Estreito da Calheta
Estreito da Calheta · Calheta
parish in the municipality of Calheta, Madeira
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.
1Mentioned in
- Levadas — Parish watered by the new Rabaçal levada.
- França (family) — Where the family settled and founded the parish church.
- Calçada (Count of) — Site of his Conceição entail.
- Old Buildings — Its church was cited by Neale.
- Inscribed stones — Parish church with a 1791 inscription.
- São Bartolomeu (stream and landing place) — Parish bounded by the stream.
- Calheta (town and municipality) — Parish of the concelho.
- Levadas — Irrigated by the third share of the Levada Nova do Rabaçal.
- Fajã da Ovelha (parish) — Neighbouring parish whose entry discusses a similar origin of place names; it also gave part of its land to Prazeres.
- Magi (chapel) — Parish containing Lombo dos Reis and its chapel.
- Our Lady of Deliverance (chapels) — Parish of the 1858 chapel.
- Funda (stream) — Parish bounded by the stream.
- Immaculate Conception (chapels) — Parish of a chapel that was seat of a great entail.
- Industries — Makes curved tiles and jugs from local clay.
- Paul do Mar — Parish from which Paul do Mar was separated.
- Galé (point) — Parish on whose coast the Ponta da Galé lies.
- Homem — Where Francisco Homem de Gouveia lived and founded an entail.
- Estreito de Câmara de Lobos (parish) — Its entry explains the origin of the name Estreito.
- Conceição — Parish containing the locality of Conceição.
- Arco da Calheta (parish) — Neighbouring settlement also named after Calheta.
- Entailed foundations — Seat of the França and Reis Magos entails.
- Clocks — Its clock was given by emigrants from the parish living in South Africa.
- Fajãs — Parish containing fajãs.
- Calheta (parish) — Site of the Reis Magos entail.
- Capital executions — Parish where João Rodrigues Castelhano held sesmaria lands.
- Estreito da Calheta (parish) — Subject of the entry.
- Jardim do Mar (parish) — Bordering parish, dedicated to Nossa Senhora da Graça, to which Frutuoso actually referred.
- National monuments — Parish of the Reis Magos chapel.
- Our Lady of Pity (chapels) — Parish of a vanished 1641 chapel.
- Prazeres (parish) — The parish from which Prazeres was separated, and to which it was reattached in 1700.
- Câmara (José Bettencourt da) — Starting point of his final journey.
- Lombo dos Reis — Parish in which Lombo dos Reis lies.
2Chronology
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João de França founded at Estreito da Calheta one of Madeira's oldest entails.
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João de França died and was buried in the church he had founded at Estreito da Calheta.
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Francisco Homem de Gouveia and his wife Isabel Afonso founded the Reis Magos entail at Estreito da Calheta, with the chapel of the Reis Magos at Lombo dos Reis as its seat.
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A chapel of Nossa Senhora da Piedade was erected in Estreito da Calheta.
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André de França e Andrade founded and built the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Conceição at Estreito da Calheta.
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The parish of Prazeres was suppressed and reattached to Estreito da Calheta.
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The parish churches of Santo António, Caniço and Estreito da Calheta were built, bearing dated inscriptions of 1783, 1789 and 1791.
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D. Inácia Betencourt Perestrelo built the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Livramento at Lombo dos Reis.