Iglesia de Santa Lucía - Frailes
Iglesia de Santa Lucía
In 1550, Pedro de Valencia built a small chapel at his own expense, on a site that he acquired from Bartolomé Fernández de Montemolín, and paid for the image of Santa Lucía. Teacher Manuel García del Álamo built the altarpiece, which has now disappeared. In 1778, shortly before it was erected as a parish, the baptismal font was brought from the Alcalá de la Mota church. In the eighteenth century, the church started to support the parish of Santa María la Mayor in Alcalá la Real (1778). Adaptations were made to the building by Jacinto Pérez, which consisted of lengthening the nave and building a main chapel. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the church was dedicated to the Virgen de los Dolores, but the dimensions of the building were not sufficient for the number of residents. It had an altarpiece made up of several paintings and presided over by a carved image of the Dolorosa, attributed to José de Mora. At the end of the twentieth century, with the help of the parish priest, Alberto Jaime Martínez Pulido, the reformed building visible today was constructed. The magnificent coffered ceiling was made in Atarfe (Granada) in the ‘Los Tres Juanes’ Workshop. Among the oldest elements, the bell tower still stands out, with three bells bearing the sonorous names of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores, San Rafael and Virgen de las Mercedes.
Location
Located on Calle de la Caridad.