San Andrés de Bedriñana

This church, located on the left bank of the Villaviciosa estuary, preserves almost in its entirety the nave of a pre-Romanesque building, identified and documented in the archaeological work carried out between 2002 and 2004. It has a rectangular floor plan with a square, higher chancel, with a four-slope roof. The nave is covered with an exposed wooden structure, while the chancel is covered with a barrel vault with lunettes and the chapels with a groin vault.

Inside, the triumphal arch stands out, with two smooth semicircular archivolts supported by two columns on each side with capitals with rather crude vegetal decoration.

The nave is lit by five small windows in the pre-Romanesque style, the three located in the upper part of the south wall and those in the north wall are twinned, with horseshoe arches decorated with a simple groove, carved in monolithic blocks with small columns and rough truncated pyramid-shaped capitals on each side (no mullioned windows have been preserved). The fifth window, on the front, is of larger proportions, has a semicircular top and preserves a lattice with vegetal motifs.

The doorway is of great simplicity, with a semicircular arch formed by voussoirs and a plain moulding.