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Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Purificación, Escamilla

church building in Guadalajara Province, Spain

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ5117772 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Church of la Purificación (Spanish: Iglesia de la Purificación) is a church located in Escamilla, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1979.

The church is best known for its Baroque bell-tower or Giralda. The church itself was built in a Renaissance style. The retablo dates from the 16th century.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Purificación, Escamilla” as church building in Guadalajara Province, Spain. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Iglesia, Nuestra and Señora can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as church building in Guadalajara Province, Spain. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5117772. Authority coordinates are 40.549, -2.562. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1979.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Purificación, Escamilla”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Purificación, Escamilla primary sources, Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Purificación, Escamilla archive and Iglesia research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Purificación, Escamilla”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Purificación, Escamilla” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.