The Church of San Francisco is a 14th century Catholic church located next to the San Lázaro park. It was declared an Asset of Cultural Interest in January 1952 and a national historic-artistic monument on 16 February of the same year, following a controversial move at the beginning of the 20th century.
The façade, in the Gothic style, has a rose window over a tornalluvias and a doorway with a triple archivolt centred with two buttresses and a tri-lobed arch framing a wooden door. Composed of pillars with smooth and fluted shafts with phytomorphic, zoomorphic and anthropomorphic capitals (as evidenced by the presence of a bagpiper), the doorway has a set of stone sculptures representing the Annunciation, which apparently marks the beginning of the spread of this type of theme in religious temples, mainly Mendicant and Dominican.
The church has a Latin cross plan with a single nave and three polygonal chapels at the chancel covered by ribbed vaults. It has a wooden ceiling in the nave and transept, which has pointed arches, while the apses are covered with a ribbed vault, the ribs resting on pillars with capitals.
The temple houses a main chapel presided over by a carving of Saint Francis of Assisi embracing Christ on the cross, a symbol of the saint's renunciation of the material world to follow Jesus. Below the main image are the seats that make up the choir stalls, which are fragmented due to the relocation of the church. The work dates from the first third of the 18th century and is reminiscent of the works of the workshop of Francisco de Castro Canseco. The panels in the background show several Franciscan martyrs as well as various devotions of the order (Saint Francis, Saint Pascual Bailón, Saint Louis of France, Saint Louis of Anjou, etc.), while the main panels display allegories, coats of arms and ornaments in general.
The church houses four sepulchres, all dating from the 16th century and in the Plateresque and Renaissance style: those of Gonzalo de Puga and his wife Teresa de Noboa, Juan de Noboa and his granddaughter Elvira de Noboa.