The Chapel of Our Lady of Ribeira, located in the Parish of Quintanilha, was erected in the second quarter of the thirteenth century.
The great structural alterations and, above all, the decorative program of the Chapel of Senhora da Ribeira date back to the first half of the 16th century, when part of the planimetry was altered and a set of murals of high quality were executed. The main altarpiece is already from the sixteenth century.
The chapel, with longitudinal plan, presents main façade in gable, truncated by the arrangement of a double bell, with portal in pointed arch with several archivolts. The side facades have eaves, being torn by portals in a perfect back arc.
The interior space, covered by wooden ceiling decorated with paintings and carved motifs, is divided into three naves of six sections marked by the arrangement of columns and pillars. It has a granite pulpit on the side of the Gospel with the faces engraved in relief. The broken triumphal arch opens to the main chapel, narrower and lower than the body of the church.
The main chapel has in the center the altar with mannerist tabernacle flanked by four columns. In the wall of the tomb and in the murano cloth on the side of the gospel were discovered in 1978-1979 the fifteenth panels of mural painting on the Marian and Christological themes.
The great structural alterations and, above all, the decorative program of the Chapel of Senhora da Ribeira date back to the first half of the 16th century, when part of the planimetry was altered and a set of murals of high quality were executed. The main altarpiece is already from the sixteenth century.
The chapel, with longitudinal plan, presents main façade in gable, truncated by the arrangement of a double bell, with portal in pointed arch with several archivolts. The side facades have eaves, being torn by portals in a perfect back arc.
The interior space, covered by wooden ceiling decorated with paintings and carved motifs, is divided into three naves of six sections marked by the arrangement of columns and pillars. It has a granite pulpit on the side of the Gospel with the faces engraved in relief. The broken triumphal arch opens to the main chapel, narrower and lower than the body of the church.
The main chapel has in the center the altar with mannerist tabernacle flanked by four columns. In the wall of the tomb and in the murano cloth on the side of the gospel were discovered in 1978-1979 the fifteenth panels of mural painting on the Marian and Christological themes.
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