Work collected in: Fernández García, Noelia. De la reconstrucción a la renovación. La arquitectura religiosa durante el franquismo en Asturias (1938-1965). Gijón: Trea, 2021. 

The first news about Cenero is collected in a donation from Ordoño II, in the year 875, which was confirmed in the middle of the 11th century by Fernando I, to the church of San Salvador in Oviedo. Later, in the year 1270, Alfonso X the Wise granted the Fuero or Charter of Puebla to the residents of the Trubia neighborhood, in Cenero.

After the damage during the civil war, two sketches were drawn up, dated 1938 and signed by J. Álvarez, which could document a first step towards the restoration of the temple. 

However, in 1942, Gabriel de la Torriente Rivas, municipal architect of Oviedo in the forties and fifties of the 20th century, presented his restoration project for the temple. The result of his intervention gave rise to a temple that maintained its only nave, flanked by a place for catechism on its north side and by a portico on the south side. As for its interior, the Renaissance vaulted appearance was maintained, although it was decided to demolish the side arches to enlarge the openings, which would become neo-Romanesque, removing the "ugly-looking" oculi. To do this, he chose to have an articulated system with reinforced concrete arches to which he attached stone arches in the interior due to the structural problems that the exclusive use of tuff stone would cause, as well as a tile flooring on a layer of concrete.

Although it is true that, in principle, the outer portico was not going to be rebuilt, such a decision had to be made due to eminently functional issues.

Fernández García, Noelia. «Re-conociendo el patrimonio religioso asturiano. Restauración y reconstrucción tras la Guerra Civil». Gremium-Editorial Restauro, 11 (2019): 12-20.