Monuments

Archbishop Juan de Ribera ordered in 1574 that masses in Antella be celebrated in the town’s church, which was attached to that of Cárcer. Thus, a chaplaincy dedicated to the Immaculate Conception was founded, becoming the first church dedicated to the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.

The church was built on the site of the old Mosque and in 1575 it became an independent parish. The building has a single entrance door, it belongs to the Tuscan architectural order with some small carving cutouts, it has a single nave, it has four arcades on one side, with the main altar and eight side chapels.

Inside, the church has a parallelogram shape and through open arches in its thick walls, the four chapels on each side communicate with each other, reaching the Tabernacle chapel on one side and the parish office and sacristy on the other side.

The bell tower was built in 1782, it is square and is made up of four quarters, and the bells are in the fourth quarter.

Inside the church we find later religious images in 1940, since in the Spanish civil war, all religious objects and images were looted and burned in the square in front of the church, except for the image of Christ of the Agony (Cristo de la Agonía) which was broken in the weir and thrown into the river at the House of the floodgates of the Acequia Real del Júcar (Casa de las Compuertas de la Acequia Real del Júcar).

Photography: J. A. Tovar