San Jacinto Parish
The fortified church
This unsuitable site, far away from the city, caused them to move in 1679 to the hermitage of Candelaria in Triana, belonging to an old hospital. A new church was built there, but it collapsed on May 30, 1730, and for this reason the current church was built, which was inaugurated on January 29, 1775. The Church, located in the neighborhood of Triana at the intersection of the streets Pagés del Corro and San Jacinto, is due to Matias de Figueroa who directed the works until 1740, date on which he abandoned them.
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In 1742 one of the vaults collapsed and in 1774 the Community declared to the ecclesiastical Chapter that the work was finished. The building fully responds to its eighteenth-century design. It has a very elongated rectangular floor plan, with three naves and a transept. The lateral naves are covered with groin vaults, replacing the high tribunes with plaster frames and paintings. The central nave is covered with a barrel vault with arches and lunettes. In the transept there is a large dome with a drum on pendentives, which is executed with ribs of double radii framed by wavy lines resting on paired Solomonic columns fluted in their lower third.
