Iglesia de Santa María del Temple (Ceinos de Campos)

The history of this monument José María Quadrado summarized in a few words: The town of Ceinos, poor, dark, reduced, possessed a jewel able to make conceited to the most affluent cities; and this gem have destroyed in cold blood, on a whim, on the edge of the road where, surprised the travelers stopped to contemplate.In Ceinos de Campos was the oldest encomienda of the Order of the Knights Templars in the Kingdom of León, cited already in 1168, comparable in importance to the Ponferrada and Faro.

Don Gonzalo Núñez de Lara, regent of Henry I, who opposed the enthronement of Ferdinand III of Castile, was exiled to Muslim lands.

The apse, with exceptional sculptural richness in its columns and capitals, both internally and externally; the tower, with two floors of windows, decorated its archivolts with double thread of quadrangular stars, it was covered with slate pyramidal spire.

Meant one of the clear influences of the domes cycle of the Douro, led by the Cathedrals of Zamora and Salamanca and the collegiate church of Toro, and extended to the later echo of Plasencia, in its Chapter House.

But in the absence of historical information, there in Ceinos de Campos was the pilgrim building, undoubtedly the most notable of the Romanesque Valladolidan (province).In 1799 the neoclassical architect Francisco Álvarez Benavides considered its demolition, but the attack did not hurt but some parts of the precious monument.