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Friday, May 4, 2018

Visit the Parish Church of Pampilhosa

The Parish Church of Pampilhosa must belong to the first half of the eighteenth century.
The openings are rectangular, the main door is endowed with frieze and cornice and niche finish that two flaps accompany, in the niche S. Augustine of stone evokes the last patrons. The right side door shows frieze and cornice. The windows of the flanks are square and small, in the wedges are raised thick pinnacles. A discoid stele, sepulchral, ​​replaces the cross of the posterior gable. Inside the body are torn two arches for the altars.
The main and collateral altarpieces, made of wood, belong to the second half of the eighteenth century, have two columns and marbled painting. A canvas, in that, closes the dressing room and represents the martyrdom of Santa Marinha, being of the following century. The retable of the arch of the left is composed of several carvings of century XVII and XVIII; the one of the right of century XVIII, shows columns and supports in the form of base of Hermes.
Highlights are the sculptures of Santa Marinha of Gothic stone, small of centuries XV and XVI, simple are of wood the ones of Saint. Joseph, Virgin with the Child (Rosary), in the collaterals of average size of the eighteenth century, regular; Crucified Christ, great current, of the nineteenth century; Saint Anthony, small, of the seventeenth century. The baptismal font and one of Holy Water show Quinceanera profiles.
The processional cross, made of white silver, from the 16th and 17th centuries, shows flat arms and dark ends, knotted in an ancient urn, all surfaces decorated with interlaced strips.
The custody is of seventeenth century golden silver, of circular osierium with slight protruding elements, the surfaces are decorated of the current elements.

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