 For the Jesuits might have convent and church in Toledo was necessary to wait for the death of Cardinal Silica. With his successor, Fray Bartolome de Carranza, the opposition faded upon arrival in Toledo.
Its construction was delayed by more than 150 years, following its approach in the model Il Gesu in Rome, with its stone facade with a large window and sober decor with Corinthian columns framing of a giant altar as a niche Saints of the Company. The advocation of San Ildefonso, Toledo bishop in the seventh century is manifested in the relief center of the "imposition of the chasuble." This scene and brick towers are the only alignment with the environment. The imposing hemispherical dome stands out from afar, almost equal in height to the Cathedral and the Alcazar.
Among the architects who participated in such great work, all teachers of works of the Cathedral, Bartholomew Zumbigo and Salcedo was the author's outward appearance of the towers and the facade. The church was consecrated in 1718, without being completed its main chapel, sacristy and Ochavo with the relics, whose works were completed almost forty years later.
The interior, in keeping with the precepts of the order, is a Latin cross, with one nave and side chapels communicated with each other. The main chapel, covered with a dome and drum flashlight, presents a great altarpiece pretended dedicated to his patron saint The sculptures are made mostly of German Lopez, as San Jose and several of the apostles. The Solomon altarpiece of San Juan, located in the cruise comes from the defunct parish of St. John the Baptist, rehousing in this temple after the expulsion of the Jesuits from Spain.
Restored recently, the church is open to the public and offers the possibility of dealing face to face the slender tower of the Cathedral and cover the pan across the city from the two large towers with large openings on all four sides.
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