Santa Clara of Pontevedra.

Documents of the convent date its origin to the XIVth century, knowing that in 1362 the altarpiece, was not yet built. However, the shrine, having a single nave and polygonal altarpiece, was rebuilt in large part during the Baroque when the cannon vault of the first was built.

The main chapel, with parallel front steps, has a lancet arch entrance, bent, of rectangular profile, having three semicolumns per side, with a foundation of mainly "pendulous" and animated capitals with monsters. The fan vault is covered with fleurons on the keystone and ribs of triangular profile that terminate in a rebate moulding along a thin “filete”, and rest on bent columns of animate capitals.

In the socle, below the wide lancet and slacken windows, there is a series of small lancet arches along its perimeter. In its exterior, the buttresses of the corners, with projections, have oblique lines along its sides.

On the outside, only the Wall of the Gospel is visible, on which after undergoing the Baroque reforms, the windows, eaves and Gothic frontispiece are preserved. It has lancet archivolts supported on two pairs of bent columns, without tympanum. In the interior archivolt, there is the bust of Christ the Judge showing his ulcers. In the other archivolt, on the side right, starting at the keystone, there is a figure with a basket-like tasset and a cane, Saint Peter with the keys, an angel playing the trumpet and a naked figure next to a monstrous head, all as a simple Final Judgment.
 

  

  

Dpto. de Composición.  Universidade da Coruña.