images of Our Father Jesus Captive and the Virgin of Bitterness, a Chapel with the Heart of Jesus in a neo-baroque altarpiece and a neoclassical altarpiece that is presided over by the image of the Virgin of Carmen.
Outside It has straight and staggered profiles with great sobriety, gabled roof in the central nave and a water in the lateral ones, the hemispherical vault of the presbytery is covered with a dome, and the bell tower is typical of those of the second half of the eighteenth century in the area, with two pilasters on each side of the bell openings. The tower with the bell tower is crowned by the beautiful weathervane of St. Michael the Archangel.