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San Roque Parish Church is located in the Plaza Mártires del Pueblo in the Sevillian town of Las Cabezas de San Juan.

The church was built in 1955-1967, on the site of the old Shrine to San Roque.

This 19th-century neoclassical church was built over an earlier 14th-century temple (Shrine to Our Lady of Solitude), demolished in 1800 by the Count of Altamira. The church has a rectangular plan, a central nave and two aisles. The central nave, which is larger than the aisles, is covered with barrel vaults and the aisles with groin vaults.

The church dates from the mid-17th century, the name of San Marcos being clearly linked to the devotions of the 4th Count of Ureña, Don Juan Téllez Girón (1624-1656). 

The Convent, located on the Cerro de San Cristóbal, was founded by the second Marquis of Estepa, Juan Bautista Centurión, just four years after the foundation of the Santa Clara Convent.

This late 15th-century Mudejar building features some Romanesque elements, such as thick walls.

The transversal arches and side entrance were added in the mid-16th century.

The tower’s bell chamber was built in the Baroque period. The entrance has a modern lintelled porch covered by a groin vault supported by columns.

The cityscape is dominated by the Church and its 18th-century bell tower, destroyed during the Spanish Civil War. The Church is the seat of the town’s patron saint, Nuestra Señora de la Fuente Clara and the Easter confraternities.

It is the oldest temple on Isla Mayor. This iconic building in the King Alfonso XIII hamlet has a single nave and an 18-metre bell tower. The temple built in the Andalusian style with Arabic tiles and bricks has a portico and a tower inspired by the San Roque Church in Seville.