The church is recorded for the first time in a donation document of Alfonso III of Asturias in 905.

Declared National Monument in 1931, the church burnt in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War losing the roof.

This church has the construction style established in church of San Julián de los Prados: facing eastwards, vestibule separate from the main structure, basilica-type ground plan, central nave higher than the side aisles, with intersecting wooden roof and lit by Windows with stone lattice.

As a differentiating element, the apses were joined to each other through the dividing walls by semicircular-arched doors.

The bell tower, separate from the church like in Santa María de Bendones, does not belong to the original construction, and stems from an initiative in the seventies by the architect and great restorer of Asturian Pre-Romanesque, Luis Menéndez Pidal y Alvarez.