Parish Church

The Parish Church of Nuestra Señora del Collado de Segura de la Sierra was built in the 16th century on the site of the old Romanesque temple. The Napoleonic troops, in their flight to France, set fire to it and it was restored between 1814 and 1817 by the architect Sebastián de Azcuaga. Its only nave is rectangular, its roof is vaulted although somewhat flat and a cornice runs along the entire interior, which is of plastered and whitewashed masonry. At the feet it has a mixtilinear headwall with a porthole. Three chapels mark its floor plan. The next to the Gospel opens with arch of average point, it is covered with half a barrel and a flared window gives light to him; in her polychrome images of carving are guarded whose iconographies correspond with the Holy Burial - a Christ Recumbent attributed to Gregorio Hernández-, San José, the Virgin Dolorosa and the Immaculate one. The chapel on the Epistle side, also Renaissance, has a similar structure and its access arch is of ashlar. Finally, the chapel of the Virgen de la Peña presents the peculiarity of the coat of arms in the keystone of the semicircular arch and, in the center and on a brick pillar, it shelters a piece of great artistic value, the Virgen de la Peña with the Child in her arms, a Gothic sculpture of the XIV century, of undulating line, in alabaster, originally polychrome, coming from the monastery of the same name. On the exterior, its tower stands out, built with masonry and corners of ashlar masonry arranged in a rope and chalk pattern. Of quadrangular plant, it presents a first body with loopholes and a second body for bells, covered with an octagonal pyramid on which there is a wrought iron cross. The two doorways open with semicircular arches on imposts and one of them has a coat of arms in the keystone of the arch with a parchment cartouche and the cross of Santiago, while the other has a cherub in the keystone and allegorical figures in the spandrels.