Igreja Matriz de São Jorge

The largest Baroque church in the Autonomous Region of Madeira, built in the seventeenth century in the parish of São Jorge. Its main front faces north and its window arrangement is unusual in the regional typology: the portal is topped by three sill windows and, in the tympanum, by another window flanked by pilasters carrying a straight cornice. The longitudinal plan holds a single nave and a lower, narrower chancel, with a square bell tower. At the head of the nave, the presbytery is marked by a rosewood balustrade curving at the sides; the altarpieces are in Joanine gilded carving, and there are paintings on canvas.