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References accompanying the Painzela account mention an obligation connected with the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Conceição, dated 1656. Another, from 1735, concerns the establishment of the chapel of São Gonçalo and an obligation to its fabric fund.
These dates belong to documents. The municipal heritage introduction assigns 1662 to the São Gonçalo chapel at Casa de Cimo de Vila: these are different kinds of information that should not be merged into one construction date. Reading sources also involves asking what each record is actually dating.
Three dates, three questions
It opens every moment and discovers what the date represents.
1656
Documentary reference to the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Conceição.
1662 · A date assigned to the building
The municipal presentation dates from the chapel of São Gonçalo da Casa de Cimo de Vila.
1735 · Institution and maintenance
The archive refers to the institution of a chapel of São Gonçalo and an obligation to its factory.
Source and context
Municipality — Parish memories of Painzela (1758)
Municipality — assets of Painzela
Accessed: . Editorial summary; the date of consultation is not the date of the facts.