Church · Cuenca
Monasterio de la Concepción Franciscana
Today: Monasterio de la Concepción Franciscana, Cuenca
- Place
- Cuenca
- Kind
- Church
- Built
- 16th to 18th century
- What remains
- Standing
- Visiting
- Open to visit
The monastery of the Franciscan Conceptionist nuns, already standing in 1504, when Canon Alvar Pérez de Montemayor handed it over to the abbess. From the 16th-century complex survive the courtyard, the staircases and the Plateresque doorway of the church, the work of Pedro de Alviz; in the 18th century José Martín directed the new building, with a church whose high choir at the west end is resolved with an elliptical dome. The church is open for worship and can be visited; the rest is enclosed.