chelb

Updated: May 2, 2025

At Silves or Chelb, for so the Moorish capital had been called, a bishopric was soon founded, but the cathedral, though many of its details seem to proclaim an early origin, was probably not begun till the early, and certainly not finished till near the later, years of the fourteenth century. It is a church of the same type as Santa Maria at Thomar but with a transept.

Walter Crum Watson - Portuguese Architecture