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Church of San Pedro de Ansemil

Silleda, Deza, Pontevedra

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Church of San Pedro de Ansemil

Monument · Silleda, Deza, Pontevedra

The church of San Pedro de Ansemil, in the parish of the same name in Silleda, is all that remains of a medieval monastery of Benedictine nuns, neighbouring the nearby monastery of Carboeiro, whose origins possibly go back to the 9th or 10th century, under Bishop Sisnando. The female community disappeared in the 12th century and was not re-established until the 13th or early 14th century, when the funerary chapel of the counts of Deza, attached to the south wall, and the north portal were built. The Romanesque temple, with a basilical plan of three naves and three apses, was completed around 1171; notable are its capitals and, above all, the exterior corbels of the eaves. In the 16th century the community joined the monastery of San Paio de Antealtares, in Santiago.

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