page_title: Church of Santa Maria de Abade de Neiva
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Church of Santa Maria de Abade de Neiva / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: Português: Igreja de Santa Maria de Abade de Neiva, em Barcelos.
context_page_description: The Church of Santa Maria de Abade de Neiva is the parochial church of the civil parish of Abade de Neiva, in the municipality of Barcelos, Portuguese district of Braga.
context_section_description: The church is located in a rural community, situated in an elevated area on the flank of a hilltop overlooking the national roadway (Barcelos to Viana do Castelo). It is encircled by churchyard, parochial cemetery, public gardens and small, short residential buildings.
  The plan consists of a longitudinal nave and rectangular presbytery, with the areas covered in varying tiled ceiling. The principal facade includes a portico without tympanium, but tall Romanesque entranceway consisting of four archivolts, supported by 8 columns with plain shaft and capitals with anthropomorphic and zoomorphic elements. Over the main door is a round oculus.
  The lateral doorways also have vaulted entranceways, but more in keeping with the Gothic style. At about halfway up the walls are small, simple slits, while along the lateral nave walls are Romanesque cantilevers, with sculptures of faces, fish, animal heads (including bulls and pigs), a series of balls and a post-Dionisic shield (on the north).
  In the interior is a triumphal arch with supported by two simple columns. The head of the main chapel is illuminated by Gothic window with four-lobed oculus. The walls are covered in lettering, that is almost alphabetic. Along the southern part of the church is a low, imposing tower crowned by pyramidal merlons.
caption: The Gothic portico with four archivolts
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