Templete de San Jerónimo, Gothic-Mudejar temple in San Jerónimo district, Seville, Spain
The Templete de San Jerónimo is a Gothic structure with Mudejar features located at the intersection of a road and railway tracks in Seville. The building showcases pointed arches with diamond tips and is supported by semi-columns with muqarnas capitals that hold cross vaults.
The chapel appeared inside another building demolished in 1914. Diego Angulo Íñiguez described and documented it, dating it to the late 15th century under the Catholic Monarchs, in the Mudejar Gothic style then current in western Andalusia. It stood beside the royal road linking Seville and Córdoba.
Locals in the neighbouring San Jerónimo district call the chapel "el santo negro" (the black saint) after the protective dark paint on the cast-iron Sacred Heart that has stood on the pedestal since the 1920s. The original image was probably a Saint Onofre or a marble roadside cross like the one at Cruz del Campo.
The structure stands at a traffic intersection with railway tracks nearby and can be viewed from the street. The site underwent complete restoration in 2013 and is now in good structural condition.
The roof of the chapel is topped with a double papal cross that originally came from a watchtower of the San Jerónimo de Buenavista monastery. This unusual architectural element tells of the intricate connections between different religious sites in the region.
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