Description
Features a large 18th century facade, with the following initials on the gate: JATB.
The main room has a ceiling fresco dating from 1755.
The main baroque altarpiece was destroyed, the two side altarpieces collapsed;
The chapel is vandalized and only a few panels remain on the blue and white walls with scenes from the life of the order.;
It has a high choir with a balcony and a sacristy with blue and white tiles with branches..
Typology
Monastery, Religious architecture
Location
Coimbra, Montemor-o-Velho, Verride
Home Use
Religious/Residential
Historical Notes
The Canons Regular of Santa Cruz de Coimbra received the Quinta as a donation from Afonso Geraldes and his wife Belide Soares in 1194. The friars then built a convent, which served for the religious to spend some moments of rest and fun in the summer. In 1285, the farm belonged to the Convento de Santana, In the same year, it was sold again to Santa Cruz.
Although the architectural project of the 18th century is not known, you can check that it was incomplete, given that the great facade should end with another turret. The housing area has quality interior vestiges, like the cafeteria (maybe even from the 17th century) and rooms with excellent finishes of the following century. The chapel, despite having been partly stripped by recent robberies, it is of good architecture, with quality carved altars, good songs and, above all splendid tile paneling. in agricultural facilities (of great interest), we find details dating from the 17th century that can serve as a basis for a study for a relationship (in terms of construction finishes) with other monasteries of the same Order existing in the country.
Its connection to the Crúzios of Santa Cruz de Coimbra goes from 1285 until the extinction of religious orders in 1834. Despite its medieval documentary base, the building has features from the 17th century and above all from the 18th century.
CM based information – Montemor-o-Velho
5 Comments
It took a while but it was worth it.
Yet, was my favorite place “to explore”.
Photo Verride_14 has a ghost!
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It really is a really fun place to explore., always in the company of bats 😀
I really like Verride_5 and 9 🙂
It was worth the wait for your first post! Next time, I also want to go, he heard? And please post with less “delay”. 😉
a real perfect history book beautiful and remarkable places
It was impossible not to go to this place after seeing your work. However, I went on a very rainy day, which did not motivate me much to explore the Convent, because of the excessive weight of the woods flooded with water and the imminent danger of ruin.
The access I found was also not the most suitable – it was a side that overlooks some gardens, with a municipal road right next to it. I had a lot of brambles, but you could see the paths created in the vegetation to access the interiors.
tell me if possible, you can enter through the main facade? I'll be back there in the summer if I'm still standing. It is unbelievable the state of abandonment to which this country places its monuments and its memory..