It is a temple with a single nave with a transept and three semicircular apses, fronts and a steeple bell tower built after the original factory (12th-13th century).
At the head we find the central apse which is semicircular in plan, while the apsidioles do not reach the semicircle.
The openings in the old part are double-sided, there are two in the southern side wall of the nave and another in the southern wall of the transept, and also one in the central apse.
In the frontispiece there is a window of two double-sloped arches.
The vault of the nave is a barrel vault, as well as the cross, while the apse vault is a quarter sphere.
The device is very variable, we can say that in the oldest part there is a predominance of material almost without roughing, of many sizes and dimensions; while on the front it is of well-spaced ashlars, calissa, forming regular rows.
Above the facade rises a steeple bell tower with two arcades with a round point while the roof has two wings, the cornice of the nave and the transept protruding.
The church of Sant Pere d'Albanyà had been that of the old monastery founded in the first quarter of the 9th century (820-825), it became the property of Santa Maria d'Arles.
Badia i Homs believes that the current church would refer to a 10th-century construction consecrated, in 957, by Bishop Arnulf of Girona when the church of Santa Maria d'Arles was handed over to the abbey of Moissac, in 1078, Sant Pere d'Albanyà would also pass there.
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