Church of Santa Cristina (Osma)

XVI-XVIII centuries The church of Santa Cristina stands on the right bank of the river Ucero, enlarged by the waters of the Abión that flows a few meters upstream. Its location is witness to the gentle murmur of the river, next to the ancient stone bridge, at the foot of the rock castle and under the gaze of the original Uxama Argaela. The temple has a Latin cross plan, with a single nave, a choir at the foot, a half orange dome on pendentives covering the transept and a presbytery with flat headwall. The roof of the central nave has a barrel vault with lunettes and sections separated by semicircular arches that correspond to the exterior of the buttresses. The bulk of the current temple dates from the early eighteenth century. It was designed by Domingo Zaguirre and executed by Alonso Martínez de Ochoa and Manuel de Arribas. In 1779, the building suffered a fire and restoration work was completed in 1782. From previous periods, the most outstanding feature is the Renaissance façade, from the second half of the 16th century, with two Corinthian columns before pilasters on podiums flanking a semicircular arch with the relief of the Eternal Father in the tympanum. In 1789, the Oxomense presbyter Felipe Sanz, canon of the Cathedral, requested and received the body of Santa Cristina, coming from Rome, and gave it to this church of which it is the titular and in whose main altarpiece it has been venerated since then.