La Doma, Romanesque-Gothic church in La Garriga, Spain
La Doma is a Romanesque-Gothic complex in La Garriga comprising the former parish church of Sant Esteve, the domeria and the cemetery. The church has a rectangular plan with three naves and no apse: the central Romanesque nave has a pointed vault, while the 16th-century right nave has three bays with ribbed vaults whose corbels are carved with angel heads. The access portal is a Gothic work by Bertran Felip finished in 1563.
The church first appears in written records in 966 during the feudal period in Catalonia. By the 16th century, a bell tower was constructed at the eastern side, reflecting changes in how the community used the religious space.
The name La Doma comes from the three domers, priests who served the church. The main altar holds a Gothic retable of Saint Stephen made between 1492 and 1500, attributed to the Huguet-Vergós workshop. A 17th-century bench was used by the town's bailiff and jurors, and an alabaster holy water font from the 15th century survives.
The cemetery entrance is separate from the church entrance: a 1905 gate by Joaquim Raspall, a segmental brick arch with a small cornice topped by a cross. Look for the neogothic Fargas pantheon and the Maria Esturgó pantheon, Raspall's only funerary work, with wrought iron on the door and side candelabra.
The bell tower reuses the round-arched openings of the earlier Romanesque bell gable, and a comunidor, a square-roofed structure on pillars for blessing the fields, stands at its south-western end. Both date from the 16th century.
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