Church of São Salvador (Trofa)

Church of São Salvador
Church of São Salvador
Parochial Church of Trofa
Igreja de São Salvador
	40°36′39.1″N 8°28′42.8″W / 40.610861°N 8.478556°W
Location	Aveiro, Baixo Vouga, Centro
Country	Portugal
Architecture
Architect(s)	Diogo de Castilho
Style	Gothic, Renaissance, Mannerism

The Church of São Salvador (Portuguese: Capela e Panteão dos Lemos/Igreja Paroquial de Trofa/Igreja de São Salvador) is a church in the civil parish of Trofa, Segadães e Lamas do Vouga, in the municipality of Águeda, in the Portuguese Centro district of Aveiro.

History

In 1499, King D. Afonso V made Gomes Martins de Lemos the 1st Lord of Trofa. In 1522, his grandson Duarte de Lemos, 3rd Lord of Trofa, ordered the construction of a funerary chapel in the parish of Trofa.^[1]

Between 1536 and 1539, the parietal tombs and statuary were constructed.^[1]

Between the 18th and 19th century the main body of the church was constructed.^[1]

In 1978, one of the legs of the "praying" statue was encountered broken.^[1]

On 1 June 1992, the property fell under the authority of the IPPARInstituto Português do Património Arquitetónico (Portuguese Institute for Architectural Patrimony), by decree 106F/92 (Diário da República, Série 1A, 126).^[1]^[2]

A conditional approval was obtained on 16 November 1998, from the civil parish authority of Trofa and municipality of Águeda, to expand and redefine the size of the churchyard.^[1]

In 2006, the parochial church of Trofa do Vouga was closed to the public since August, in order to precede with work to conserve, restore and promote the religious heritage; work began on 17 August 2006, then concluded in April 2007.^[1]

Architecture

The church is located in the town of Trofa, in a small, isolated churchyard slightly arborized and enclosed by wall, separating it from agricultural lands.^[1]

The plan of the church includes a long nave, with laterally-addorsed rectangular bell tower and sacristy, and covered in ceiling tile.^[1] The simple facade includes a portico crowned by niche, that includes statue and surmounted by simple cross, that two lateral friezes and a frontispiece, with corners in stones.^[1] The rectangular belltower, two-registers high, is topped by a conical ceiling, and includes a clock. The church is illuminated through windows located laterally along the nave and from the high choir.^[1]

Interior

The interior, comprised a unique nave with vaulted ceiling, with five framed sections that includes plastered decoration, and extends to architrave.^[1] Above two columns is high-choir in wood with balustrade, with a common access that provides access to the bell-tower.^[1] There are also two lateral doorways, a wood pulpit and two collateral retables with architrave decorated in wood.^[1]

The main chapel shelters four arcosolia linked by two structures that uniquely divided by two arches, covering three urns and ornate state.^[1]

The two tombs (to the left) are decorated with three medallions and busts, above arches with four columns and archivolts.^[1] The entablature of the two tombs are covered individually-decorated, triangular caps, with central medallion. Above these structures are two large windows, with semi-circular decoration in the interior.^[1]

The front of the retable consists of a two-register gilded wood structure with paintings under a central arch, that includes columns, statuary and three sections with semi-circular decoration.^[1] The design, which is sectional, is decorated with sculpted forms, that include heraldic symbols, vegetation, anthropomorphic, mythological and military forms.^[1]

References

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s Alçada, Margarida; Ruão, Carlos; Costa, Anouk (1998), SIPA (ed.), Capela e Panteão dos Lemos/Igreja Paroquial de Trofa/Igreja de São Salvador (IPA.00001042/PT020101180001) (in Portuguese), Lisbon, Portugal: SIPA – Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico, retrieved 3 October 2016
^ "Igreja de Trofa compreendendo os túmulos dos Lemos". igespar.pt (in Portuguese). Instituto de Gestão do Património Arquitectónico e Arqueológico. Retrieved 2 February 2014.

Sources

Lacerda, A. de (1928), O Panteão dos Lemos (in Portuguese), Porto, Portugal{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Baptista, A. de Sousa (1946), A capela dos Lemos na Trofa (in Portuguese), Aveiro, Portugal: Arquivo de Aveiro
Gonçalves, A. Nogueira (1959), Inventário Artístico de Portugal (in Portuguese), Lisbon, Portugal{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Correia, Azevedo (1975), Arte Monumental Portuguesa (in Portuguese), vol. 1, Porto, Portugal, pp. 26–27{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Borges, Nelson Correia (1980), João de Ruão, Escultor da Renascença Coimbra (in Portuguese), Coimbra, Portugal{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Craveiro, Lurdes (1990), Diogo de Castilho e a arquitectura da Renascença em Coimbra (in Portuguese), Coimbra, Portugal{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Dias, Pedro (1995), "Odart Framçes Imaginario: dúvidas e certezas acerca de um escultor do Renascimento Ibérico", Actas do VII Simpósio Hispano-Português de História da Arte (in Portuguese), Cáceres, Portugal{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[SIPA-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s Alçada, Margarida; Ruão, Carlos; Costa, Anouk (1998), SIPA (ed.), Capela e Panteão dos Lemos/Igreja Paroquial de Trofa/Igreja de São Salvador (IPA.00001042/PT020101180001) (in Portuguese), Lisbon, Portugal: SIPA – Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico, retrieved 3 October 2016

[2] "Igreja de Trofa compreendendo os túmulos dos Lemos". igespar.pt (in Portuguese). Instituto de Gestão do Património Arquitectónico e Arqueológico. Retrieved 2 February 2014.

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