The church with a street passing through its tower

The Iglesia de Santa María la Mayor in Arévalo is a Mudéjar work built between the end of the 12th and the start of the 13th centuries. It sits within a monumental complex that includes the Iglesia de San Martín and the Casa de los Sexmos. The church features a single nave, a semicircular apse, and a tower at its base.

Inside, a barrel vault leads to a quarter-sphere vault in the apse, while the nave is covered by a simple par y nudillo structure. The most notable interior features are the 14th-century paintings in the header and the woodwork of the choir. These paintings depict a Pantocrátor surrounded by a mandorla, with the Celestial Jerusalem at his feet. He blesses with his right hand and holds a sphere that may allude to the universe, crowned with a cross with his left.

The tower has a square plan and rises through a succession of masonry courses reinforced at the corners with bricks. On the exterior, the lower body of the tower is crossed by an arch, under which Calle Santa María passes. The exterior also features a semicircular apse decorated with three bodies of blind arches and a straight section decorated with three bodies of blind arches in a grid pattern.

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