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Oratorio de San Felipe Neri

The Oratorio de San Felipe de Neri in Toledo (Castile-La Mancha, Spain) is the only vestige that remains standing after the demolition (between 1771 and 1777) of the church Iglesia San Juan Bautista, given its ruinous state.

This Church was also called San Juan de la Leche (by a goat yard attached to its factory where they sold the milk that was milked there).

It was founded in 1125 and, with Gothic traces, was rebuilt between the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th century.

In the wall of the gospel the Oratory's main Chapel was built, built by Sancho Sánchez de Toledo.

Pisa, in its History of Toledo, places this chapel among the best in the city.

In the recent restoration came to light a Gothic polychrome.

Roman baths

Here, recently, remains of what were Thermaes Templarium appeared, pertaining to 1st century.

The important Roman past of Toledo (Toletum coined its own currency) is witnessed through its thermaes, which were scattered around the Oratory area.

A remnant of what could be the sacristy is a yeseria of good design with remains of polychrome.

References

Buildings and structures completed in the 1st century