TORRE DE LA IGLESIA DE LA CONCEPCIÓN

CHURCH OF OUR PRAYER OF THE CONCEPCI N. City Hall of San Crist bal de La Laguna. 2007. Technical coordination F tima Meli n Pacheco and Texts by Jos Farrujia de la Rosa, Raquel Paalmero Barreto, Ana Rosa Reyes Batista and Leticia Tejera Grim n.

The tower of the Church of Concepcion is a unique piece of the seventeenth century. Its urban position is especially careful, closing the perspective of important streets that have it in the background.

It is designed with a spirit of civil architecture, with large balconies on all floors, wrought iron sills and carpentry lost today. The tower is topped by an octagonal temple on a terrace, consisting of columns, semicircular arches and ochavada cornice. The temple lacks cover, although its stone ring finish with a box to house the enclosure in ligneous support, clearly demonstrates that it had it.

The current state is quite distorted from its original character, losing large elements that were part of its original state.

Its stability and structural behavior are good in spite of the passage of time, as it does not show transversal cracking or external signs of exhaustion.

The church lacks a frontis; the main door is extruded with two terraced columns, with Corinthian pedestals and capitals and a front n in which real weapons appear. In its outer part, the frontis behind the main chapel presents more solidity than beauty; composed of three floors with seven windows.

In the interior two rows of four columns and five arches of red stone, with pedestals and equal capitals (with less height in the central nave), divide their three ships throughout their length, appearing at their head part of the old main chapel and the new one in its background, finishing the church in the trascoro in other three chapels divided with solid pillars and arches of communication.

The entire monument is born immersed in the strong Mudejarism of the peninsular architecture of that time, which is deeply rooted in the islands and endures until it becomes a peculiar architectural form as shown in all its wooden coffered ceilings.

The church undergoes abundant reforms, the most important being the one carried out from 1776 by the architect Nicol s Eduardo, who designed a new main chapel.

Currently the architectural container that configures the church is a conglomerate of buildings belonging to few and different traces; Be exaggerated to talk about different styles. Even without taking into account these irregularities, the lack of unity in the construction can be observed, especially when examining the east side of the building; with its canvases on the wall and its irregular windows with those of ...

The two largest bells he owns today were donated in 1930 by Antonio Fernando Acosta, while the smallest and closest bell to the Plaza de Los Bolos (of the Supreme Board), is from 1730. Two of the Bells that formerly formed part of the bell tower are preserved in the tower's own premises: the largest is 1724, while the other, smaller, is 1666.