Convento de Santo Tomás (Madrid)

The church's facade and dome, both among the most outstanding works of Spanish courtly Baroque, were made by the José de Churriguera's sons: Jerónimo and Nicolás.

The church's facade was monumental, distributed the access to the temple in three portals, features of the ornate style of the Churriguera family.

The cour d'honneur, two-story, made by José Jiménez Donoso, was considered one of the best architectural works of the 17th century in Madrid.

The convent building had several uses: it was meeting place for the Landaburian Society; was conditioned to be one of the first headquarters of the Ateneo, prison and barracks for the Milicia Nacional with modifications made by architect Juan Pedro Ayegui.

From what was once a Madrilenian religious and cultural institution only remaining a few works of its movable heritage: the excellent painting Santo Domingo en Soriano work by Antonio de Pereda which adorned the Chapel of the Marquis of la Lapilla, preserved in Museo Cerralbo, the Assumption of the Virgin, altar large painting painted by Francisco Ignacio Ruiz de la Iglesia for the Chapel of Nuestra Señora de las Nieves along with the Coronation of the Virgin now are in the Parish church del Corpus Christi in Seville and the sculpture of Our Lady of the Rosary flagship work of Luis Salvador Carmona, venerated in the Oratorio del Olivar.