Parroquia de San Andrés

The Gothic-Mudejar church of San Andrés is in the historic centre of Seville. It was built in the 14th century, with substantial refurbishment and extensions in the 15th, 18th and 19th centuries.

It has three naves separated by cruciform pillars supporting the slender pointed arches on which the wooden framework of the roof rests, as is typical of this style: the central nave has a high, gabled roof, whilst the side naves have lower, single-gable roofs. A large pointed arch at the end of the nave leads to the main altar, which is set very deep and comprises rectangular sections until the final polygonal part, with the usual polygonal apse with buttresses at the corners, which here, as in other examples, is finished with battlements.

Highlights include the main altarpiece, a Baroque work in carved and gilded wood from the 18th century that is dominated by an image of La Inmaculada by Jerónimo Hernández (1570), as well as other smaller altarpieces and paintings, such as the 17th-century Apparition of the Virgin to Saint Bernard, by Juan de Roelas.

It also has a simple but beautiful, Gothic stone doorway, consisting of the classical series of splayed and pointed arches, the exterior sculpted into diamond tips.