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SAINT ANTONÍ MÀRTIR PAROCHIAL CHURCH

In the highest part of the village, on the rock of the mountain and under the previous Arab mosque, in 1329 was built the church of la Font d'en Carròs, in gothic style and dedicated to Sant Antoní Màrtir. Between centuries XVII and XVIII, this church had his first widening, opening the lateral walls. Then, renaissance style side chapels were built with their respective domes.

It is a church structured in 6 sections with chapels between the buttresses. The access of the building is through the main door at the feet of the nave. The central nave is Gothic style and it is covered with powerful pointed arches that support the Gothic cross.

In the 17th century, this church had its first widening, opening the lateral walls for the construction, between the buttresses, of the Renaissance-style side chapels covered with four-point turns.

In 1792, the square bell tower was built with a height of 45m. This is a reference element which defines the silhouette of the village to be a vertical structure located at the highest point of the village and that can be seen from the distance.

In the year 1890, an important reform was made, collapsing the abbey house, to build the Chapel of the “Santísimo Crist de l'Empar”; although, with this reform it lost all its primitive old gothic air. The chapel of “la Verge María del Remei”, patron saint of the town, is also moved to its current place. Originally, this chapel occupied the same place as today at the main door. We can still appreciate the riches of the baroque dome, on the roof of the current heart, located above the door. We will also find the following chapels dedicated to: “La Verge María dels Dolors”, “La Purísima”, “Verge María del Pilar”, “Verge María de Roser”, “Cor de Jesús”, “Sant Josep”, “Sants Abdó i Senén”, “Verge María del Carme” and the Chapel of “el Crist de l'Empar”.

In the church are deposited the two sepulchral vessels of the 14th century belonging to the Carròs family (gentlemen of the Barony of Rebollet), which were found casually by a neighbour in the year 1747 among the ruins of the Castell de Rebollet. These are the tombs of Francesc Carròs on the left and Francesc Carròs's son on the right.

The chapel is presided by the image of Crist, made in 1946 by the Valencian sculptor Josep Maria Ponsoda. It is a copy of the old carving that was burned during the civil war.

At the entrance to the temple, there are two paintings given in 1966 by the local painter Rafael Fuster Insa: Transfiguration of the Lord and opposite Resurrection of the Lord.

Between 2001 and 2002, a rehabilitation of the bell tower was carried out with a mural decoration which consolidates the structure of the building. Finally, in 2015 a series of reforms were carried out, which consisted of an extension of the parish museum, a change in the pavement, the altar and the painting of the church at a general level.

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