Church of the Assumption (Andilla)

The parish church of La Asunción is located in the municipality of Andilla, in the province of Valencia. It is a religious building of Gothic origin, but benefited from successive improvements from the late fifteenth century to the eighteenth century. Of these, the original main door, one of the first manifestations in Valencian lands of the purest Italian Renaissance of the middle of the XV century, stands out the magnificent main altar of the end of the XVI century, of which today only the paintings of the doors that remain painted by Ribalta at the beginning of the 17th century and the decoration of the seventeenth century typical of the Valencian Baroque of this time. Description The temple is of the Valencian type of gothic factory with chapels in its five sections between buttresses and crucería vaults, and polygonal presbytery of three sides covered with vault of converging nerves in five florones. The lateral chapels are covered with semicupulillas on oval drums in the interior and covered with blue tile enamelled in blue.

The bell tower is classicist and Herrerian style, as well as the imafronte added with a central pinnacle and thick molding around the hidden tympanum, on another previous work.

Its exterior walls are of masonry, although next to its Renaissance doors is used sillar rig.

One of these covers located at the height of the second section, presents a schematic scheme between pilasters and brackets between jambs and lintel, ending in a mixtiline pediment. The other doorway, at the foot of the temple, is covered with a vaulted edifices with coats and tympanum with venera polychrome that serves as a frame for an image of Mary. It is of note the decoration of medallions and bows. Both covers are early manifestations of the Valencian renaissance of the first decades of the 16th century. Bibliography

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