A new parish church dedicated to San Lorenzo was established on a site formerly occupied by a mosque.
It was built between 1244 and 1300.
The church layout is in keeping with the characteristics of medieval churches within Andalusia: a rectangle divided into three naves with four sections, with an apse and without a cross aisle.
The walls are laid out in a manner that is repeated in other cordovan churches.
Its tower was originally an Islamic minaret on which Hernán Ruiz el Joven erected one of the most graceful towers of the city wherein the first two bodies have a square form, although the second is rotated 45 degrees.
The rose window, adorning the upper part of the gable, is also important, constituting one of the finest amongst churches of this period.