Fonte Arcada Romanesque Church

The Romanesque church of Fonte arcada retains its structure and some external remains, such as several corbels, the axial portal with a beveled frame decorated with a frieze of small spheres, flanked by crosses carved into the walls, which also appear on the sides and the back, where it forms a Calvary, with access via front stairs, forming a small podium. It has a Latin cross plan consisting of a nave, a low transept, two naves, in an unusual structure, divided by two powerful columns. The main façade has a gable truncated by a double bell tower, divided by a round-arched portico with a frame made up of the voussoirs of the arch, which is similar to the one in Lourosa. The façades are topped by a cornice, with a transom door on the right, and windows in a Mannerist style. The interior has a high wooden choir, under which there is a baptismal font on the Gospel side, with the pulpit on the same side. Wooden roofs, masseous in the nave and false barrel vaulted in coffered ceilings in the chancel. The markings of the arches are visible, and there are two Mannerist carved altarpieces, one of which retains its pictorial decoration and one of which has a canopy and an islet covered in Hispano-Moorish tiles. The main altarpiece is gilded in the national style and has three axes defined by spiral columns decorated with pyramids that extend into archivolts. It stands out for the perfection of its carving, with the intrados of the niches featuring bas-reliefs pretending to be draperies.