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A small basilica church with three naves and a semicircular apse. It is oriented from north to south, with the main façade to the north. To the west it is connected by an intermediate body to a building that is a Noucentista-style house; on the other hand, its eastern side is free. Both buildings form a well-integrated whole.
The church is made, on the outside, of unpolished stone cut into regular ashlars with which the whole construction is made, so that its ornamentation is an inherent part of it. From a stylistic point of view, it is an eclectic building where neo-Romanesque and neo-Gothic elements are combined in a personal reinterpretation that gives it a modern look, with the traditional basilica design, in plan and section, recovered from the Renaissance.
The main façade is stepped, becoming lower towards the top due to the section marked by the central nave and the two lower side naves. It ends in a slight stylisation with the help of the bell gable with two openings that crowns the façade. It is marked by an axis of symmetry on which the semicircular arched entrance portal appears, with an archivolt decorated with square geometric motifs. The imposts form a word on the right and left that make up the name Domus Domini. The door is made of riveted wood.
A slender, ornate window follows the axis, finished with an openwork arch with a rose window in the tympanum. It illuminates and colours the interior thanks to a polychrome stained glass window that forms very particular waves ornamented with red roses. Below there is a barbican or machicolation, supported by corbels, which serves to protect the doorway. On either side of this central axis, now in the section corresponding to the small naves, there are two more windows in the form of a large loophole with a lobed arch profile. More rustic and protruding features are arranged in its profile.
The closure is a stained glass window similar to the central one and is protected by a vertical wrought iron bar decorated with fleurons. The side façades are almost blind and are decorated with a rhythm of corbel cornices on two levels, corresponding to the height of the naves, and are covered with gable roofs. On the eastern side there is a second, simpler door with a semicircular arch and a stone gable.
The apse is at the southern end of the main nave, with a series of semi-circular arched and splayed windows along the upper part of the semi-circular perimeter, which illuminate the interior through small cloisters with polychromatic stained glass, forming groups of three in each of the arches. It has a semi-conical roof. The altar is also illuminated by a circular oculus located in the southern end wall of the nave. All the openings filter a polychromatic light through their magnificent stained glass windows, giving the interior a magical air. The central nave is covered by a pointed vault and the arches supporting the side naves are also pointed, with decorated brick capitals.
The walls are plastered and painted, with elements in relief of exposed reddish brick, and with stuccoed and painted decorations in the apse. Above the vestibule there is a mezzanine for the choir, which is accessed by a very narrow and steep staircase on each side. It is protected by a highly ornamented wrought iron railing.
At the end of the left aisle, right next to the altar, there is an area enclosed by a gate, also made of highly decorated ironwork. Inside is the monstrance and it is illuminated by a polychrome window in the wall at the end of the aisle. The other side aisle is used as a sacristy and is closed off. Opposite it, there is a small altar dedicated to the Virgin. Another element to highlight is a stone baptismal font with a cylindrical section and a conical lid.
This church, dedicated to the Sacred Heart, was built following the establishment of the Coromina textile colony. Also known as the Pericas factory, it is located at the end of the municipality of Torelló, under Conanglell. The colony was created on the site of an old mill in 1874. The church, as the portal indicates, was built, or rather finished, in 1906. This was one of the first works designed by the architect Pericas i Morros, who worked within a hybrid aesthetic that revolved around unpolished stone solutions.
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