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The statue that "can now be visited in the Temporary Exhibition Room of the Municipal Archaeological Museum of Lorca" has been subjected to cleaning and conservation work and a support has been developed for its correct display. The Councilor for Culture of the Lorca City Council, María Ángeles Mazuecos, has announced the end of the restoration work on the sculpture of San Bartolomé ". Mazuecos has reported that "the sculpture of San Bartolomé can now be visited in the Temporary Exhibition Room of the Municipal Archaeological Museum of Lorca after the restoration work carried out on the carving of the saint." The mayor explained that "it is a sculpture of good workmanship, with a height of 0.79 meters, made in a round bulk and carved in polychrome sandstone, which does not conserve neither the head nor the arms.

The presence of the The forked tail of a figure, possibly a dragon, devil or she-devil, arranged at its feet and the beginning of the chain that held it with the right hand seem to indicate that it is the figure of Saint Bartholomew.

" Mazuecos Moreno has detailed that "the saint wears a tunic tied at the waist by a cord with marked folds and a wide neckline and presents the left leg slightly bent and the left foot thrown back." The Councilor for Culture has specified that "the carving had serious deterioration in its structure, lacking the head, arms and polychromy, so that for its proper conservation and exhibition an action has been necessary that has focused on cleaning and conservation and which has been carried out by Engracia Molina Manzanares ". "Also, for its display, a support has been designed, made by Paca Molina Manzanares, which guarantees its stability and allows a correct display and conservation for which, in addition, the hand has been anchored". María Ángeles Mazuecos recalled that "the sculpture, an anonymous work whose aesthetic and stylistic characteristics allow its execution to be framed in the first half of the 16th century, was found in the church of San Patricio, inside the earth fill under the staircase of the portal that opens onto Abad de los Arcos street, during the archaeological excavations that were carried out on the occasion of the rehabilitation of the church after the May 2011 earthquakes ".

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca