Iglesia de Santa María de Melque

Today: Iglesia de Santa María de Melque, San Martín de Montalbán

Place: Santa María de Melque (San Martín de Montalbán)
Kind: Church
Built: c. 668 to 729
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Not checked

A cross-plan church with vaults and horseshoe arches, built with a technique inherited from late Roman architecture, in which a large arcosolium in the south arm suggests it began as a mausoleum. Its date is disputed: radiocarbon on the original plaster gives 668 to 729, and those who date it to the first half of the 8th century read it as proto-Mozarabic rather than Visigothic. A tower was later raised over its dome, and still stands.

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