Iglesia de San Roque

Church San Roque, in the Borough of Tinajo, is one aspect of a building defined by two ships due to the uneven roof two waters. Chapel was built in the second half of the seventeenth century and benefited by the vicar of the island of Lanzarote, Guillen de Bethencourt.  A parish was built on the island on June 29^th 1792, by the prelate Antonio Tavira Almazan.

The building consists of two unequal spacecraft, two chapels, a sacristy ceiling with four water units, a toilet, a storeroom, a baptistery, small chapel, and other small units. In the rear rises a choir balustrade with a wooden floor, forming a second plant. 

The entrance to the church is through a door, which bears two illuminated ovals.  In turn, the baptistery is configured to access a lattice door.

The roof is Mudejar, with the presbytery ochava, wearing painted patterns that are predominantly turquoise, with white painted materials, which over time has become gray with ocher tones.

The altar area of the aisle has a white roof with a polygonal base, the eight sides are painted white and are decorated with green and beige.  The cover is cake, a traditional style of stone eaves to the side and a kind of painted limestone.

The walls are made of stone sitting in the factory with mud and straw on the inside and the outside has lime mortar or portland cement, the latter is the result of repairs and/or relatively recent reforms.

The access doors to the south and east facades are in a set of stone arches with red basaltic tuff.  The ship retains the gospel of the original stone floor, while maintaining the baptistry floor of mud and brick terrace on the top, which falls to the baptismal font.

In the fifties, with Pastor Juan Rodriguez Alvarado, the original pavement of the nave, was clay and brick. During these works there surfaced hundreds of human remains which were deposited in the ossuary’s Parish Cemetery which is attached to the north facade of the Church.

The floor of the hall is left a compact slab of stone. The area of the Sacristy, suffered an amputation a few years ago to expand the entrance to the Plaza de San Roque from the west, and is also the front of the old cemetery which was rebuilt a few meters behind.

The interior of the building houses a collection of pointed arches and Tuscan columns.  The main facade features a sundial, dated 1851, built by the resident marine Vegueta F. Fernandez.