In the Spanish city of Guadalajara stands a Catholic temple dedicated to San Ginés that was constructed back in the 17th century. Plaza de Santo Domingo, presently the city's primary plaza, was once the market square and located to the south of the ancient city.

Across from the current Diputación Provincial on the Plaza de Moreno once stood the ancient parish church of San Ginés. After relocating from the nearby hamlet of Benalaque in 1555, the monastery of Santo Domingo (which has since disappeared) used the existing parish church as its temple.

In 1561, when the Dominican order was tasked with constructing a huge church, construction began. Although Archbishop Bartolomé de Carranza donated 1,000 ducats to the project, the original goals were never realised. That's why the existing church is only half as big as it was supposed to be.

The façade of San Ginés was to be of the "tapestry" or "altarpiece" type, with two great buttresses and belfries at the top, and a large arch for the entrance door, like Santo Tomás in vila or San Esteban in Salamanca.

The gateway in the massive stone facade is flanked by two massive buttresses that are topped with belfries. The coat of arms of the Dominican Order is above the rose window in the building's nave.

To add insult to injury, the gable was only half-decorated, with grotesques only on the arch thread and soffit, atop the buttresses, and around the choir window. The church's interior was completed with a Mannerist plasterwork decoration in the transept, a lunette-adorned side chapel, and a smaller trapezoidal main chapel with a barrel vault.

The interior features four outstanding pieces of funerary sculpture: the praying statues of Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza, seventh son of the Marquis of Santillana, and his wife Juana de Valencia, which were relocated from the abandoned convent of Benalaque; the tombs of the first counts of Tendilla, Iñigo López de Mendoza and Elvira de Quiñones, from the 15th century, which were transferred here in the 19.