Santa Cristina de Lena is a small Asturian pre-Romanesque church about 16 miles (25 km) south of Oviedo, on an old Roman road. The infobox gives groundbreaking in the 7th century and completion in 852, and the text says only that some lattices and wall parts were reused from 7th-century Visigothic work. The article names no architect or patron.
The building is a single barrel-vaulted rectangle, 52 feet (16 m) long and 39 feet (12 m) wide, with four structures at the center of each facade. A western vestibule carries a royal tribune reached by a stairway set in one wall. It has a single apse instead of the usual Asturian triple apse, which the text links to Visigothic influence.
A raised presbytery is separated from the congregation by three arches on marble columns. UNESCO listed it in 1985, and the infobox lists it as inactive.
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