TRADITIONAL CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES

Description

The Church of Las Aguas was built between 1657 and 1690. Its typology is defined by the orders of Dominican monastic temples. It is made up of a main volume with a rectangular plan where the presbytery and the main nave are located, it has an annex volume on the north side that corresponds to the chapel of San Antonio.

Its facade is made up of two parts, the first part is a smooth one with 4 pilasters attached to the wall that frame the main entrance to the church, on the lateral parts of the facade there is a door and a window whose top in both cases are a cornice and on top of this, the second part corresponding to a triangular composition. This part is made up of two lateral bell gables that each house a couple of campaigns, topped by semicircular pediments and pyramidal or pinnacle finials.

Its structure is made up of a stone foundation locked with some earth matrix, load-bearing walls with a mixed technique in stone, brick and adobe, the side walls have arches walled in brick masonry. The San Antonio Chapel has brick walls. The mezzanine structure of the choir is made of wood. The roof system of the main nave is a truss in wood with a wooden framework of chusque mat tied with cuan as support for the clay tile. The vault of San Antonio Chapel is made up of camones suspended from the rafters and its drapery is made of plaster.

The carpentry of the temple is made up mainly of the lacework on the roof of the main nave, by wooden doors, windows, balusters and the choir railing.

Chronology