Chapel of São Sebastião, Lumiar
In Paço do Lumiar, an early 16th-century chapel built against the plague, with a Manueline doorway and a tile-lined nave.
Chapel of São Sebastião – Paço do Lumiar
On Largo de São Sebastião, in the old core of Paço do Lumiar, this small chapel was built at the beginning of the sixteenth century through the devotion of local residents, who sought the protection of Saint Sebastian against the plague. Longitudinal in plan, its main façade is flanked by pilasters and pierced by a Manueline doorway with an ogee arch, decorated with plant motifs, rosettes and crockets, above which a window and an oculus light the interior. It is crowned by a triangular pediment with a cornice, pinnacles, volutes and, at the centre, a stone cross. The bell tower is divided into two tiers: below, a narrow window and a clock; above, the bell. The interior, a single nave with a raised choir, is separated from the chancel by a round triumphal arch. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it underwent campaigns of improvement, notably the tiled altar frontals and the tile lining of the nave; in 1640 a chantry endowment was established here, whose property was the subject of a legal opinion in 1855. In the late twentieth century the altarpiece and the pulpit were restored. Listed as a Property of Public Interest in 1967, it has no visiting hours published by any official source.
Located at: Património Cultural
Address: Largo de São Sebastião, 1600-435 Lisboa
Opening hours: Visiting hours not published by an official source; public access not guaranteed
Coordinates: 38.772027, -9.173994
Buses: 703, 778, 45B
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