National monuments 1Classified buildings
National monuments
Original title: Monumentos Nacionais
Lists the buildings and works of art in the Funchal district classified as national monuments or as properties of public interest under the decrees published in the Diário do Governo in 1940 and 1943.
1Classified buildings
– Funchal Cathedral (the Sé) (Sé do Funchal) was the only building regarded as a National Monument (monumento nacional), although there were other buildings that ought to have been included in that category. The Diário do Governo of 24 September 1940 and of 18 August 1943 published the complete lists of the buildings classified as National Monuments and as ‘properties of public interest’ throughout our country. As regards this district, the following were declared National Monuments in addition to the Cathedral (Sé Catedral): the São Lourenço Palace (‘St Lawrence’), the church and outbuildings of the Convent of St Clare (Santa Clara), the church of São Evangelista (the College) and the Customs House (Casa da Alfândega).
The following buildings count as ‘properties of public interest’: the houses of Dona Mécia, of the Consuls and of the Ornelas family, and the bishop's palace (Paço Episcopal) with its adjoining chapel; the chapels of Incarnação, São Paulo, Nazaré and Espírito Santo; and the forts of São João Baptista, the Ilhéu and São Tiago, all in the city of Funchal; the chapel of the Magi (Reis Magos) in the parish (freguesia) of Estreito da Calheta (‘the narrows of Calheta’); the parish church, the chapels of Milagres and São Roque, and the forts of Santo Amaro and São João in the parish of Machico; the parish churches of the parishes of Ponta do Sol, Ribeira Brava and Santa Cruz; and the chapel of the Mother of God (Madre de Deus) in the parish of Caniço (‘reed’).
2Classified works of art
The following works of art were also declared to be of public interest: a 16th-century baptismal font in the Mudéjar style, in the church of Ponta do Sol; and a wooden sculpture of the Adoration of the Magi, with thirteen figures in high relief, dating from the 16th century, in the chapel of the Magi at Estreito da Calheta.
The window of Columbus’s House, preserved in a private garden in the city of Funchal. It is a Manueline work, salvaged when the Municipal Council (Câmara Municipal) had the property of the Fleming João Esmeraldo demolished, where Christopher Columbus is said to have lived.
Paintings on wood: the panel of St James, placed on the high altar of the church of Socorro (Our Lady of Succour), Funchal. The triptych in the sacristy of the same church. The panel of the Apostles, from the same sacristy, placed beneath the triptych. Three panels (St Paul, St Peter and St Andrew) preserved in the sacristy of the church of São Pedro (St Peter), Funchal. Three panels (the Annunciation, the Nativity, and St Anne and St Joachim) from the new church of São Martinho, Funchal (placed in a chapel on the Epistle side). A panel (emblem of Christ) from the private chapel of Our Lady of Consolation (Nossa Senhora da Consolação), Funchal. A triptych (the Deposition from the Cross) from the church of Ribeira Brava, on the left side wall of the chancel. A panel (the Adoration of the Magi) on the left side wall of the nave of the same church. The panel of Our Lady of Protection (Nossa Senhora do Amparo) on the altar of the same name in Funchal Cathedral (the Sé).
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The Elucidário's list of buildings and works of art in the Funchal district classified as national monuments or as properties of public interest. The classifications were made under decrees published in the Diário do Governo in 1940 and 1943.
- Bishop's palace of Funchal
Funchal. Classified with its chapel as of public interest.
The bishop's palace in Funchal was built under the direction of D. Frei João do Nascimento between 1748 and 1751, and its main entrance faces the Largo do Visconde do Ribeiro Real. A 17th-century fire at the site destroyed the diocesan archive. The palace holds Netherlandish paintings, including a St Jerome, and an original parchment bull once hung framed there; it is classified, together with its chapel, as of public interest.
- Chapel of the Magi
Calheta. Chapel of public interest holding a 16th-century carved Adoration.
This Capela dos Reis Magos was founded around 1529 at Lombo dos Reis by Francisco Homem de Gouveia as the seat of an entailed estate, and its founders are buried there. It is classified as of public interest and holds a sixteenth-century carved Adoration of the Magi.
- Chapel of the Mother of God
Santa Cruz. Chapel of public interest in Caniço.
Chapel of the Madre de Deus in the parish of Caniço, classed as of public interest. It holds an altarpiece dating from after 1536.
- Church of Our Lady of Succour
Funchal. Holds the classified Santiago panel, a triptych and the Apostles panel.
The Igreja do Socorro is a church in Funchal holding Portuguese-school paintings. These include the classified Santiago panel, a triptych and a panel of the Apostles.
- Church of St Peter
Funchal. Its sacristy holds three classified panels.
The Igreja de São Pedro is a collegiate church in the parish of São Pedro, Funchal, where Padre Francisco de Castro was vicar and Manuel Soares founded a chapel. Its sacristy holds a triptych of classified panels, written about by the Visconde de Meireles and praised by Teixeira Gomes. It was also the seat of the confraternity supporting the Hospital de São Lázaro.
- Colégio church
Funchal. Classified as a national monument.
The Igreja do Colégio (São João Evangelista) is the Jesuit college church in the parish of Sé, Funchal, built after 1508. It was the starting point of several processions, the scene of the 1776 thanksgiving ceremonies and anniversary Te Deums, and the burial place of D. Francisco Henriques. It holds a 16th-century painting.
- Convent of St Clare
Funchal. Church and outbuildings classified as a national monument.
A convent in Funchal founded in 1492–97 by the second captain-donatary João Gonçalves da Câmara beside the church of Conceição de Cima. It is the burial place of the Câmara family and holds a 1447 document spelling the name 'Zargo'. It was granted in 1912 for a new hospital and was later chosen to house the archaeological museum.
- Estreito da Calheta
Calheta. Parish of the Reis Magos chapel.
Estreito da Calheta is a parish of Calheta municipality in western Madeira, bounded by the Ribeira de São Bartolomeu and the Ribeira Funda. Its parish church of Nossa Senhora da Graça was founded by the França family, and the entry covers its landholding settlers, chapels, localities, schools and irrigation by the Levada Nova do Rabaçal; Prazeres was separated from it in 1733.
- Fortress of São Tiago
Funchal. One of three Funchal forts (with São João Baptista and Ilhéu) classified as of public interest.
A fortress on the Funchal waterfront at the eastern end of the landing shore, dated 1614 during Spanish rule and rebuilt in 1767; it later housed a mountain artillery battery. Prisoners were held there in 1823 and 1828, the Republican flag was raised there on 7 October, and it fired during the 1916 bombardment of Funchal.
- Funchal
City containing most classified buildings.
The capital of the archipelago and seat of the principal captaincy, where settlement began; it was made a vila c.1451–52. Its bay, the widest in the archipelago, lies between Ponta do Garajau and Ponta da Cruz and offers sheltered anchorage, though its harbour had never been studied oceanographically. The Elucidário discusses it as a health resort with climate data and records the January 1906 disturbances, the Danish prince's visit in May 1846 and recent volcanic cones in the area.
- Funchal Cathedral (the Sé)
Funchal. Long the only national monument in Madeira; also holds a classified panel.
The Sé do Funchal is the cathedral of Funchal, in the parish of Sé. It was begun in 1493, became a parish seat in 1508 and a cathedral in 1514. It was the starting point of processions and the place of the vow to São Tiago, and bishops are buried there.
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The navigator Christopher Columbus, said to have lived in João Esmeraldo's house in Funchal.
- D. Méciad. 1693
Woman whose name is given to a Funchal house classified as of public interest.
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Flemish settler whose Funchal property, demolished by the council, yielded the Manueline 'Columbus window'.