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Convento do Beato
The primitive convent, built by D. Afonso V, in compliance with a testamentary disposition from his wife, Queen D. Isabel, was founded by the Secular Canons of S. João Evangelista, in the middle of the century. XV.
Rua do Beato, 48
Lisboa
Description
The new temple, of Mannerist and Baroque architecture, is classified as a Property of Public Interest. Its interior housed the pantheon of the Condes de Linhares family in the new chancel, completed already in the 19th century. XVII.
Having resisted the 1755 earthquake, it was destroyed by fire, at the end of the century. XVIII, to which only the kitchen, the refectory and the novitiate escaped. With the extinction of religious orders, in 1834, the church was sacked, deprived of its carved ornaments, pictorial productions and liturgical implements. What was left of this convent, already owned by individuals and adapted to other functions, has been the subject of recovery campaigns, namely the cloister. A fire, which occurred on the night of 28 July 2004, destroyed about 70% of the building. The recovery works ended in May 2005.
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