Santa Comba Chapel

Santa Comba chapel stands on a small hill formerly situated outside the city limits of Coimbra. Today it is part of the Campus III of the University, a situation that completely modifies the building's original context. The current chapel replaced a pre-existing hermitage, dating from the fifteenth century, erected on the spot where Santa Comba was martyred. It dates from the beginning of the seventeenth century (c.1612), according to the bibliography, which the visit to the site confirms. The building is in very poor condition - the porch over the entrance has fallen and its columns and pillars are conserved inside, in the nave.

The work consisted in bibliographical and documental recollection, in the photographic record and graphic survey of the current state of the chapel. In the second half of the year, a rehabilitation proposal was made for the chapel, adapting it again to the worship service and also to a meeting place for a group of Catholic students, reinstating the porch and removing all recent annexes.

• BORGES, Nelson – Coimbra e Região, Lisboa: Editorial Presença, 1987
• CARVALHO, B. – "A Capela de Santa Comba", Diário de Coimbra, 1989
• CORREIA, Virgílio; GONÇALVES, Nogueira – Inventário Artístico de Portugal, Volume 2: Cidade de Coimbra. Lisboa: Academia Nacional de Belas Artes, 1947, p. 192-193
• VASCONCELOS, António de – "A Ermida de Santa Comba", in Correio de Coimbra, 25-11-1926, p. 4
• SIPA | DGPC

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