Iglesia de Sant Bartomeu (Montuiri)

Religious | Montuïri

The 14th century church, renovated in the years 1755-1773, stands on a wide and characteristic embankment that the village calls els Graons. The facade is a high wall with a sober portal and rose window; the side wall has the category of main facade, with a portico from 1646, crowned by a medallion with the coat of arms of the town; on both facades, two sundials. The bell tower is of five bodies, with double windows in the superior body, balcony and octagonal tower covered by a dome on which another small balcony surrounds the lantern. The nave has a barrel vault over slightly pointed arches and lunettes; on the frets there are fabric paintings with gilded frames and floral drawings on stone. The apse has a trapezoidal floor plan, with a semicircular arch and a splendid pendentive with gilded striations. The chapels have pointed arches and ribbed vault. In 1954, the plaster was removed from the rose window of the façade and the windows; some of the canvases that used to cover the blinded windows, with paintings of prophets, Jaune Martorell, from 1775, are preserved in the choir.