Calape Church

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Calape Church
Saint Vincent Ferrer Church
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The church in November 2006
Calape Church
9°53′16″N123°52′12″E / 9.887712°N 123.870029°E / 9.887712; 123.870029
Location Calape, Bohol
Country Philippines
Denomination Roman Catholic
History
Founded1802
Dedication Vincent Ferrer
Architecture
Functional statusActive
Heritage designation National Cultural Treasure
DesignatedMay 9, 2023 [1]
Architectural type Church building
Style Gothic
Years built1933–1954
Administration
Province Cebu
Diocese Tagbilaran (since 1941)
Deanery St. Vincent Ferrer
Parish St. Vincent Ferrer
Clergy
Vicar(s) Rev. Fr. Nilo Pana
Priest(s) Rev. Fr. Johnson Inte

The Calape Church, commonly known as Saint Vincent Ferrer Church, is in the municipality of Calape, Bohol, Philippines. The church was established in 1802, the year the town of Calape was founded. Vincent Ferrer is the patron saint of the church and town. [2] The church was first managed by Augustinian Recollect missionaries, and later turned over in 1898 to secular priests. [3]

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The church was damaged by the 7.2-magnitude 2013 Bohol earthquake and restored in 2019. [4] It was designated in 2023 as a National Cultural Treasure by the National Museum of the Philippines. [3]

History

Calape Church originally had a stone foundation, with nipa palm roofing and walls made from tabique pampango, a thin partition wall made of interwoven pieces of bamboo or hardwood slats plastered over with a coating of lime mixed with sand. [5]

From being a church made of light materials, the construction of the neo-gothic style Calape Church started in 1933 and completed in 1954. Eliseo Josol and Rosalio Real led the construction of the church based on the design of Santo Domingo Church in Intramuros. A bell cast in 1690 was also installed in the belfry. [2]

Architecture

Aerial view of the church Mvcejas.stvincentferrer.jpg
Aerial view of the church

Calape Church is adorned with Gothic pointed arches. Its portico is made of a colonnade with white reliefs of interlacing arches, a base, and a defined capital. The arcade is embellished from the architrave, cornice molding, scrollwork reliefs, four-lobed motif circumscribed by a circle at each apex, and contiguous horizontal ornamental relief. The piers are extended to the pediment through pilasters of similar decoration that divide the facade into three vertical panels. The upper register bears intricate adornments, three pointed arches enclosing two rectangular glass windows, lintels, two pointed arches, and a circumscribed quatrefoil rotated by 45 degrees. Above the decor are relief decors. [6]

The uppermost register contains a pointed arch pediment with crockets and rose opening with ornate openwork. It is flanked by belfries bounded by pilasters culminating in crocketed pinnacles. Each belfry has valley roof upon which contains a rose window and below are a pair of arch openings with balustrade, and it terminates in a pyramidal roof. In the ground level the entrance reflects the ornamentation of the front-facing portico through pilasters and three blind arches, the middle one containing the entrance doorway above which is the statue of the patron and the other two flanking it with windows similar to the one found in the upper register. [6]

Cultural declaration

On May 9, 2023, Calape Church was designated as a National Cultural Treasure by the National Museum of the Philippines. [3]

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