Tower and apse of the church of La Asunción de Nuestra Señora, Terrer
CURRENT PROTECTION STATUS: ACI
TYPE OF ASSET: Property
CATEGORY: Religious
ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Mudejar and Baroque
CONSTRUCTION DATE:
The church was constructed in the 14th and 15th centuries. The Mudejar tower has been dated to c. 1400.
In the 18th century, the church was remodeled in the Baroque style, the height of the bell tower was raised and the tower spire was added.
The tower, which dates from the early 15th century, was erected adjacent to the south side of the east end of the present-day parish church. It stands, sturdy and lavishly decorated, overlooking canals and fields. There may be ties to the patronage of Benedict XIII, Papa Luna, related to this tower.
It has a square floor plan and the interior is divided into two levels: the lower level has a Hispano-Muslim structure with an outer tower wrapped around a central buttress. The upper level is hollow, intended to house the belfry. The tower is topped by a spire with a mixtilinear outline from the Baroque era.
All the ornamentation is concentrated in the lower section of the exterior, featuring protruding brick motifs, and lacking only the ceramic detail work (there is documentary evidence proving that it did exist at some point). In this case, domestic ceramic dishes were reused to provide the ornamentation.
Interventions
Projects and interventions
Declarations
On December 14, 2001, the 25th Official Session of the World Heritage Committee held in Helsinki (Finland) resolved to recognize and declare the Mudejar architecture of Aragon as World Heritage.
On August 14, 2002, the Department of Culture and Tourism Order dated July 22, 2002 was published in the Official Gazette of Aragon, declaring the tower and apse of the church of La Asunción de Nuestra Señora in Terrer, in the province of Zaragoza, a Listed Asset of Aragonese Cultural Heritage.
Bibliography
BORRÁS GUALIS, G.M. Arte Mudéjar Aragonés, CAMPZAR y Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos Técnicos y Aparejadores de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, 1985.
SANMIGUEL MATEO, A. Torres de ascendencia islámica en las comarcas de Calatayud y Daroca. Aragón (España). Estructuras, decoración y relaciones con otras torres islámicas de Oriente y Occidente, Centro de Estudios Bilibilitanos (Institución Fernando el Católico), Calatayud, 1998, pp. 292-295.
SANMIGUEL MATEO, AGUSTÍN. “El arte mudéjar”, en Comarca de la Comunidad de Calatayud, Colección Territorio 20, Zaragoza, 2005.
TRASOBARES RUIZ, VICTORIA E., RUIZ BAZÁN, IRENE., “Territorio Mudéjar. Las torres, técnica y creatividad”, La magia de viajar por Aragón, número 126, julio – agosto 2021, pp. 16-23.
Appendixes
Tower and apse of the church of La Asunción de Nuestra Señora, Terrer
Plaza Bajo el Olmo, 1
50293 Terrer (Zaragoza)