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	<title>Visita Iglesia &#124; Philippines Churches &#124; Historical &#38; Architectural Wonders &#187; belfry</title>
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		<title>Parish of St. Martin (Dumalag, Capiz)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[An indication that the first church and convent were constructed between 1600 and 1720, a record of an exemption of payment for the rent was found in Manila.]]></description>
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<p>An indication that the first church and convent were constructed between 1600 and 1720, a record of an exemption of payment for the rent was found in Manila.</p>
<p>Fr. Agustin Duran in 1883 constructed the present church which was a reconstruction of the previous one that was damaged.</p>
<p>Between 1866 and 1881, Fr. Angel Abasolo build or rebuilt the present church. The construction began with a fund of P300.00 and the expenses reached up to P50,000.00 by 1873. However, the church and convent were both destryoyed in 1875.</p>
<p>Measuring 70 meters long and 18 meters wide, the church is made of yellow sandstone. It has a front door and two side doors, massive buttresses supported six arched windows between columns reaching up to the roof.</p>
<p>The façade wall is decorated with small pilasters. At the left side of the church is a 5-story bell tower. The five bells found inside the belfry was brought by Fr. Ledesma Perez in 1881.</p>
<p>The interior resembles the pattern of a Latin cross. It had been retouched considerably and in the process, the magnificant paintings of Fr. Juan Carlos peeled off.</p>
<p>Rising up to the rectangular pediment are six rectangular pilasters that initiated a vertical movement and stressed by a slender, tapering six story octagonal bell-tower which offers elegance to the otheriwse dull surface façade.</p>
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