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Iglesia de San Salvador de Escuadro

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Vilagarcía de Arousa

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Silleda

San Salvador de Escuadro
36547 Silleda Pontevedra
Spain

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Built in the second half of the 11th century. It has a rectangular-shaped nave. There are crosses and arrow slits carved on all the walls, except the North one. There we can see a door with a lintel and a large archivolt. The jambs are decorated with small semi-spheres and two heads with fangs. They support a semi-circular lintel decorated with two iridescent flowers, one on each side of an almost quadrangular entangled design. The upper archivolt is decorated with a chequered design. Over the portal, and under a mechanical clock, there is a marble cross with an inscription in Latin: “Year 1900 – Jesus Christ – God Man Lives Reigns Prevails” On the outside, we must highlight the eaves’ brackets and a gargoyle located on the north side of the roof. Both the building’s walls and the circling walls are engraved. Close to the East entry there is a fountain and on the circling wall there is a stone sculpture that comes from the old Chapel of Santa Isabel de Penadauga.
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Architectural style
Romanesque
Landscape interest of the surroundings
Moderate
Description of the environment
Rural
Chronology
S. XI
Responsible body
Diócesis de Lugo
State of conservation
Good