São Jerónimo College

São Jerónimo College was one of the first university colleges built in the upper part of Coimbra, from 1565. The project was by Diogo de Castilho. Built upon the old city wall, it was composed (as other regular colleges, for friars) of a church and a cloister, around which were organized the main dependencies: besides the church, the vestry, the chapter room, and a classroom. Along the city wall other spaces were developed such as the refectory, kitchen, warehouses and the dormitory of the friars in the upper floor. In the 18th century, the baroque vestibule of the college was added as well as the magnificent three-ladder staircase, the most notable of Coimbra's colleges, .

After the extinction of the religious orders (1834), the building was transformed and adapted to a hospital, being one of the nuclei of the Hospitals of the University of Coimbra until 1985. It is now occupied by several university departments.

The produced material comes out of two different group works, developed in successive years. The first sought to reconstitute the college building, prior to the nineteenth-century hospital transformations, from the still-existing physical spaces, Vivian's famous 18th-century engraving, and the plans of the building made by Costa Simões.

A second work focused on the reconstruction of the missing church of the college, the vault of which was demolished and whose interior was filled with the several levels of offices that exist today. The reconstitution included the study of the documentation and the analysis of the existing architectural vestiges - the remains of two lateral chapels and the corners and cornice of the old temple.

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• LOBO, Rui – Os Colégios de Jesus, das Artes e de S. Jerónimo. Evolução e transformação no espaço urbano. Coimbra: Edarq, 1999
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• SIMÕES, António Augusto da Costa – Hospitaes de Universidade de Coimbra – Projecto de Reconstrução do Hospital do Collegio das Artes. Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional, 1869
• SIPA | DGPC

Trabalho do Colégio

Ana Rita Silva  ·  Ana Francisca Loureiro  ·  Leonor Mesquita  ·  Marianne Ullmann

2012/2013 

Trabalho da Igreja

Andreia Catarino  ·  Gonçalo Barbosa  ·  Maria Correia  ·  Nide Santos  ·  Marília Santos

2013/2014