The Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Orada, located in the parish of São Vicente da Beira, was built around 1400, or even in the last years of the 14th century, since the chapel has an image of Our Lady of Grace offered by D. Nuno Alvares Pereira.
The chapel of Senhora da Orada has been enlarged and repaired several times, leaving little of the early temple. The façade of the temple, which was executed in the 19th century, has two registers, the first with a four-column porch that opens to the main door. This is framed by a bulging arch, without decoration, flanked by two shutters. The second record has a torn window in the center of the wall, similar to the first record. Laterally, it has two stripped decoration wedges. The building is topped with a triangular gable crowned by a stone cross. Inside, the temple has a carved high altar, possibly from the 18th century, and two side altars, also carved, which were placed in the chapel as early as the mid-19th century, coming from a Franciscan convent. The chancel is separated from the body of the chapel, which may be an indication of the alterations to the original plan, derived from the various reconstructions of the temple.
Throughout the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the chapel was successively adorned, so that to this day many decorative elements belonging to the original building. It is noteworthy, in addition to the sculpture of the anonymous stone of the Lady of Grace offered by the Constable, the alabaster altarpiece depicting the St John the Baptist Degolation and the Flagellation of Christ, the baptismal font built in the early 16th century, decorated with rigging, fillets and the coat of arms of the Costas, or the Manueline cruise placed in the chapel's terreiro, which features in relief a Cruz de Cristo and once again the coat of arms of the Costa family. From the 17th century, since they are already mentioned by Friar Augustine of Santa Maria in the Marian Shrine, they are the large images of Christ Crucified, Saint Anselm and the Lady of Orada.
The chapel of Senhora da Orada has been enlarged and repaired several times, leaving little of the early temple. The façade of the temple, which was executed in the 19th century, has two registers, the first with a four-column porch that opens to the main door. This is framed by a bulging arch, without decoration, flanked by two shutters. The second record has a torn window in the center of the wall, similar to the first record. Laterally, it has two stripped decoration wedges. The building is topped with a triangular gable crowned by a stone cross. Inside, the temple has a carved high altar, possibly from the 18th century, and two side altars, also carved, which were placed in the chapel as early as the mid-19th century, coming from a Franciscan convent. The chancel is separated from the body of the chapel, which may be an indication of the alterations to the original plan, derived from the various reconstructions of the temple.
Throughout the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the chapel was successively adorned, so that to this day many decorative elements belonging to the original building. It is noteworthy, in addition to the sculpture of the anonymous stone of the Lady of Grace offered by the Constable, the alabaster altarpiece depicting the St John the Baptist Degolation and the Flagellation of Christ, the baptismal font built in the early 16th century, decorated with rigging, fillets and the coat of arms of the Costas, or the Manueline cruise placed in the chapel's terreiro, which features in relief a Cruz de Cristo and once again the coat of arms of the Costa family. From the 17th century, since they are already mentioned by Friar Augustine of Santa Maria in the Marian Shrine, they are the large images of Christ Crucified, Saint Anselm and the Lady of Orada.
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