Our Lady of Mount Carmel (church)
Original title: Nossa Senhora do Carmo (Igreja de)
Carmo church in Funchal, built 1656–1660 for the Third Order of Carmel, which gave its name to its street and holds the island's only artistically notable mausoleums.
This church, which gave its name to the street in which it stands, was built in the mid-17th century. Captain Roque Acciaioly de Vasconcelos donated the land for the church and its adjoining houses; the chancel was built at the expense of the prior of the Third Order of Carmel, Pedro Gonçalves Brandão, and the body of the building at the cost of the brethren of the same Order. Work began in 1656, and the church was only declared complete in 1660.
The Third Order of Carmel was established in this city by Father Luís do Rosário de Vila Nova, whom the provincial sent to this island for that purpose. It had its seat in the church of the Convento da Encarnação (Convent of the Incarnation) and remained there until the new church was built.
The Carmo (‘Carmel’) church once had a small hospice (hospício or albergaria) attached to it, founded by Henrique Henriques de Noronha. Some Carmelite friars lived there, but we know nothing further about the existence and duration of this hospice.
On the side walls of the chancel of this church stand two fine mausoleums, the only ones of any artistic merit in the churches of this island.
A chapel with this dedication existed in the parish (freguesia) of Campanário (‘bell tower’). It was an entailed foundation (instituição vincular, a morgado or capela) and was built in 1658 by Domingos Rodrigues.
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Funchal
The Carmo church in Funchal was built in 1656–1660 for the Third Order of Carmel and gave its name to its street. It contains the only artistically notable mausoleums on the island.
- Campanário
Ribeira Brava. Parish with a chapel of the same dedication.
Campanário is a parish in Madeira, formerly part of Câmara de Lobos and later joined to the municipality of Ribeira Brava, drained by the Ribeira do Campanário (or da Lapa). The Elucidário records its landing, its band, its capitania-mor, its tithes paid to the Jesuits, a former chapel of St John founded in 1728, and the vicar sentenced by the Alçada of 1823. It was also the birthplace of Bishop D. Manuel Joaquim Gonçalves de Andrade and the jurist Francisco Justino Gonçalves de Andrade.
- Convent of the Incarnation
Funchal. Convent whose church housed the Third Order before the Carmo church was built.
A Funchal convent founded by Canon Henrique Calaça de Viveiros after 1508. Its chapel temporarily housed the parish seat, and a new seminary building was raised in its grounds in 1909. It was proposed as a site for the hospital, the asylum and the prison.
- Rua do Carmo
Funchal. Street named after the church.
Rua do Carmo is a Funchal street named after the church of Nossa Senhora do Carmo; it includes the former Rua da Laranjeira and forms part of the boundary of Santa Luzia parish. It was once named after Gonçalo Aires and was renamed in 1922 in honour of Dr. António Aurélio da Costa Ferreira. The street housed the Hotel Miles and the headquarters of Miss Mary Jane Wilson's congregation, and the artillery company sent in 1917 was quartered there.
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Builder in 1658 of the entailed Carmo chapel in Campanário.
- Henrique Henriques de Noronha1667–1730
Founder of the small hospice attached to the Carmo church.
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Priest sent by the provincial who established the Third Order of Carmel in Funchal.
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Prior of the Third Order of Carmel who paid for the chancel of the Carmo church.
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Captain who donated the land for the Carmo church and its adjoining houses in Funchal.