| (In O Xobre O Maño, following the road to Cabío). There are not preserved traces from the original medieval structure. In 1545 the Monastery of San Martín Pinario transferred the right of this church’s presentation to Gómez Pérez das Mariñas e Xunqueiras. In return, this man would be responsible for the rebuilding and restoration process of the church in order to establish again the worship costume there. The present day temple is the third parish church built in the same place in August the 1st in the year 1723. According to the Act that was specially raised on this occasion, this was a relevant day: “a day of solemn procession, music, dance, fireworks, escort and moving of the Holy Sacrament and the rest of the figures, which were kept at the parish church of A Pobra, and solemn mass with its own sermon.” The sacristy (1730) and the bell tower (finished in 1921) are later works. The Temple has a main high capacity nave, a major rectangular chapel and the sacristy. The nave is divided in four stretches with blunt- arches that start in the walls; it is covered by a barrel vault that has been lowered build and it is now replacing the coffered ceiling. A masonry barrel vault covers the current presbytery. The front of the temple, in a baroque style, has a main door built under a triangular front that exhibits the coat of arms of the Xunqueiras family, who were the original founders. Flanking the front, we see a vault niche with the image of Our Lady of the Candelaria, the patron saint, and the image of St. José. Above the window, we find a break in the two stone sloping eaves giving way to a horizontal platform, at an upper level, where it was originally placed a bulrush before the building of the bell tower. Inside the temple stands out the baroque altarpiece of the presbytery, from the 18th century and later restored at the end of the 19th century. It is also remarkable the presence of a modern sculpture of the Virgin of the Carmen, rescuing two sailors from the a furious tempest at the sea. Due to the proximity to the church of the ancient Franciscan convent, which was destroyed in 1881, the temple preserves the stone statue of St. Antonio, which was placed at its façade. The parish church of O Xobre belongs to a wider historical complex in which, apart from the church, there were included the beautiful Rectory House (18th C.), the traces of St. Antonio convent office’s façade (17th C.) and the Celtic hill fort of the convent field in Punta Ostreira. Parish: O Caramiñal Place: O Xobre / O Maño Style: Baroque Century: 18th | |