Sant Sadurní de Rotgers Church

On the corner of Borredà the track is in good condition, along the corner of Castell de l'Areny a bit worse

Sant Sadurní de Rotgers is a church in the municipality of Borredà (Berguedà) declared a cultural asset of national interest.

Description
The church of Sant Sadurní de Rotgers, former rural parish and later suffragan of Santa Maria de Borredà, is located within the property of mas Torrents, in the northern sector of the municipality, in a wooded and unpopulated area, difficult to access. The church stands at an altitude of 976 m, on the back of a small mountain, where remains of an ancient medieval settlement have been found.[1]

The church is a small building with a nave, covered with a slightly pointed barrel vault and topped to the east by a semicircular apse, defectively fitted to the nave, and responds to two different constructive moments. The nave, made of well-hewn ashlars in regular rows, is covered with a pointed vault and stone slabs. Above the nave was built the two-story tower bell tower with semicircular arch openings on the first level and twin openings on the second. Around the church there is a dry stone wall that closes the perimeter of what was, until the beginning of the s. XX, the cemetery.[2] The nave was redone in the twelfth century and attached to the apse of the eleventh century, which is decorated externally with arches and Lombard bands and a frieze of saw teeth, and internally with a frieze of opus spicatum. The coupling between the two is solved by means of a very peculiar fold, divided in height into two sections: one covered with a barrel vault (the one closest to the apse, which would correspond to the primitive nave), and the other with round quarter of a sphere, in order to gain the cover, much higher. The new building, consecrated in 1167, has a simple portal at noon and is crowned by the bell tower. From a typological point of view, it maintains obvious links with the church of Sant Andreu de Llanars (Osona).[1]

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