San Pedro, Romanesque Revival church in La Felguera, Spain
San Pedro is a church in La Felguera built in the Neo-Romanesque style with a three-nave layout. The interior is lit by a large dome lamp with hundreds of bulbs, while the entrance features carved wooden doors and decorative arched columns.
The building opened in 1954 after recovering from damage sustained during the Spanish Civil War and was constructed on the site of an older chapel. The reconstruction was necessary to restore the former religious site for the community.
The church is dedicated to Saint Peter because La Felguera has held fiestas in his honour since 1908; the change of patronage from Santa Eulalia was made official in 1971. A statue of Saint Peter in a niche is carried in procession every 29 June. The interior paintings interpreting Asturian pre-Romanesque and Byzantine styles were designed by Magín Berenguer and executed by three Langreo painters: Rico, Lafuente and Calderón.
The church stands beside the Parque Dolores Duro, at an old crossroads in La Felguera. Enter through the main portal with its carved wooden door and multiple archivolts; the left facade has a second portal with a Pantocrator tympanum, and the bell tower is attached on that side. The basilical interior has three naves, so allow time to walk the side chapels and the main nave.
The bells of the church destroyed in the Civil War were melted down and buried in the foundations of the 1950s building, together with the cross from its facade. Part of the earlier stonework was reused in the new walls. The poet Álvaro Cunqueiro, on visiting, said it had the bearing of a cathedral rather than a parish church.
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