Saint Francis of Betanzos.

Its construction is due to Count Fernán Pérez de Andrade in 1387. In the XIXth century, it was abandoned after the disentailment and was exempted from an auction of the ecclesiastic possessions, becoming municipal property. The Franciscans reoccupied it in 1914.

It is the most interesting Franciscan Gothic shrine in Galicia. It was declared a National Monument in 1919. It has a Latin cross layout with a single long nave and transverse arches with the wooden sills of the roof directly supported on them. The central area of the transept is also covered with wood. The projecting arms of the same have lancet cannon vaults.

The altarpiece, of polygonal layout, with wide side walls and capping formed by five narrow and high straight sections between the angled buttresses, is covered with a fan-like rib vault in between which four vertical sections are born, fret by very high windows that are divided by fine mullions, the center one having a rosette up high.  

   

   

Dpto. de Composición.  Universidade da Coruña.