Convent of the Barefoot Mercedarians of Corpus Christi

The Convent of the Barefoot Mercedarians of Corpus Christi, which adjoins the convent church, was built between 1604 and 1617 by Diego Pérez Alcaraz to house a community of Mercedarian friars. It is located in El Viso del Alcor, Seville.

In any case, only the convent's cloister and staircase are preserved, as well as the church's choir and the belfry, which were both added later on. The main altarpiece is a wood carving made by Sevillian carver Juan Cano in 1762 and not the original plasterwork one.

The door of the convent church is lintelled, flanked by angled pilasters with an upper architrave, frieze and cornice. The style is very simple and elegant, as required by the purist Baroque phase prevalent when it was renovated (completed in 1776). 

The convent's cloister has four fronts with six Doric pillars each, joined by semi-circular arches. The cloister's galleries are covered with half-barrel vaults with lunettes, supported by transverse arches, except for the four vertices (cistern arches). The ground floor is separated from the first floor by a continuous overhanging frieze and an architrave decorated with drops. The upper level is made up of alternating balconies and paintings. 

The Convent of the Barefoot Mercedarians of Corpus Christi has one nave covered by a barrel vault with lunettes and the presbytery has a lowered dome and a gabled roof on the outside. In the vestibule there is a chapel where we can find the statues belonging to the Brotherhood of Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno. At the end of the nave we find the high choir.