Igreja Matriz de Nossa Senhora da Piedade, Queimadela

Igreja Matriz de Nossa Senhora da Piedade

Adro, Queimadela, 5110-461 Armamar

Contacts and location

Address: Adro, Queimadela, 5110-461 Armamar
Coordinates: 41.08953, -7.74590 · see on map

The Igreja Matriz de Nossa Senhora da Piedade is the parish church of Queimadela, in the parish of Queimadela, Armamar municipality, and stands on the village churchyard square (postcode 5110-461).

The church's history is bound up with the village's autonomy. For centuries Queimadela was attached to São João de Figueira and was even a dependency of the mother church of Britiande, gaining parish independence only in the 18th century. The church is thought to have been built around 1748, when the village was made a parish of its own; one author gives 1746 and another 1748, based on the 1758 Parish Memoirs. Before the church, worship took place at least in the hermitage of São Lourenço. The parish history names the church as the main item of the parish's heritage, together with that chapel.

It lies about 5 km in a straight line from the centre of Armamar, at the western edge of the municipality, near the Varosa river. Apple orchards spread all around, covering almost all the farmland. No visiting hours are published.