Santa Marina Church

The temple was built in Islamic times, and the first construction of two of its side chapels can be dated around 1265. At the beginning of the 14th century the tower would be built and at the beginning or middle of that same century the main body would be erected. However, the first reliable news of this temple date from 1356, because in that year, when Pedro I was King of Castile, an earthquake forced the rebuilding of the temple. This church will be transformed in the eighteenth century, when several chapels are rehabilitated, which would house at least four brotherhoods: the Sacramental and Souls, the Mortaja, the Divine Shepherdess and Our Lady of the Banishment.

It consists of 3 covers: The main one is of stone, a pointed arch of eight archivolts, consisting in the last one a decoration with diamond points, zigzag and varied sculptures. The doorway of the Gospel wall is a pointed arch with little decoration. The one of the Epistle is built with brick forming a body with three pointed arches. This church has an octagonal apse, with buttresses and geminate pointed windows, combining an architecture of elegant beauty. The tower is attached to the church at the foot of the Gospel nave. It is outlined as a Mudejar tower with a square floor plan and built with brick. It presents characteristic poly-lobed arches on the hollows and double upper lacing, typical of the Almohad decoration, and a top of staggered battlements of coronation made after the restoration carried out by José Gestoso in the year 1885. The interior of the temple is divided into three naves separated by arcades of pointed arches in brick, which are supported by cruciform pillars. The central nave is the widest both in height and width, and ends in a polygonal apse, also presenting lateral chapels. The roof of the temple has three different parts. The central nave is covered with a modern coffered ceiling of good workmanship. The lateral naves are covered with a canopy. Finally, the chapels are covered with vaults on trumpets. The vault decorated with brick lacerías and trumpets with plasterwork in the Chapel of the Virgin of Love, and the vault with decoration of gores in plaster that covers the Chapel used as Tabernacle stand out. Bien de Interés Cultural, the Church of Santa Marina in Seville.