- Langreo Asturias Centre
- Address: 33900 El Carbayu. Ciañu
- Locality: El Carbayu
- Phone: 985 696 595
- Period: 18th century
- Management: Ecclesiastical
This Baroque sanctuary dedicated to Nuestra Señora del Carbayu, built in the 18th century, underwent successive remodelling at different times and may well have had a Romanesque origin.
It consists of a single rectangular nave, made up of three sections from different periods as a result of successive additions. It has an open portico on the north and south sides that rests on Tuscan sandstone columns.
Inside, the nave is covered with a false ceiling, while the first section of the chancel is covered with a ribbed groin vault, the second with a barrel vault with lunettes and the sacristy with a half-sphere dome decorated with paintings.
The façade is made of fine sandstone ashlar, the doorway is linteled with ear mouldings, flanked by fluted pilasters with a purist frieze of metopes and triglyphs, topped by a curved split pediment with a central niche containing the image of the Virgin.
The belfry has three levels: the first, as a plinth, is a blind body, the second has double arches for the belfry and is finished off with a third level with a semicircular opening that houses a third bell. The sides are finished off with slender pyramidal bodies.
