Hopes Cathedral of the Moorland could save Spanish village with single resident

Campaigners plan arts centre for magnificent medieval church to lure tourists and new inhabitants

Not for nothing is the parish church of the Spanish village of Villamoron known as la catedral del paramo - the Cathedral of the Moorland.

For eight centuries, the church of Saint James the Apostle has held out in the northern wilds of Castilla y Leon, a Romanesque-creeping-into-Gothic treasure that sits beneath a low sky, amid endless fields and at the edge of a village that gave up the ghost almost 50 years ago.