The parish archive of Santa Maria is the service integrated within the organizational structure of the parish of the Assumption of Our Lady Santa Maria d'Ontinyent where the documents that the parish itself and related entities produce or receive in the development of their activities, such as documents related to the administration of their assets.
Currently the Archive is in the Abbey House, located in the one in Plaça de l'Església no. 3, and occupies a large part of its ground floor.
Inside there are two different rooms: the consultation room that has a newspaper section, a small library (consisting of religious and pastoral books) and the personal collection of Don Blas Asensio Castelló; and the deposit in an annexed room, where all the documentation of the parish archive is kept and kept.
Documentary funds
- sacramental
- Government
- Pastoral Action
- Parish worship
- Property and income administration
- Special funds
- Built-in funds
Services and activities
- Consultation in the room and management of the parish website.
Most outstanding documents
- Index of parish curiosities.
- It is an anonymous book dated 1909 that contains a list of important events that have taken place in Ontinyent since 1540.
- This book has been digitized and is available on the Internet on the website of the Diocesan service of parish archives of Valencia.
- Quinque libri of 1616.
- The quinque libri of Santa Maria are a set of five sacramental books that contain data on: baptisms, marriages, deaths, communions and confirmations. The first preserved quinque libri contains the dates from 1616 to 1643.
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Address
Plaça de la Vila 3, 46870 Ontinyent, Valencia
