Project of the Evangelical Spanish Church, Madrid
1880. Albumen on photographic paper.Not on display
In the 19th century, there arises on the part of the Anglican Community the need to execute a church of new plant. Juan de Madrazo prestigious member of the Anglican Church, receives the order of realizing a representative church ca.1880. As Madrazo explains in the same project regarding the program (G4605): It´s spire has 113 feet of elevation, and of land a space occupation of 17,000 square feet, it will have schools for children of both sexes and foreigners, in which there will be 200 seats of each one. Under the direction of Mr. Juan de Madrazo, whose budget has been estimated at 50.000 duros soon. After this brief and concise explanation of the architect n his project, it is intuition that he would have been the architect director of the works, if he had not died on March 9, 1880. The idea of Madrazo is the effort to achieve architectural beauty, full of proportion and luminosity, through neo-Gothic architecture. The drawings of the proposals belong to the main façade, made from the same point of view, which exclusively frames the west façade and outlines the side school buildings. The solution finally executed for this church can be considered a case of perfect study of the Gothic architectural elements. In the case of Madrazo, the solution finally executed for this church can be considered a perfect study of the Gothic architectural elements. In the professional activity of Madrazo, and more specifically in this project, we distinguish the architectural movement that has been called neo-gothic rationalism, according to the lines marked by Viollet-le-Duc
Fernández Martínez, Margarita, Dibujos de la propuesta arquitectónica de Juan de Madrazo para idear la primera Iglesia Evangélica Española en 1880. Revista de EGA:expresión gráfica arquitectónica, https://doi.org/10.4995/ega.2019.10877, 2019, p.120-131