Igreja de Santo Ildefonso - Porto, Portugal
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[PT]A Igreja de Santo Ildefonso está localizada na Praça da Batalha, freguesia de Santo Ildefonso, no centro da cidade do Porto.[EN]The Church of Santo Ildefonso is located in the Batalha Square, parish of St. Ildefonso, in downtown Porto.
Waymark Code: WMCV10
Location: Porto, Portugal
Date Posted: 10/12/2011
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[PT]
A igreja foi reconstruída a partir de 1730, por se encontrar em ruínas a primeira igreja, e ficou concluída em 1739, sendo dedicada a Santo Ildefonso de Toledo.
A fachada é composta por duas torres sineiras com dentilhões nas cornijas, rematadas em cada face por esferas e frontões de fantasia. Por cima do entablamento ergue-se o nicho do padroeiro. Guarnecem as paredes azulejos de Jorge Colaço (1932), com cenas da vida de Santo Ildefonso e alegorias da Eucaristia.
A nave é de tipo poligonal em estilo proto-barroco, com tecto em madeira e estuques ornamentais repetidos nas paredes. Os altares laterais são obras neo-clássicas e os colaterais são de talha rococó. O retábulo em talha barroca é rococó da segunda metade do século XVIII.
[EN]
Prior to the building of the Church of Saint Ildefonso, a chapel, known as Santo Alifon, stood on the site. Its construction date is unknown, but several early texts mention its existence. The earliest known reference to the site and the original church is in a work by a bishop of Porto, Vicente Mendes, dated 1296.
The aged chapel, in danger of collapsing, was demolished in 1709, and construction began on the new church that year. The building took thirty years to complete, finally inaugurated and blessed on 18 July 1739. The first stage of construction was completed in 1730, when the main body was finished and the tympanum, bearing the date M DCC XXX (1730), was placed. The second construction phase, from 1730 to 1739, saw the erection of the two bell towers, and the façade and narthex were finalised.
The architect of the Igreja de Santo Ildefonso is unknown, though records exist giving the names of the carpenters, masons, and locksmith who worked on the building.
Extensively repaired following a severe storm in 1819, the church also suffered damage from artillery fire on 21 July 1833 during the Siege of Porto. Over the years the church has undergone structural modifications and improvements, including replacement stained glass windows in 1967, created by the artist Isolino Vaz. Nineteen graves were discovered in 1996, during renovation works to the narthex, an area that corresponds to the original chapel's churchyard
The facade is composed of two bell towers with dentilhões on cornices, surmounted by spheres on each side gables and fantasy. Above the entablature rises the niche of the patron. Trim the wall tiles by Jorge Colaco (1932), with scenes from the life of San Ildefonso and allegories of the Eucharist.
The ship type is polygonal proto-Baroque style, with wooden ceilings and decorative plaster walls repeated. The side altars are works and the neo-classical side are carved rococo. The altarpiece is Baroque Rococo carved the second half of the eighteenth century.
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