Capela do Senhor do Encontro - Valença, Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Ariberna
N 42° 01.666 W 008° 38.724
29T E 529354 N 4652920
Chapel from 18 century
Waymark Code: WM18TGT
Location: Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Date Posted: 09/24/2023
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member fi67
Views: 1

" The chapela has a rectangular plan, with a simple mass and a gabled roof, finished with a simple eaves. The facades are plastered and whitewashed, finished with a frieze and cornice, with pilasters on the corners, surmounted by thin pinnacles on parallelepiped plinths, and a Latin stone cross on an acroterium on the gables. The main façade faces west, ending in a counter-curved gable, with a frieze and cornice, torn by a portal with a depressed arch, with a molding cut on the side, surmounted by an air slit, and interrupted pediment, on a back carved and decorated with relief cushions, by a quadrilobed oculus, framed in stonework; flanking the portal, there are framed openings with curved tops. The side facades are similar, with framed openings, also with curved tops, topped with a small cornice, with the left one surmounted by an iron structure supporting a bell. Blind rear facade ending in a gable. INTERIOR with walls plastered and painted white, lit axially by the oculus and slits and laterally by the two other slits. It has a high choir made of varnished wood, on two small corbels, with an access staircase, also in wood, arranged on the Gospel side, protected by a wooden structure and based on three stonework steps; the guard is made of a flat wooden balustrade. In the sub-choir, flanking the portal on the right, there is a three-lobed holy water font. Wooden floor and ceiling, in plaster, on a stone cornice. On the stonework pedestal, with three central steps, there is the main altarpiece, in polychrome carving, with a straight body and an axis, defined, externally by two twisted columns with a Corinthian capital and, internally, by two false pilasters, based on on plinths, extended into the attic in two archivolts, with a protruding closure; above these, the attic is topped with reused carved elements, cut out on the side and having a backrest in the center with cherubs, acanthus and the Maltese cross. In the center, there is a niche with a curved profile, framed and glazed, internally harboring imaginary. Below it, it has a sculptural representation of the Descent from the Cross inserted in a glazed dobby and flanked by an acanthus frieze. Parallelepiped altar covered in fabrics, with markings."

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Type of Church: Chapel

Status of Building: Actively in use for worship

Diocese: Valença

Address/Location:
Largo de Dr. Alfredo Magalhães 19-21
Valença, Portugal
4930-604


Relvant Web Site: [Web Link]

Date of organization: Not listed

Date of building construction: Not listed

Dominant Architectural Style: Not listed

Associated Shrines, Art, etc.: Not listed

Archdiocese: Not listed

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