Iglesia San Saturnino – Architecture

Construction is associated to architect Theodore Burchard, who imbued the temple with a pronounced neo-Gothic influence. It has a 3-entrance porch, one for each inner nave. These entrances are decorated in their upper side with sets of stained glass windows, every one of them crowned with pointed arches, a hallmark of this style, which also reinforce and decorate the large windows around the building outwards, as niches. Façade is divided, in these three sections, into fasciculated pillar sets, simulating a support for the upper part, the bell tower, also decorated with pointed arches. The central section is decorated with architectural geometric elements and a central pointed arch, which has in its mid section a 4-sided ornament inside a circumference, imitating classical rose windows typical of Gothic construction.

Inside, the temple is composed of a three-nave basilica, all of them of a similar height, divided by arcades containing fasciculated pillar sets, also typical, entirely decorated. From this point, ribs or nerves originate. Those ribs comprise the quadripartite rib vault structure crowning the ceiling. Lateral naves are decorated with beautiful stained glass windows on the walls. Central nave ends up in the south area in a hexagonal apse also decorated with windows accompanying the central Christ image.