The salvaged altarpiece that shares a church with its 164-year predecessor

The salvaged altarpiece that shares a church with its 164-year predecessor

Iglesia de San Juan Bautista in Chiclana de la Frontera is normally most famous for Torcuato Cayón’s neoclassical design. By salvaging a work by Roque Balduque from its 164-year-old predecessor, it also has a story tied to that earlier church.

Iglesia de San Juan Bautista (Church of St. John the Baptist) in Chiclana de la Frontera is a Neoclassical church. Construction on an earlier building began around 1510, but it wasn't completed by that time. The original church was demolished in the 18th century. A bas-relief of the altarpiece, dated to 1552 by the sculptor Roque Balduque and the painter Andrés Ramírez, was salvaged and incorporated into the new church, designed by Torcuato Cayón and completed in 1814.

Sources: Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons

Written by Nicolo Ciampini

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